Strategic vision is the backtesting, theorising, blurred vision, rose tinted spectacles stage where you are busy doing lots of stuff, you are exchanging ideas on ET, you are feeling excited, you are feeling self important. You dream big dreams. You may even do some boasting or feuding on ET to give yourself a repeated buzz. All of this sustained self deceit may take quite a long time. Essentially you are not bright enough to know you are going nowhere.
The next stage is tactical. All your jacking around has started to give you a hollow realization and you leave the General's chair and take the plunge into actual combat. Whatever you have or haven't been doing you now do a little more: perhaps some trading with trades that only lose. Or perhaps you are doing some trading mixing winners and losers. Either way you are still going nowhere. This lasts until you money gets too low or you get sick of what is to you the apparent chaos of prices and trading
The finale. This is where you, or most, sooner or later, say, 'Fuck it!Fuck this!.' Since life for many is only a confirmation and rationalization of being a loser, you must return to your comfort zone. This is where you can blame the rich and powerful and live a life with a whole array of excuses. You take up your station again as one of the millions of drones that make up most of society. You slink off out of sight. As the voice-over on one video game used to put it: 'You are finished here'.