Friends, please share your views on this issue. To the seniors, have you ever felt that you are only talking about markets even with your partners or even to friends when you visit or they visit you? If addiction is possible, how do you address it?
Quoting from a Huffington post,
The experiment is simple. Put a rat in a cage, alone, with two water bottles. One is just water. The other is water laced with heroin or cocaine. Almost every time you run this experiment, the rat will become obsessed with the drugged water, and keep coming back for more and more, until it kills itself.
The advert explains: “Only one drug is so addictive, nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it. And use it. And use it. Until dead. It’s called cocaine. And it can do the same thing to you.”
But in the 1970s, a professor of Psychology in Vancouver called Bruce Alexander noticed something odd about this experiment. The rat is put in the cage all alone. It has nothing to do but take the drugs. What would happen, he wondered, if we tried this differently? So Professor Alexander built Rat Park. It is a lush cage where the rats would have colored balls and the best rat-food and tunnels to scamper down and plenty of friends: everything a rat about town could want. What, Alexander wanted to know, will happen then?
In Rat Park, all the rats obviously tried both water bottles, because they didn’t know what was in them. But what happened next was startling.
The rats with good lives didn’t like the drugged water. They mostly shunned it, consuming less than a quarter of the drugs the isolated rats used. None of them died. While all the rats who were alone and unhappy became heavy users, none of the rats who had a happy environment did.
Addiction is bad. Learning, participation and excellence is definitely healthy and the way to prosper, in any field.
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The biggest addiction on the planet is monthly salary. so it doesnt matter if you are addicted to trading in a positive way.
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Hahaha. No monthly salary, no trading 
.1 % of all Zerodha’s client are on tradingqna, from there 99% active users are traders, from there only one person (thats me 
) is an investor. So yeah you can conclude how much trading is addictive.
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How can you be so sure that only 0.1% are Zerodha users? I am also an investor.
0.1% are using tradingqna forum I am not saying they are traders, Investors usually dont come to this forum and post comments I am the exception, I never ever done any trading in my life.
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How do we get the rest of the Zerodha clients to be active on TradinQnA? Any suggestions?
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This is very good topic, isn’t it more related to risk and reward and so addiction?
Yes, I was Very Much Addicted While I started Trading.
Instead of Watching movies, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead I started Watching Business News Channels, Started Reading bookes Related to Technical Analysis.
Started Watching Business related Interviews on YouTube. 24/7 Market was in my Head. Charts & Price movement.
I used to talk about market with my Friends & Family that how this market work, how quickly market change trend.
I tell my Friends those who are working in TCS & Infosys that guys Today’s is your company Quarterly Results but They are Least Interested.
And After Learning ABCD of Market This Addiction of Market Started Increasing more as my Profit Started to Increase day by day.
Can’t Explain in words how Addicted I was for market.
Now, Everything is Normal.
Now, I don’t get panic If I see the Stock is falling rapidly Or The Stock has Jumped Rs.20-30.
It all came with experience.
Still I am Learning and I feel learning is good for everyone. The day you think you know everything about market. The Market will show you who is King. Keep your ego side while Trading. You Get the opportunity for few seconds only here. If you will greed you will face loss for sure. Keep your target realistic, To the Ground.
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And you are the one who created panic in TradingQnA with “Who will cover my loss”
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Maybe Mr nithin should give additional benefits to active users on this forum which may entice & bring more participants here.
Such as? 
Not to hurt anyone…just for fun
But the topic “who will cover my loss”, was on the top for almost two days.
Thanks to @Lets_Invest for that 
Such as extending the capping limit of free brokerage per month!! People will use this forum actively to earn higher amount of free brokerage.
Yes conditions of 60 day challenge will continue to apply. And if a user is active participant in a constructive manner then he can earn rewards like Coffee with our beloved @nithin !
And small appreciation gifts like gold coin.
hahah but put a lucky draw for gold coin by creating a list of most active users!!
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It’s Under Process and Zerodha is doing best to Cover my Loss.
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Visit my Profile and See My Read Time.
1.Provide Gift Vouchers Of Flipkart.
2.Provide gift vouchers of CCD.
3.Provide gift vouchers of Domino’s.
4.Free Brokerage for 15 days to 1 month.
5.Free API for One Month.
To Those who are helping Others here and are Deserving.
We are now talking about rewards… Q and A is an addiction
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