crgarcia, nonsense, do your research. Top money mangers are introverts. http://www.consumerismcommentary.co...ogy-and-finance-introversion-vs-extraversion/ http://partners.nytimes.com/library/financial/100298crisis-meriwether-profile.html http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/16/8404298/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/jobs/01pre.html http://www.amazon.com/Introverted-Leader-Building-Quiet-Strength/dp/1576755770 Most analytical folks are introverts. When you have all you need and don't need anyone to rely on, you don't need all that extrovert stuff society says you need. The best friends are the ones you don't have. signed introvert.
Introverts like to think and have the facts before speaking, extroverts just want to be the bride at every wedding and talk out of their asses without having the facts.
Geeks Trump Alpha Males as Algos Dominate Wall Street "Low key and somewhat awkward, these introverted but brilliant traders look up to James Simons, the Renaissance Technologies fund manager known as the "King of the Quants." A media-shy mathematics professor, the 71-year-old Simons has made billions of dollars by making the right bets on technical trading strategies. In January he will retire from his firm, which manages $17 billion in assets, but will leave an indelible mark on the industry."
You open some of the most asinine threads on ET. I've traded full time 13+ years. I traded in an office with other guys for 3 years. The past 10 I've traded remote -- at home -- by myself. If that makes me a loner so be it. I'm more profitable this way. Some traders think clearer when they don't have background noise, such as emotional traders yelling about a profit or bitching about a trade gone bad.
It's a cold, sunny, beautiful morning. I know, because I'm sitting at my desk, looking out the windows of my warm, comfortable, quiet, relaxing office with a cup of fresh coffee in my hand. My monitors are placed in a way that I can glance outside to look at nature any time I please. The room has what I consider perfect lighting and my walls are painted a color which I find very easy to be around for hours at a time. I have a sink and bathroom a few convienent steps away. I have a recliner from which I can still easily watch my charts, if I get tired of my desk chair. I have a sofa on which I can take a nap if my eyes get heavy, while using audible stops of course. I can play whatever music I want anytime I want. I have access to food, snacks and drink anytime I want. I have no boss to kiss ass to, no employees to bug the hell out of me, no customers to get on my nerves and best of all..........if I feel like a little time off.......all it takes is a push of a button. For some of us, being able to work alone is absolute bliss.
Even though this does not make sense, you seem to realize without self-confidence, it doesn't matter whether you're a loner or not. You will fail.