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

Buy some collocation. That will do it.

 

Trading Trivia: http://localsfoolsgold.blogspot.be/2013/12/daytrading-20131204-trading-trivia.html

 

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Knowing that all the strategies out there that you can have access to is fake.

 

I would say all strategies have periods when they work, and knowing that they have stopped working is a very hard thing to understand.
I was helping a friend who had sold a system to a lot of people and it lost for 10 consecutive days- too much for most people and I think it was abandoned-but it had worked for quite a while.
If a system worked all the time even giving a 51% edge it would be algo traded

 

Lot of the descriptions I have read I find to be quite basic, more like requirements to be a trader. In my case it was definitely upsizing.

 

If a strategy works in the summer but fails in the winter, it's probably worthless.

If someone wants to sell his strategies, they're probably worthless.

 

And all along…. I thought they taught how to add in grade school



Just funnin ya..., none of this basic - until....

RN

 

to answer the question from OP, I'd say it was my emotion management. I didn't master them, I mastered my management of me & them & trading. ....great question for a thread, seriously, it looks long, I plan to go thru all of it.