Trader Myers-Briggs Personality Type

What is your MBTI type?

  • SJ

    Votes: 20 6.1%

  • SP

    Votes: 10 3.0%

  • NF

    Votes: 40 12.1%

  • NT

    Votes: 222 67.3%

  • Don't know what those letters mean!

    Votes: 38 11.5%
  • Total voters
    330
ISTJ you can unconsiously bias this test or any so called personality test.Most of us have a flawed reality model both external and internal.A life long engineer who resisted management positions until forced by circumstances.Successful both ways.
I personally like the KISS principal,the observations of Pareto that first observed the 80 20 rule,Einstein who said to make things as simple as possible,but not simpler.and have observed thru the years that the Peter Principle is right on.
As to which profile is correct for the trader,any one can be since I believe that there can be innumerable ways to successfully trade. Each of us is flawed in some way and must develop work arrounds to succeed.
I'm a simple soul that works best with pictures and no heavy duty math analysis that believes that both ways can be successful.
 
Quote from heypa:

ISTJ you can unconsiously bias this test or any so called personality test.Most of us have a flawed reality model both external and internal.A life long engineer who resisted management positions until forced by circumstances.Successful both ways.
I personally like the KISS principal,the observations of Pareto that first observed the 80 20 rule,Einstein who said to make things as simple as possible,but not simpler.and have observed thru the years that the Peter Principle is right on.
As to which profile is correct for the trader,any one can be since I believe that there can be innumerable ways to successfully trade. Each of us is flawed in some way and must develop work arrounds to succeed.
I'm a simple soul that works best with pictures and no heavy duty math analysis that believes that both ways can be successful.
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Great post, nice talking with ya. :)
 
Quote from dtrader98:

INTJ/engineer and can attest to that:D

Hardest problem to learn was throw out the logic/order part (after many painful WTFs). Very good insight.
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I disagree. The markets are perfectly logical and orderly - just in a different way to how most inexperienced people think they are. If a novice has no preconceived notions of how markets ought to act, and is prepared to watch and learn, having accepted they know *nothing whatsoever*, then they will do fine regardless of an engineering background.

If engineers had no assumptions about the markets - which they shouldn't, since engineering gives no market training, and new traders are by definition clueless novices - then they would not try and impose any order or logic at first. Rather, they would progess like good scientists and observe, record data, test rigorously, formulate tentative hypotheses, then make small bets at first, slowly learning over time. A bit like a trainee engineer or doctor. You would not put an engineer, a mere 3 months into college, in charge of building a mile long suspension bridge, nor would a medical trainee be put in charge of brain surgery. The results would be disastrous. Why is it any different if you put a 3 month trading novice in the markets?

IMO engineering is a great background for approaching the markets - as long as you don't have a huge ego and think you know it all from the start. But then, ANY discipline is useless if you have a giant ego and loads of preconceived notions about how the markets work. People from all backgrounds make these mistakes and blow up.
 
First time I have ever taken one of these tests also



Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
44 38 25 44



What is even more freaky is this describes me to a T.


Quote from moo:

The trader who is an NT will live his work. If markets stay open 24 hours, he is likely to try to follow the market for 24-hours just because the market exists and missing something might be making a mistake. He wants to be the best possible trader, so he will do whatever he can to be successful. He is extremely vulnerable to the "all work, no play" syndrome and this kind of attitude can lead to a very out-of -balance lifestyle.
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