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Chapter 9
Step One
Building Self-Awareness |
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The proper place to begin to learn to trade is with yourself. Successful trading begins and ends with self-awareness. Who you areyour strengths, your weaknesses, your likes, your dislikes, your needs, your desires. All of these have an important bearing on the trader that you can become. |
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Many traders resist this notion. They believe they can succeed by reading another book, subscribing to another newsletter, purchasing another black box system, listening to another chat room, or taking another seminar. |
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Certainly, some of those things are useful, but they are of little value until you know who you are as a trader. This is where the series of "self awareness" classes comes in. |
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The ground we will cover in this area applies to all tradersthe part-time or the full-time trader. Whether trading is an avocation or a vocation, the nature of the challenge is the same: you are competing |
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