10,000 hours to learn trading - Who wrote this rule?

Those who did the "10,000 hours", know why they did it. If they would clearly explain and proof it, it would mean that those who read it will save 10,000 hours, and will have it for free.

When I first started, I noticed emotion behind how ticks fly. That inefficiency is good for a few seconds of play. The summations of those emotions tick to tick builds up intraday sentiment/trend. That is why a large amount of screen time is needed. One could say the emotions of tick high low breaks, and a fractaling out those breaks that builds sentiment.
 
Watching the screen for 10000 hours will make you an excellent screen watcher. (You may go blind however).


I worry about this also. I'm going to build a projection room in the addition so I can expand out the screens. So not focused on things only a few inches away.
 
"DunningKruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is"

The Dunning-Kruger effect describes the posters on ET who think trading can be mastered in less than 10,000 hours of hard work.
 
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"DunningKruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is"

Everyone quotes this but forgets the second part which is where people of high ability suffer from illusory inferiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as lower than it is.
 
Everyone quotes this but forgets the second part which is where people of high ability suffer from illusory inferiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as lower than it is.


Yeah... I have this "problem". :D
 
Everyone quotes this but forgets the second part which is where people of high ability suffer from illusory inferiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as lower than it is.

Yeah but on ET low ability posters think they are high ability so they will ignore the first bit and only think the second bit applies to them. :banghead:
 
Yeah but on ET low ability posters think they are high ability so they will ignore the first bit and only think the second bit applies to them.

So we should first ask: are you a low or high ability?
Then we tell him/her which part is valid for him/her.
 
Actually, nobody did. It seems highly likely that its a misconstruction of Anders Ericsson's research findings that expert-level performance of the violin required 10,000 hours of practice: he also studied top level athletes and chess grand-masters and gave them the same 10,000 hours to expert level performance.

The 10,000 hours rule was then snatched up and mis-applied to all sorts of new projects that an individual might take up, and trading is just one of these. Ericsson never studied trading.

Have a look at these for a bit more detail -


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26384712

Let's face it, the rule has no evidence so its just another trader myth.

tomorton,

Yes, 10,000 hours is too much time to make the money trading. I do agree that screentime, experience, losses, trial and error is good. But noonne have this much time. I believe the right training from the start is key.
 
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