The Special Talents and Skills of Short-Term Trading

 

1/22/2026 - Talents represent our inborn strengths.  As Goethe points out, we find our greatest happiness and fulfillment when what we're doing in life is aligned with our talents.  To make the most of our talent, we typically have to develop skills in any field.  Those are not inborn; they are conveyed through mentoring and practice.  Skills put talents into action; together they create success.  The football player who has natural athletic talents spends hours and hours in practice and in sessions with coaches to hone the skills that will turn raw talent into successful performance.  A key performance principle is that elite performers typically spend more time in practice and rehearsal than in formal performance.  That process of deliberate practice not only hones skills, but develops the winning mindset of the performer.  It is the role of the coach to structure practice sessions and provide the feedback that will allow performers to make the most of their talents.

Without mentoring/coaching and structured deliberate practice, talents never find their way to skills and elite performance.  In the upcoming posts, we'll take a look at the special talents and skills required by short-term trading and the ways in which these can be honed through the right kinds of learning processes.