Superior intellect - is that enough?

Quote from supersizeit:

I think one who who spends their time thinking how intelligent he or she is and is eager to tell others is counter-productive self serving egotism and could even be interpreted as lacking in self esteem...though I was classified a child genius as a kid...
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Good point. Both of them.
 
Quote from LeonPhelps:

Friend, "superior" is an objective term with reference to intellect. And not synonymous with omniscience. Braggadocio in absentia. As I have clearly stated, there are many more requisites for a successful trader than mere intellect. The question is: Is intellect a prerequisite?
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Ok your smart now go out and prove it. If you talk the talk (which you do) lets see you walk the walk. That will convince everyone.

Cheers

My last post on the thread
 
After a year reading the Mensa Bulletin (I think that's what it was called back in 1988), I concluded there were (are) just as many wing nuts among Mensans as in the rest of the populace.

The passionate arguments over which religion was "the Truth", that UFOs are real, that there are vast conspiracies controlling the world, that big government is really a good thing as long as the writer's thugs were in control, and so on, were enough to convince me that IQ only measures a person's "processor speed" and nothing more.

Crappy conclusions reached quickly are still crap.
 
Quote from LeonPhelps:

Not meant as bragging, but I'm smarter than 99.9% of you jokers. From IQ measurement, SAT scores and every standardized test I've taken, I'm in the 0.1% percentile. No BS, just the fact.

So does this mean that I should be a successful trader? Ought a "genius" with at least some common sense dominate the markets?
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And who are you bragging to? A bunch of idiots? What does that make you? An idiot after all.
 
If profits are one measure of smarts in trading then I think the smartest among us traders are the ones that are too busy making money to be debating each other about how smart we are...so where does that leave me? :confused: I have to get out of this thread now! :D
 
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