- A persistent unquenchable motivation to compete and achieve personal stock market mastery
- A personally developed hands-on strategy in writing that fits your personality.
- The ability to be brutally honest and objective about your beliefs and weaknesses.
- An inner resiliency to weather all market storms with little emotional scar tissue.
- Well-defined risk management rules and an ability to accept responsibility for losses.
- Unassailable confidence in your system and yourself.
- Discipline to follow your methodology and act decisively.
- A strong ethic for working hard but also working smart.
- Patience and an ability to wait for high probability trades to materialize.
- A willingness to embrace change, to modify your thinking, to rewrite your methodology and transform yourself.