Beginner Trader Hurdles

Beginner Trader Hurdles

Author: ClayTrader June 17, 2024 Duration: 17:45
A student of my training program recently reached out to me and I wanted to share a few of the points that reveled themselves. When you're new and you don't know what you don't know, you can quickly become mislead and develop faulty understandings of trading. The tricky part is, the misleading is nothing malicious or spiteful, it's simply one person trying to help another. Unfortunately, the very kind act of trying to help is doing the exact opposite. I want to talk about a few topics that I've seen crop up time and time again. It's nothing new, but it's also something that I don' believe can be repeated too often. There's a constant flow of new people coming into the market and the sooner these beginners can be given a firm foundation, the sooner these hurdles can be overcome. Let's get to it!

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