A traders mentality

[TASK]

Do you think traders are born or made?

 

[aparoid89]

I think very little you are born with, your height, your eye colour, genetic diseases perhaps, but the majority comes through your interaction with the environment and in this case being a trader, anyone who puts in a large amount of time and works on their technique, their psychology, their money management can succeed.

 

[The Leopard]

Do you think traders are born or made?

Made really. Certain personality traits help of course, because I think success often involves ripping out a lot of the wiring humans are born with.

I think people are basically hard-wired to suck at something like this. Probably doesn't help that many of the character attributes likely to help you succeed at trading are very unlikely to endear you to your fellow man.

 

[VielGeld]

Both, but much more made imo.

It depends on your attitude, really, which is rarely something you're born with, and more the result of the environment you grew up in.

 

[Qdog]

A trader is definitely made. However, not everyone can be made into a trader....So, I guess it is both.

 

[BeginnerJoe]

95%+ of traders are born to fail. I can't imagine they would consciously and deliberately make themselves fail. Therefore traders are born.

 

[Mike Kshemaraja]

Do you think traders are born or made?

Traders create themselves.

The great individual is simply one who has made a habit of self-development.