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I would be happy to co-ordinate doing research into a more structured curriculum development and bringing it into a solid form.
My first thoughts are:
1. Running a futures.io (formerly BMT) member focused survey
2. Included in this would be suggestions of prop firms or individuals to interview
3. Contacting prop firms with which we have good relations - TST springs to mind but there are others. The Germans have a few and there seems to be good knowledge here regarding them in the German speaking fora, I think that there are some in France and I'm sure that there are loads of firms in London that will speak to us. In China there are loads and loads of TST style firms. I can gladly speak with some of them.
4. If I come across any pearls along the way I can record them
5. Finally I would present the findings in PPT/ Webinar and XLS format
A real, sustainable edge took me 5k hours. I didn't know for sure at the time
but I knew I was onto something. Looking back now I see it was around the 5k mark because
before that I traded ichimoku for 2k hours. So the total amount of time it took me from taking my
thoughts and theory on paper to my programming and developing my rules took arouind 3k.
Being able to trade it accordingly and over coming the psychological pit falls that comes with trading took another 2-3k, for a total
of 7-8k in psychology alone. (Assuming psychology is part of the equation from the get go)
I've still not totally mastered it but I am doing well.
Psychology > Strategy ≥ Money
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Might need some good cross training shoes to make it past secruity on the way out, but if you are going though all that you might want to get something bigger than a 20 for a better ROI
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LOL, he is around now and then @FuturesTrader71 let's see if he responds.
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Just about right @Big Mike. A freshly graduated engineer needs equivalent to 5 years of grunt work and experience before he can be taken seriously or be able to take the test to become a "Professional Engineer." And that is just to begin getting noticed and considered for worthy assignments that would require his PE stamp. Some industries will not even hire unless one has a PE and so many years of experience.
So, how else a room operator and self-proclaimed professional trader, educator/psychologist claiming to have over 40,000 hours of screen time can be taken seriously when she is not a P. MD, CMT, CFA, or holder of any one of the Series certificate.
Last edited by aligator; February 19th, 2013 at 06:10 PM.
I put in over 40 hours a week for almost 4 years straight.
52 weeks in a year
x 40 hours
x 4 years
= 8320 hours
The first 2k I spent on ichimoku
The next 3k I spent programming a new method. That's the 5k.
My last 3k, I've spent perfecting my method.
I've worked on my psyche in regards to trading whether I realized it or not from the very beginning.
Psychology > Strategy ≥ Money
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