What Is A Trader?
I ask the man.
He looks at me.
A trader is not a bystander, nor a mindless member.
Neither is he a selfless servant. No,
A trader is an ecosystem,
Evolving,
Refusing to be categorized or labeled,
Branded or defined.
Not one role,
Not one task,
Not a tool or production line,
Not one idea or small man. No,
A trader is an ecosystem,
Independent,
Challenging all else
To survive and thrive, evolve and change, or
Sink and die. Extinct.
A trader knows existing today is not tomorrow.
Buttons pushed, research tested, markets predicted.
A trader lives for certainty in self and tomorrow’s unknown.
Adapting to survive, evolving to advance, competing to learn.
A trader creates a pulse that connects and propels
An ecosystem he designed to challenge our own.
So the trader returns back to the question,
What am I and who are we?
Consistent, curious, and connected,
Accurate, authentic, and adaptable,
I strive to be.
I am an ecosystem within this unknown we.
Know Thyself,
He says to me.