Comments on: It has to come from within you http://www.professionaltradermentoring.com/blog/2008/03/07/it-has-to-come-from-within-you/ Jeff Quinto has decades Experience to trade futures contracts (eminis) and all products of the CME, also Forex and he coached hundreds of Trader worldwide. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mjpierce1 http://www.professionaltradermentoring.com/blog/2008/03/07/it-has-to-come-from-within-you/comment-page-1/#comment-24 mjpierce1 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:26:17 +0000 http://professionaltradermentoring.com/2008/03/07/it-has-to-come-from-within-you/#comment-24 Just read that Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons recently died. What does that have to do with trading? Well, he happened to be a habitant of Lake Geneva, as is Jeff. Additionally, the following quote by him perhaps relates to finding the trader within. Is it a persona we create, or a real manifestation of our true being. I for one don't know... “There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.” mj I never met him, but he was a local celebrity and lived, if I am not mistaken, in a huge house on the other side of the lake from me. His NYT obituary said that he believed in the power of imagination and liked the radio because the "pictures were better". Jeff Just read that Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons recently died. What does that have to do with trading? Well, he happened to be a habitant of Lake Geneva, as is Jeff. Additionally, the following quote by him perhaps relates to finding the trader within. Is it a persona we create, or a real manifestation of our true being. I for one don’t know…

“There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.”

mj

I never met him, but he was a local celebrity and lived, if I am not mistaken, in a huge house on the other side of the lake from me. His NYT obituary said that he believed in the power of imagination and liked the radio because the “pictures were better”.

Jeff

]]> By: mjpierce1 http://www.professionaltradermentoring.com/blog/2008/03/07/it-has-to-come-from-within-you/comment-page-1/#comment-22 mjpierce1 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:15:29 +0000 http://professionaltradermentoring.com/2008/03/07/it-has-to-come-from-within-you/#comment-22 It is hard to think one could not be successful after sitting beside the world-class trader. In many other fields of work, it is this apprenticeship that is the foundation upon which to learn the trade. So...it is difficult to fathom one not being successful sitting next to the master. However, I suppose trading is so much different from other skills, it could very well require the development through self discovery, and not from this apprenticeship structure. After only two weeks of "planned trading", only time will tell if I have the ability to develop this trader from within. But at the very least, "To thine own self be true." It is hard to think one could not be successful after sitting beside the world-class trader. In many other fields of work, it is this apprenticeship that is the foundation upon which to learn the trade. So…it is difficult to fathom one not being successful sitting next to the master.

However, I suppose trading is so much different from other skills, it could very well require the development through self discovery, and not from this apprenticeship structure. After only two weeks of “planned trading”, only time will tell if I have the ability to develop this trader from within. But at the very least, “To thine own self be true.”

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