Absolutely. Trading is not for people who are overly attached to "being right" over individual instances.
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Absolutely. Trading is not for people who are overly attached to "being right" over individual instances.
Which is linked to having no ego.
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That is VERY hard to teach.
Agreed. It definitely can be trained. I've done it. But then I also practice meditation. Which in addition to accelerated learning. It speeds up emotional maturity. Hehe.
I am diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, scientists have shown that there is a link between schizophrenia and autism so much so that it can be considered a spectrum.
In 2007 I read an article about a trader who had earned a lot of money from stock trading, I googled shares and charts and I was sold. I remember I thought, where have this world been my whole life, since that day I have been obsessed with that world. I think about from when i wake to i go back to sleep, I can not help thinking about it. I can remember a summer I was psychotic, and i found a lot of comfort in charts and excel sheets.
Am I the born trader, i do not know, but I can spend 6 months thinking of the same little problem until I solve it.
In 2007 I read an article about a trader who had earned a lot of money from stock trading, I googled shares and charts and I was sold. I remember I thought, where have this world been my whole life, since that day I have been obsessed with that world. I think about from when i wake to i go back to sleep, I can not help thinking about it. I can remember a summer I was psychotic, and i found a lot of comfort in charts and excel sheets.
Am I the born trader, i do not know, but I can spend 6 months thinking of the same little problem until I solve it.
Or maybe traders are obsessed with being right, and they change the definition of "being right" to being right about what affects their bottom line instead of being right about each trade ...
... as a group the good traders seem pretty sure of themselves, even if driven by reality instead of obstinance.
I think it's a mistake to think about "natural born trader" out of the greater context of living.
A little kid who is sat before a price screen and DOM ladder will trade like a beast. (Just to hear the "ding!" of a taken trade.) But that kid's parent, with the mortgage on the line, ... "MMmmmm, no so well."
Being able to move things to points of imbalance is just not that hard.
But holding risk in your head, and the potential of reward....... that's a different beast altogether.
Once upon a time, I *was* a kid-at-play, tick-scalping "In Beast-Mode" as my kids said. Now? All I can think about is RvR -- I'm all the way at the other end of the spectrum.
But my point is, it *is* a spectrum.
A little kid who is sat before a price screen and DOM ladder will trade like a beast. (Just to hear the "ding!" of a taken trade.) But that kid's parent, with the mortgage on the line, ... "MMmmmm, no so well."
Being able to move things to points of imbalance is just not that hard.
But holding risk in your head, and the potential of reward....... that's a different beast altogether.
Once upon a time, I *was* a kid-at-play, tick-scalping "In Beast-Mode" as my kids said. Now? All I can think about is RvR -- I'm all the way at the other end of the spectrum.
But my point is, it *is* a spectrum.
Very hard to tell if someone's confidence is based on reality vs irrationality. Especially on the internet. Hehe.Or maybe traders are obsessed with being right, and they change the definition of "being right" to being right about what affects their bottom line instead of being right about each trade ...
I said I was never a natural trader, and it really goes further than that, I was never interested in trading, the stock market, etc, on any level when I was young. My interest came later. As a programmer I have enjoyed finding solutions to a "problem" (the market) that gives you nearly instant feedback when your solution is good. It's almost like being in direct competition with other smart people, seeing who can get the best solution to the same problem, where there is no actual final solution but some solutions are better than others. It's even more entertaining that good solutions equal cash and prizes lol, but I'm not sure that has anything to do with why I became interested in it in the first place. Certainly I'm not in it because I care about the businesses, money lending, or anything like that, I couldn't care less if they were international mega-corporations or pizza coupons. My interest is more like the kind of interest an engineer might have in entering their robot into a maze running competition.
I grew up in very abusive and very poor home, till recently and father never known he was high level Aspergers bi-polar schizophrenia delusional paranoid depression and high IQ, and I inherited the same, unlike father I graduated high school at 14, first degree by 17yo, eventually attained three degrees by age thirty, did three years for Army and got two jobs working for government at same time. Never learned social graces as never and still don't understand people much of the time, traveled dozens of times around the globe. Although I have had to stand in front of huge 500 people attendees, I can't stand crowds. I don't consider myself violent, but did violence when I had to for greater good of assignments. I consider myself more of a machine than human being as it is clear definition as I have matured, always leaning on what I consider "right" to be. I won't allow myself or close friends to be hurt or abused whereupon I would become violent, though I have never been arrested. I am one who stops at auto accidents to render aid or give a statement, I am not afraid of anyone or anything, do believe in God and we talk often. But often times I am very much ok being in corner to some party I didn't want to attend but was asked to offer financial opinions. I do have problems with emotional states and do have weekly spells of weeping. I grew up in a time where world was much more "right" and today it is much more plastic and people don't realize that plastic is adding to our bad health. Money does not buy happiness, but spending time with friends does bring happiness. And usually time can not be bought by those you care about the most, only given.
From early age I could hear music/tones and see numbers floating when I was working on anything school related, it is when brain knows I am getting close to whatever area I am pursuing. When developing trading systems, I still see and hear when touching upon my answers. I am good at patterns, seeing what computers or people don't seen to see even if they in foreign languages, I have learned that we all have personalities that are different, but often it is not level, those who make decisions are much fewer than the sheep that are many, same with trading. Was ok in Math but loved the Sciences much more in school-Biology, what makes us tic.
Early on family taught boys don't buy anything unless at a discount and don't sell anything unless at a premium, so from trading cards to Lemonade stands, whatever we did, hobbies-they have to produce money in the end, Trading stocks always been easy as I see it as continuation of childhood.
I put myself out there more of my areas of life that most would rather never read and rather I kept them in a closet, but this is not for them. It is for those who have problems such I own and let them know they not alone, so tiring when you know you are different and think you are only one.
I am not a Natural anything, just was molded to know cheap/expensive and family is everything. And yes, when I manually trade, I hear music-does get very tiresome and enjoy automation much more.
From early age I could hear music/tones and see numbers floating when I was working on anything school related, it is when brain knows I am getting close to whatever area I am pursuing. When developing trading systems, I still see and hear when touching upon my answers. I am good at patterns, seeing what computers or people don't seen to see even if they in foreign languages, I have learned that we all have personalities that are different, but often it is not level, those who make decisions are much fewer than the sheep that are many, same with trading. Was ok in Math but loved the Sciences much more in school-Biology, what makes us tic.
Early on family taught boys don't buy anything unless at a discount and don't sell anything unless at a premium, so from trading cards to Lemonade stands, whatever we did, hobbies-they have to produce money in the end, Trading stocks always been easy as I see it as continuation of childhood.
I put myself out there more of my areas of life that most would rather never read and rather I kept them in a closet, but this is not for them. It is for those who have problems such I own and let them know they not alone, so tiring when you know you are different and think you are only one.
I am not a Natural anything, just was molded to know cheap/expensive and family is everything. And yes, when I manually trade, I hear music-does get very tiresome and enjoy automation much more.