What was the ***last*** thing you had to master before becoming profitable?

I had to un-learn most of what I picked up from Gurus. I actually traded my best during my first month, then went downhill. The natural edge I lost can be summed up in two words......

:eek:

 

Soros is old and still bold.

So much for the no bold trader saying.

 

Very serious subject matters.

 

Profits have a magical ability to solve many problems including psychology.

 

Well, baseball and trading have a lot in common so I am not surprised that he mastered trading by mastering batting.

 

Buy a crystal ball on EBay and use it tell when there are trends and when there are no trends.

 

"What was the ***last*** thing you had to master before becoming profitable?"

yourself.

 

AFAIK, Soros no longer trades. His family office does all the trading. Apparently it's pretty conservatively managed, no bold bets.

 

whose decision was it to buy spanish and italian bonds from mf global? it was seen as bold at the time.

 

Bold from the outsider's view, but maybe they knew ex-banker Draghi would "do whatever it takes."