I rather thought that the pre-requisite was *opportunity* and that everything else was an ellaboration on that.
No, it's far more fundamental than this.
There are many
ways to trade but the overwhelming majority of
ways are mediocre. All the mainstream stuff in the public domain (aka "usual tripe") falls into the mediocre category.
Therefore, the #1 pre-requisite, before starting out trading, is to find one of the very few
ways which makes GOOD money, otherwise you are consigning yourself to years of frustration and disappointment.
No-one (nysestocks, The Oracle, The Expert, The General) who has discovered one of these GOOD
ways is ever going to reveal details. Therefore, you have to try and figure it out for yourself.
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Their generous gift in these threads is telling you what
not to waste your time on (TA and other mainstream rubbish). Oh, and that risk management is no use unless you've found one of the GOOD
ways.
PS. there are a couple of other similar posts by The Expert worth reading. Search for "mediocre".
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