As an income options trading \u00a0mentor, I could almost always tell when one of \u00a0my students was going to be a success. In fact it often became obvious before I ever had \u00a0\u00a0the opportunity to meet that student for the first time.<\/p>\n
Students who were bound for success were so excited about getting started that they could hardly contain themselves. After my initial introductory e-mail to the student, I would invariably receive a reply from the future star trainee expressing a sincere excitement about the learning process, telling me a little bit about him or herself and letting me know what their trading aspirations were\u2014which in most cases was to make income options trading their major source of personal income. My reply was always the\u00a0 same: if the student put the right amount of energy, enthusiasm, time, hard work, discipline and humility into the process, they would be able to fulfill their dreams.<\/p>\n
Once the mentoring process began, the star students would take copious notes\u00a0 during\u00a0 our sessions, ask questions liberally, execute his or her trades diligently, watch them carefully, and come fully prepared for our next session. In fact, the stars would generally give me a heads up as to what THEY wanted to accomplish in our next mentoring session. In short, the future stars always knew what they wanted and were willing to put forth the effort to achieve it.<\/p>\n
One of my former students, Tom, was such a future star. Tom was smart, enthusiastic, humble and diligent. He made it very clear to me what he wanted to accomplish in each of our mentoring sessions and I made sure that his goals were met, no matter how much time it took to for us to get there. As our sessions progressed, Tom started making money and his confidence was building. It goes without saying that working with Tom was a blast for me. Nothing is more satisfying for a teacher than watching one of his students grow and succeed.<\/p>\n
In the game of golf, once all of the golfers have reached the green on a particular hole, the golfer farthest from the hole, according to golf etiquette, takes the first shot at draining the ball in the cup. The most diligent golfers pay careful attention to how that first ball rolls towards the pin. Why? Because the\u00a0first<\/em> putter has no information on the speed and \u00a0curves of the green as the ball approaches the cup. But after that first putter takes his shot, all of the other golfers on that green have \u201cgone to school\u201d on that first golfer\u2019s put and can avoid the mistakes in direction and speed that the first golfer made.<\/p>\n As our mentoring sessions drew to a close, Tom made a special request of me, a request that many of my more successful students make towards the end of our mentoring \u00a0process. He wanted me to spend an entire session sharing with him the most valuable lessons that I have learned as an income options trader. That was a very interesting \u00a0request and I spent a lot of time compiling\u00a0 my thoughts on this subject. Embarrassingly, the list I\u00a0compiled\u00a0was comprised almost exclusively of mistakes that I had made, which taught me valuable lessons that I vowed not to repeat.<\/p>\n As I finished\u00a0 the list of valuable lessons from my options trading career, I began to realize how\u00a0 important Tom\u2019s request was: if I put together the right list, and Tom took it seriously, he could avoid many of the mistakes that I had made. In short, he could \u201cgo to school\u201d on my trading mistakes.<\/p>\n In my next blog entry I\u2019ll share with you the first lesson in my meeting with Tom that day. We\u2019ll call it: \u201cOne \u00a0sure way to\u00a0 blow yourself up as an options trader\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This blog entry is the introduction to a series of posts about common mistakes made by options traders and how to avoid them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1402,1584,455],"tags":[1597,1599,4683,4688,1596,1598,1259,1376,1588,1595],"class_list":["post-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-comments-2","category-options-education","category-seth-freudbergs-blogs","category-trading_psychology","tag-condors","tag-income-options-trading","tag-options","tag-options-education","tag-options-mentors","tag-options-strategies","tag-options-trading","tag-p","tag-seth-freudberg","tag-smb-options-training-program","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"\n