{"id":6092,"date":"2010-07-25T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2021-02-11T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T21:21:44","slug":"a-4-the-trading-community-specialize-or-well-rounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/a-4-the-trading-community-specialize-or-well-rounded","title":{"rendered":"A ? 4 the Trading Community- Specialize or Well-Rounded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Steenbarger<\/a> helped SMB recognize one of the improvements we could make at our firm awhile ago. The partners and Senior Traders must be responsible for a great deal of teaching and mentoring. But if traders are not leveraging the talent of all firm members then that firm is not offering the best learning environment. Traders learn from other traders and not just partners and senior traders.<\/p>\n

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The SMB Blog should not just be everything that Steve or GMan or Adam or I have learned. It should advocate a learning community so much more than just us. We are just four guys with four sets of learning experiences, granted some of us have been trading for a long time. But our daily community is so much larger. In the past I have asked for input from our readers. Today for this new series to our blog we ask for help from our trading community. We ask for your input and ideas. Please read the question posed by Reader John and offer your thoughts.<\/p>\n

Bella,<\/p>\n

Great post.<\/p>\n

This is query is unrelated to the this post directly.<\/p>\n

I believe in learning one successful setup and becoming the very best in executing on any one setup. As you grow you increase size on this one setup NOT go off and try to become an expert in five or ten different setups and have marginal or no success in all 10 or 5 or whatever number.<\/p>\n

It seems you guys push your traders to become experts in many many setups from trading the open to News events, to reading T\/sales and level 2 to many others. It seems this volume of setups a new trader must learn with you guys could be stifling. Why not have them spend one or two years on just one setup only. This will breed an expert in one domain and confidence as well.<\/p>\n

There are futures\/forex traders who make huge careers on this one-setup method and not try to become a genius in all?<\/p>\n

Do you agree \u2013 am I off base? This is just an observation from watching various videos and blog tutorials from SMB? At the end of the day, you guys obviously have success so if it ain\u2019t broke\u2026. but the one setup only method helped me filter out so much noise and just trade MY setup and not worry about anything else.<\/p>\n

Great work and thanks,<\/p>\n

John<\/p><\/blockquote>\n