{"id":16944,"date":"2012-02-01T14:42:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=16944"},"modified":"2023-06-08T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T14:23:09","slug":"how-long-before-you-felt-comfortablecompetent-as-a-trader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/how-long-before-you-felt-comfortablecompetent-as-a-trader","title":{"rendered":"The Trader&#8217;s Journey: How Long Before You Feel Comfortable and Competent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-visits-indiana-university\">Mike&#8217;s presentation<\/a> in Georgia Tech and I have a question that I hope Mike could answer. He was\u00a0talking about how he would feel at ease practicing basketball. I played competitively for 12 years and I know exactly what he is talking about. The court is like my home and I feel an inner peace and happiness whenever I am on it. I am 26 yrs old now trading the futures market intra day.<\/p>\n<p>I love trading but I am definitely not feeling how I felt on the courts. I was wondering how long did Mike take to achieve that state of peace trading and just loving to get back onto the desk to trade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bella<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For me it took about five years of trading before I felt it was going to be very difficult not to be positive every month. I define this as trading competence. The swishes from a shooting stroke became the ability to control my risk with almost all market patterns. Some say you need to survive a bear and bull market before you truly learn to trade. Others cite the 10,000 hour Gladwell rule, co-opted from Prof. Anders Ericsson of Florida State University.<\/p>\n<p>There are different answers for different traders. So I ask: how long did it take for you to feel comfortable\/competent as a trader?<\/p>\n<p>You can be better tomorrow than you are today!<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1375715301&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=one+good+trade\"><em>One Good Trade<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.amazon.com\/PlayBook-Inside-Think-Professional-Trader\/dp\/0132937646\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1375715301&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=one+good+trade\"><em>The PlayBook<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebellafiore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>no relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched Mike&#8217;s presentation in Georgia Tech and I have a question that I hope Mike could answer. He was\u00a0talking about how he would feel at ease practicing basketball. I played competitively for 12 years and I know exactly what he is talking about. The court is like my home and I feel an inner peace and happiness whenever &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/how-long-before-you-felt-comfortablecompetent-as-a-trader\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4676,30,1828,1193,653,1996,1354,1989,1349],"class_list":["post-16944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-day-trading","tag-prop-trading","tag-smbu","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-class","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-course","tag-trading-mentor","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Long to Feel Comfortable as a Trader | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How long does it take to feel comfortable and competent as a trader? 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