{"id":44200,"date":"2016-08-24T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=44200"},"modified":"2016-08-24T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:10:08","slug":"when-i-heard-the-learnd-trader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/when-i-heard-the-learnd-trader","title":{"rendered":"When I heard the learn&#8217;d trader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/merritt3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"merritt3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/merritt3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/merritt3-300x169.jpg 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/merritt3-768x432.jpg 768w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/merritt3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">When I heard the learn\u2019d trader,<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to buy, sell, and short them,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When I sitting heard the trader where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Till rising and gliding out I wander\u2019d off by myself,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sat down at my trading station, and from time to time,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Look\u2019d up in perfect silence at the markets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poems\/detail\/45479\"><em>When I Heard the Learn&#8217;d Astronomer<\/em><\/a>, Walt Whitman<\/div>\n<div>**no relevant positions<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &nbsp; When I heard the learn\u2019d trader, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to buy, sell, and short them, When I sitting heard the trader where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/when-i-heard-the-learnd-trader\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":43552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5105,5106,144],"class_list":["post-44200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-comments-2","tag-heard","tag-learnd","tag-trader"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When I heard the learn&#039;d trader | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/when-i-heard-the-learnd-trader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When I heard the learn&#039;d trader | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 &nbsp; When I heard the learn\u2019d trader, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to buy, sell, and short them, When I sitting heard the trader where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding ... 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