...such as CFA, CFP, Lawyer, Economist or anything else in the world etc etc, that u think will help you be a productive/efficient trader, what would it be?
If your capital is scarce in the beginning: MD That way you can treat yourself and don't have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a tetanus shot or consultation every time you get a bruise or cut.
I go with this. JD is worthless. I have traded with more lawyers that hated law than any other professionals (too many lawyers I guess, and most of them don't like law). Not too many of them were particularly successful. Certainly no better on average than all the other traders I have worked with. My $.02 Peace, rs7 PS: My wife is a lawyer, and a CFP, and she hasn't contributed a single thing to our portfolio (other than income). She cannot understand what I do as a trader. Only stock pick she made in the past 5 years was AOL at 90 something and sold it at 10.(Obviously she is no longer using her series 7 or CFP credentials). And she would be the first to admit that she could never trade.
::shudders:: Cripes, I still get nightmares that I didn't finish high school. Like there's one last class that I failed. And I have to go back and repeat it. Arrgh. ::shivers:: Sometimes I wake up with a start, thinking I'm late for a test for my first class of the day, and I haven't studied one iota. I've been out of college for 12 years, high school for 17 years... and I still have these dreams. No-way, no how is a degree worth it. I learn much better following a random path. Besides trading books ...oh where will I get the time... next on my reading list are Richard Wright's Native Son, Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequity, and Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude. Now, if I could get a degree in Humanities from my local university, based on my self-defined reading list and my essays on the human condition I'd take it. But who's going to do that? No matter, I seek for its own reward. André