Are great traders made or born?

[OddTrader]

I believe all winners, mentors, vendors and brokers targeting my money would tell me great traders are made.

 

[syrre]

I think its not the one or the other, its BOTH:

Great traders are born with talent - AND - They learn to be successful

What about that ?

 

[Steve Tvardek]

This sounds like a good compromise, and probably the most true imo.

Quote from syrre:



Great traders are born with talent - AND - They learn to be successful

 

[murray t turtle]

Quote from FXSPECIALER:

Before one can be made a trader one must be first born. These are simply not two mutually exclusive alternatives. I'd need a venn diagram to properly explain, but if you don't conceptually understand the flaw in this discussion you are not a trader.

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Exactly ;
Like the youngster asked ''any great men born in this town?????.

No the old timer said ;
only babies

 

[Bond-Speculator]

Quote from profitplay:

I was just thinking of comparing a great trader to a great signer...

Do you mean like Benjamin Franklin or John Hancock?

 

[Bond-Speculator]

I believe traders are born. Some people have the natural capacity to sit tight when everyone else is frantic, to buy when everyone else is selling, and to sell when everyone else is buying. A great trader does all of these things. However, without unrelenting persistence and determination, the talent goes wasted....that's how i see it...

 

[Bond-Speculator]

Quote from FXSPECIALER:

Before one can be made a trader one must be first born...

I'm first born. Looks like my sisters have no chance in this game since they were born after me....they'll be heart broken

 

[OddTrader]

Probably Neither, some great traders were just luckly.

http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/printout/0,23657,747199,00.html

 

[watchdaride]

I have said from the begining the best way to be a good trader is to find a good mentor . Over the past 3 years of trading never met anyone who made a living from trading . But most successful traders make alot of cash and dont need the hassle of teaching some one. So that leaves people like peter bain. mti and others that show a chart at the end of the day and says it so obvious why that happened. Still searching for my mentor.

 

[OddTrader]

Quote from watchdaride:

I have said from the begining the best way to be a good trader is to find a good mentor . Over the past 3 years of trading never met anyone who made a living from trading . But most successful traders make alot of cash and dont need the hassle of teaching some one. So that leaves people like peter bain. mti and others that show a chart at the end of the day and says it so obvious why that happened. Still searching for my mentor.

Have you tried the following yet?:

1. Start a new thread about "How to find a good mentor?".

2. Find first a "finding mentor" who knows how to find a "trading mentor" who knows how to trade.