Dave Day is celebrated on June 14 to acknowledge the great works of societies' famous Daves, such as: June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ...
Dave reminds me, constantly, that "trading is 99 percent emotional," and since trading stocks online in real time with lots of his own money is like roasting marshmallows on the Hindenburg, he must keep his wits about him.
Day trading, like the right to own dirty magazines, the privilege of serving in our armed forces, is a fail-safe against the loss of individual freedom -- which for Americans is the same thing as collective freedom -- and for that matter is the only sure way to keep your soul intact.
Dave started trading with $80,000, some of which he parked in stocks he intends to hold for a long time, but most of which he began using for day trading.
That, combined with the force of Daves personality, and his innovations in music, made him a bit of an authority figure in the Village, and at some point the nickname, The Mayor of MacDougal Street (a major thoroughfare through the Village), or simply, The Mayor of Greenwich Village, stuck to Dave.
Dave also became a sort of guru for untold legions of aspiring guitarists of all sorts, who spent countless hours replaying his recordings particularly his painfully intricate guitar reworkings of complicated jazz and ragtime numbers, the most famous of which is the intimidating St. Louis Tickletrying desperately to emulate his precision and skill.
I had taken my Atlanta-purchased LP of Dave Van Ronk: Folksinger, across which he scrawled an illegible signature and complimented for its rather pristine condition, seemingly ignoring my comment that I had driven four hours to attend the performance, which was true (he had driven much further, after all!).
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