Smart drugs for discretionary traders

[Zenyatta]

I've always viewed sleep as an important function else nature wouldn't require it! You know death is bloody annoying, but when you think about it; not many species have survived without it!

Sleep, Aging, Disease, Death etc, all these things are getting in the way of our personal development. We need to get rid of all of them.

[superfrank]

You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mils of diazepam on you, it will do something else to your brain. You will make it low. Why trust one drug and not the other? That's politics, innit?

Danny, Withnail & I
(one of the best British films ever made http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I).

[to75ne]

i think one should try everything once! i might give them a go!
discipline has always been my achilles heel, i'm pretty disciplined at financial trading but i do sometimes get caught up in the heat of the moment on the horses (it's got much better, but i know i've still got some recklessness in me). is that just me?
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if you do try these pills. let someone know who is sensible just in case you have a bad reaction. let someone check up on you periodically once you have taken the thing.

as for discipline i personally think its just emotions you have little control over that are in charge of your mind at any given time.

the only way i have found that is successful (for me), is to be aware of what causes you as individual to take silly risks, and then avoid getting into a situation where your emotions can get the upper hand, either using ba's features to automatically perform some action and or, you sense/feel you are "slipping" or the market is "shaped" in such a way that it is likely to "trigger" an emotion that will cause you to act in a stupid way.

[Iron]

just read that frank and googled modafinil. you can buy 10 tablets for £25 plus £3 postage and packing on line.

Personally, I wouldn't...

You hear about people buying prescription drugs online, and ending up taking something that makes them sterile or lose their hair!

Jeff

[to75ne]

just read that frank and googled modafinil. you can buy 10 tablets for £25 plus £3 postage and packing on line.

Personally, I wouldn't...

You hear about people buying prescription drugs online, and ending up taking something that makes them sterile or lose their hair!

Jeff

100% in agreement.

[superfrank]

no am not gonna take them, but might consider trying if they were properly tested and licenced.

[Iron]

I got the impression from the article in Gnorwell's link that they are available on prescription, so presumably they are.

Jeff

no am not gonna take them, but might consider trying if they were properly tested and licenced.

[lewismbet]

Like anything else, these are a tool [for non-medically prescribed people - not narcolepsy...]. They can be used and abused. Wish to gain some focus and the ability to go without sleep for a while then try them. Just be sure to eat enough and drink enough water. Also avoid excessive caffeine. Clearly if you attempt to string together too many days without sleep you will suffer. I view these sorts of things similar to caffeine. You cannot increase total 'energy' however you can concentrate it just now and stay awake longer just expect there to be a crash where you have to 'payback' the sleep you missed.

For something less extreme look into 'nootropics' such as the racetrams and DMAE.

[Zenyatta]

You know death is bloody annoying

Thats why we're eliminating it.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2011) — Scientists have recently succeeded in rejuvenating cells from elderly donors (aged over 100). These old cells were reprogrammed in vitro to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and to rejuvenated and human embryonic stem cells (hESC): cells of all types can again be differentiated after this genuine "rejuvenation" therapy.

"Our strategy worked on cells taken from donors in their 100s. The age of cells is definitely not a reprogramming barrier."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 120605.htm

[kurgan]

I would not take the observations of a few self-selecting students as gospel. Who knows what else they were taking in tandem: booze for sure.
I have researched these drugs before and taken correctly they do work. Among other groups, they are given to armed forces units, including UK, to keep the guys alert on long jobs. The side effects do not seem to be very serious.
I live on the Spanish border in South West France. It should be easy enough to get them in a Spanish Pharmacia.

I will keep you posted!

[lilgreenback]

I have researched these drugs before and taken correctly they do work. Among other groups, they are given to armed forces units, including UK, to keep the guys alert on long jobs. The side effects do not seem to be very serious.

I will keep you posted!

Have you seen the film Jacobs Ladder? wierd stuff, but along similar lines troops being given drugs to make them aggressive and keep them awake.

[convoysur]

Hi All
All this talk about performance inhancing drugs,
the natural way is the best. im a recovering drug addict and alcoholic,and ive found the best to be fish oil ,and thiamin,these alone have worked miracles for me,
Marc ,,

[Iron]

I think there's also a lot to be said for getting a natural high from simple things like being passionate about whatever you do and living in the now, rather than worrying about the past or the future.

Jeff

the natural way is the best.

[Iron]

I actually asked my doctor about modofinil, as I've been having insomnia recently. He said it was a psycho-stimulant, and basically worked the same way ecstacy works! He was (surprise surprise!) unwilling to prescribe it to me, saying he'd only consider prescribing it for a patient who was suffering from narcolepsy (falling asleep during the day)!

Jeff

[lewismbet]

Not that I would condone such behaviour but I believe modalert / modafinil can be bought through google very easily in the UK.

Naturally disclaimers about buying anything you cannot verify the contents of online apply if you were to consume them...