Scalpers
- High energy, short attention spans.
- Usually former athletes, tennis and hockey players make the best traders.
- Able to play both offense and defense simultaneously, and able to think a few steps ahead of the game.
- Spreaders / Option Traders
- Quick and flexible thinkers, able to look at numbers and figure risk and value instantaneously.
- Not in the market to take risk, methodically search for mathematical anomalies and lock in profits immediately.
- Position Traders
- Energy level almost nonexistent.
- Put on passive positions, ride the winners, cut losers.
- As a position trader, your brains are working all the time, and you keep looking for an informational edge that might drive the market one way or the other.