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20 Questions: Trader Interview Series

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 ntvola 
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One more potential question...

- In your style of trading, how important is it to move your stop to "break even".

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Personally, I'd rather let them go longer and pack it full of information, if they're happy to share. e.g. when Linda Raschke has been on, she can go on quite a long time, but it's all incredibly useful information that some of us watch multiple times...so the more gems of wisdom they're willing to share, the better! IMO...


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I've decided that I am going to emphasize the 30 minute time to the interviewee, but that I am not going to flat cut them off at 30 minutes. I would rather an interview run 45 minutes or even 60 minutes and get all 20 questions answered, if that is what it takes.

However, I do believe in trying to deliver compressed succinct information -- so in addition to my emphasis on the 30 minutes, I am going to have a standing offer to donate $100 to the interviewee's charity of choice if the interview is completed in 30 minutes or less.

Just a little fun and excitement

Thoughts on this idea?

Mike


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Ooh good one! I'd like to pile on with...If you move to break even, at what point in the trade do you do so?
and do you scale in / scale out of trades?
Or, more generally...what about "their" system of trading are they willing to share with those of us working on being pros in this arena....?


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One more potential question...

- In your style of trading, how important is it to move your stop to "break even".


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I have a few questions to suggest:

- What are the mistakes you have made on the way to become a consistently profitable trader and how did you overcome them?

- Do you move your stop to breakeven?

- What sort of practice and effort did you put in while you were still not yet consistently profitable?

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Two more questions...

- Do you use volume in any part of your trading/analysis? If so, how critical is it? (supplemental / important / indispensable)

- If you were forced to spend the rest of your trading life using just one indicator (other than a price chart), which indicator would you choose?

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Kevin Davey @kevinkdog confirmed.

I am trying to get some interviews posted before I go on my 3 week cruise vacation, but "spare time" has been very limited lately. Doing my best.

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Dude, no need to apologize...you're living the dream we aspire to!



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Kevin Davey @kevinkdog confirmed.

I am trying to get some interviews posted before I go on my 3 week cruise vacation, but "spare time" has been very limited lately. Doing my best.

Mike


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Hello there!

Hey guys, well three years later this idea is not dead. I repeat, not dead.

We are finally about to launch our 20 questions interview series and will be posting some new interviews soon. Stay tuned for that, I will update this thread once we start rolling them out.

We have kept the same basic principles defined three years ago in this thread, but have changed a few things here and there. Hopefully you will like what you see.

I am currently in the process of finalizing the set of 20 questions, which will mostly remain the same for each interviewee. I would greatly appreciate if you guys would spend a minute and read this thread, see what questions have been proposed already, and then respond with any new questions that you think would be a good fit for this series.

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Some question suggestions:
  • What was the turning point in your trading career? To rephrase, at what point in your career did you feel that things will only improve from here on out (and they did)?
  • If you could go back in time to when you started your trading career, what would you do differently?
  • What do you consider to be the most underrated skill in trading?
  • What do you consider to be the most overrated skill in trading?
  • In your opinion, what differentiates the consistently profitable retail trader with the best of the best?
  • What do you think about fear in trading? Is it healthy or does it hold traders back?

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I expect that a list of only trading related questions will be dull and difficult to differentiate who is who after a couple of lists.

Some personality meat on the bone is good for the grown up traders as a hint of who they are as people lifts them from a beginner's earnest tick-box list
  • What are the 5 words that best describe you?
  • What is the biggest character turn-off for you?
  • What are 5 things you want more of right now? (Could be physical things, characteristics, ideas, anything.)
  • If you could visit any place in the world, where would it be? Would you consider living there?
  • If you could have any OTHER job, what would it be and why?

Just ideas grabbed from: https://www.smartlivingnetwork.com/relationships/b/id-and-ego-getting-to-know-you-the-15-best-questions-to-really-get-to-know-someone/

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