Are traders born or made?

[mitchell69]

For those of you who’ve walked the trader’s path, you’ll know how daunting it can be. Standing in the footsteps of legends, wondering which strategy to follow, what concepts to learn and--more importantly--whether you really have what it takes to be a trader.

When your emotions are raging like a rollercoaster, a trading win can lead to a euphoric high. And a loss? A plummeting low that makes you doubt your ability and courage to stay in the game. 

But can you learn to overcome your emotions, bide your time, fight against your urge to buy or sell, and figure out how to read the markets? Can you teach yourself to be a trader?

When you’re filled with self-doubt and overwhelmed by a plethora of trading tools and options, you may find yourself asking the question: are traders born or made?
URL – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKaz8VAe3Iv3HI_UYx3j7QFIgUcf5v_y71M0Md3YU12fq0OQ/viewform

[jerry7788]

For those of you who’ve walked the trader’s path, you’ll know how daunting it can be. Standing in the footsteps of legends, wondering which strategy to follow, what concepts to learn and--more importantly--whether you really have what it takes to be a trader.

When your emotions are raging like a rollercoaster, a trading win can lead to a euphoric high. And a loss? A plummeting low that makes you doubt your ability and courage to stay in the game. 

But can you learn to overcome your emotions, bide your time, fight against your urge to buy or sell, and figure out how to read the markets? Can you teach yourself to be a trader?

When you’re filled with self-doubt and overwhelmed by a plethora of trading tools and options, you may find yourself asking the question: are traders born or made?
URL – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKaz8VAe3Iv3HI_UYx3j7QFIgUcf5v_y71M0Md3YU12fq0OQ/viewform

That was poetic, but what is this link supposed to be? Not clicking it without explanation.

[buser]

The survey is certainly interesting, but why does Digitex need it?

[buser]

The survey is certainly interesting, but why does Digitex need it?

Maybe, they want to understand modern crypto currency traders better. 

Will this make their platform better?

[Jating]

Not clicking as well, this is another market strategy from the looks of it.

But to answer the questions, for me everything can be taught or learn in this life. So definitely, it can be made. I'm sure that majority of us didn't know how to be a good trader or investor. But as we go along this journey, we learn some lessons and we gain experienced. We learn how to control our emotions and use logic to make trades so no doubt that every aspects of life can be taught, imho.

[izanagi narukami]

IMO, it's both of them.
Why ?

When they have born , they become a potential trader , something powerful that able to change the world !
When they were made , it's because the more practice they have done before make it better person !

[St4yInTh3D4rk]

They were made based on their life learning,if you do research about most of the successful people in this world they were became rich from very poor family which shows thay their parents may not have that ability to make money,when a person have strong determination onto something they will work for it and will try to reach that goal.I see everything in this world as trading so the one who knows how to sell better will be more richer in quick time.

[Shults]

Sure traders aren’t born, they’re made. It’s unremitting toil, there’re thousands of mistakes and other difficulties to pass through.   

[jems]

in my opinion the traders are made with what they have been through, such as good and bad, big or small, high or short to expensive or cheap. And from that they are able to compare everything and be able to take the best things which then with that experience they can become successful traders.

[ophyrim]

No one born as a trader. Even some people tend to this job, everyone needs education about trade; technical analysis, fundamental analysis, market cycles etc... and also human psychology.

[shushanika]

For those of you who’ve walked the trader’s path, you’ll know how daunting it can be. Standing in the footsteps of legends, wondering which strategy to follow, what concepts to learn and--more importantly--whether you really have what it takes to be a trader.

When your emotions are raging like a rollercoaster, a trading win can lead to a euphoric high. And a loss? A plummeting low that makes you doubt your ability and courage to stay in the game. 

But can you learn to overcome your emotions, bide your time, fight against your urge to buy or sell, and figure out how to read the markets? Can you teach yourself to be a trader?

When you’re filled with self-doubt and overwhelmed by a plethora of trading tools and options, you may find yourself asking the question: are traders born or made?
URL – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKaz8VAe3Iv3HI_UYx3j7QFIgUcf5v_y71M0Md3YU12fq0OQ/viewform

Very good question. I feel you need to be born to be a good trader, be able to make decisions on data and statistics, and leave emotions out of the equation. But this is very hard to do, even if you are aware that this is critical. I had quite a few trading courses and know the pitfalls...but still get trapped again and again. I might be an impulsive person and less fact driven...and this will always haunt me.

[leowonderful]

Traders are most definitely nearly all made. Some people are obviously better traders at first and talent can take you a long way, but if you persevere, practice and work hard enough you’ll be able to become a successful trader as well. There’s plenty of room to learn with trading nowadays, especially with all the info out there on the web today about trading.

[Indrawan77]

A good traders are the one that keep on learning, keep on fixing the mistake, getting more knowledge and experience, and don't afraid to take risk so traders are made of, maybe some of them already got the talent since they were born, but without experience and practising it wont be complete

[BitBustah]

I actually think a large part of being a trader is your emotional mindset.  This is something you are born with and whether or not you can keep your emotions in check and not get angry.  I believe the same thing applies for poker.  Of course you need to learn all the technicals but without the right personality you won't succeed.

[butka]

Traders are most definitely made, but your personal traits may play a role during the process. The main question is : Can you handle elevated emotional states or not? Some people can do that more easily than others, and that's where the "born" part kicks in. So your personality traits play a role for sure. But you can train yourself to better handle stressful situations.

It is clear that the psychological side of trading is more important than technical analysis. Like you described in the OP: the main problem is can you overcome your emotions, can your overcome the urge to sell too soon, etc?

There is one important point in the whole story. I believe you can circumvent psychology and not engage in emotions while trading. I think you can do that if you have a bulletproof trading system that makes decisions instead of you. Decisions when to buy and when to sell, when to enter and when to exit the trade. If you can devise such a trading system, I believe you can leave behind all these emotional uncertainties. You simply do what your system tells you, and then, it doesn't matter any more if you are a born or made trader.

[LUCKMCFLY]

There is natural talent, but the trader must always be updated and understand the market every day, the more knowledge the trader has more chances of success, the rest will not be able to do many things that lead to greatness.

[hulla]

With what I have experienced so far about the crypto market trading, I believed traders are made not born because the crypto market is not a stagnant market but it revolve each and every time and successful cryptoneirs are those that revolve with the market and they only way to be successful is to be hard working.

[jjdub7]

For those of you who’ve walked the trader’s path, you’ll know how daunting it can be. Standing in the footsteps of legends, wondering which strategy to follow, what concepts to learn and--more importantly--whether you really have what it takes to be a trader.

When your emotions are raging like a rollercoaster, a trading win can lead to a euphoric high. And a loss? A plummeting low that makes you doubt your ability and courage to stay in the game. 

But can you learn to overcome your emotions, bide your time, fight against your urge to buy or sell, and figure out how to read the markets? Can you teach yourself to be a trader?

When you’re filled with self-doubt and overwhelmed by a plethora of trading tools and options, you may find yourself asking the question: are traders born or made?
URL – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKaz8VAe3Iv3HI_UYx3j7QFIgUcf5v_y71M0Md3YU12fq0OQ/viewform

Traders are both born and made. Those who are lucky to be born with the ability of a trader have much easier life. Whos' not born this way could learn to be a good trader with a lot of dedication. Like in everything else.

I will not fill the survey as I don't like to be part of any stats.

[Lpim01]

With what I have experienced so far about the crypto market trading, I believed traders are made not born because the crypto market is not a stagnant market but it revolve each and every time and successful cryptoneirs are those that revolve with the market and they only way to be successful is to be hard working.

No body have born to be a gambler nor destined to be a gambler. We actually can learn trading through the influence of our friends, family members or from our office mates. Trading is a specialize form of work cause it needs more analytical thinking and understanding with the market charts. Being in a traders life isn't to be our destined but it is our choice to be there.

[rizkyhiw]

Everyone has the potential to become a trader who might reach a good point in terms of knowledge and emotional dependence on themselves, for emotional problems that are closely related to trade where the self is not ready to accept everything, skills in trade will always be honed in doing each it can be a benchmark for understanding real markets such as crypto.

I think there is no problem if everyone wants to jump to the merchant, yes, there may be risks borne by themselves, I hope everyone develops in terms of trade and other things in the crypto world.