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: What type of trader are you?


dellBoy
2008-Oct-21, 06:13 AM
Click on the link below:

http://tharptradertest.com/default.aspx?question=1

It will prompt you 35 questions, below is a sample report:


The following is an example of a Trader Test report. It is not indicative of any particular trader type. The example has been created based on a composite of 6 different trader types to show you the type of information you will receive in your Comprehensive and Free Trader

Test Report.
Your Trader Type: XYZ
As an XYZ trader you are probably quite career focused. Thus, if your current focus is on trading, it’s probably because you’ve had a major disappointment or frustration with your initial career of choice. However, you need to be careful with trading/investing because it tends to be a solitary activity and you love to organize others and pass on your knowledge.
Nevertheless, you tend to have the three important qualities that we look for in top traders. Thus, if you apply yourself, develop a business plan for trading/investing, and really work to understand what trading success is all about, you have the potential to be hugely successful.
You are quick to see patterns in the market and develop a perspective that allows you to take advantage of it. Consequently, we recommend that you study what great traders typically do because, if you do, you’ll probably become one of them.
You are good at honoring traditions and standards. However, this can be dangerous because most of the standards you may learn about trading and investing do not work. You also tend to be a perfectionist and as such, you can be very hard on yourself. As a result you need to focus on balancing your high ideals with the day-to-day requirements of living life and trading the markets.
Because you like to analyze, you will tend to identify the facts, label them and then categorize the information so that it makes sense to you. You work best with clearly stated objectives and procedures although you should be vigilant about whose directives you are following in the trading arena, or you may find yourself working on the wrong things.
Example XYZ Trader – George Soros
The trader that most commonly exhibits the same style and trader type as yours would be George Soros. A global financier and philanthropist, his usual demeanor was one of being cool, calm and emotionless with an uncanny ability to predict the markets through his gut instinct and intuition.
His trading career began when he discovered that his desire to be a philosopher was not going to come to fruition.
A workaholic with relentless drive and stamina, he forged a career in trading by making huge bets based on the direction that he thought the markets would go and this worked both in his favor, making him billions on the British Pound, as well as losing him billions on tech stocks in the late eighties.
Soros is the type that will seek knowledge for its own sake, so as to challenge and test authority and ideas. He worked at changing the rules for market participants, rather than just being a participant in the markets. He believed that the markets are not rational, but rather that they are chaotic and market behavior and prices are based on the illogical emotions of the traders in the market rather than cool logical calculations.
Despite the enormity of his ups and downs, his overall track record was very impressive. If you had invested $1,000 in his Quantum Fund when he started out in 1969, you would have had $4 million by the year 2000.
Your XYZ Strengths:
Able to understand and trade in both short and long term positions.
You should be really good at data analysis/developing business plans, especially when someone provides you with the exact steps to take.
You like the challenge of sorting out market conditions and seeing where you fit and can be competitive in the markets.
If someone hands you a system that works – you can follow through with it. You like things that are proven.
Your XYZ Challenges:
You will have a tendency to throw good money after bad to try to jumpstart a losing trade and turn it around.
Under stress, you tend to redouble your efforts and try harder in the belief that you can dig your way out of a hole, but you could be digging in the wrong place.
You may reject or abandon workable systems if the logic isn’t clear because you don’t understand the systems boundaries ahead of time.
You have a strong desire to be right, even to the extent of perfectionism. This might cause you to never actually trade because you’re continually trying to develop or buy better systems.
Solutions Matrix
As an XYZ Trader, you are highly intelligent and quite skilled; therefore, the tougher the problem, the greater the interest. And although you like to work alone and solve things for yourself, you would do best with a mentor or someone that you trust to work with you in really understanding the world of trading.
There are four key challenges that traders of your type experience, as mentioned above. Therefore we have provided you with solutions, references and information to assist you in dealing effectively with those issues.

This is not the end of the Example Report, you will also be provided with an additional page of information providing you with the full list of solutions for your challenges, links to products, services, free articles and downloads to assist you in your trading journey. Good Luck!

chickris
2008-Dec-24, 10:51 PM
Wow my report was a real confidence booster... :)



You tend to be decisive and to the point. You'll quickly assume leadership when it is called for by the circumstances around you. You have the ability to quickly develop and implement trading systems to meet your needs. You can easily spot logical inefficiencies in the market and take advantage of them, especially if you are pointed in the right direction.
You enjoy long-term planning and goal setting and seem to enjoy learning, expanding your knowledge and staying well-informed. Consequently, you should have no problem developing a sound business plan for trading successfully.
You are excellent at planning in advance especially when you have specific trading goals in mind. You are good at keeping both your short term and long term objectives in mind during the planning process. You like to be effective and efficient and will quickly abandon procedures that do not help you to accomplish your goals. Your dislike for repetition in error will probably help you with trading, because uncovering and fixing any mistakes that you make is an important task of trading.
You are probably quite career focused. Thus, if your current focus is on trading, it's probably because you've had a major disappointment or frustration with your initial career of choice. However, you need to be careful with trading/investing because it tends to be a solitary activity and you love to organize others and pass on your knowledge.
Nevertheless, you tend to have the three important qualities that we look for in top traders. Thus, if you apply yourself, develop a business plan for trading/investing, and really work to understand what trading success is all about, you have the potential to be hugely successful.
Trading Strengths

Originality and drive; willingness to follow your ideas through to completion.
Quickly see patterns and possibilities, with the ability to rapidly hypothesize and generate low risk trading ideas.
You could probably generate a trading business plan and trading systems quite easily and naturally. Trading Challenges

Probably so logical that you don't recognize when emotions are causing you to self-destruct.
Your willingness to take action based on rapid insights may result in premature actions, which may create tension with your risk management system especially if you really believe in your rapid insights.
You may be susceptible to the loss trap. Therefore you may not honor your stops because you want to be right about your trades.
May become bored with routine systems, even if they are performing to standard, and seek excitement to "stay in the game."

rangerdoc
2008-Dec-25, 12:47 AM
Wow! That was creepy. I can't believe they got all that from just 35 questions. I'm not sure about all of it, but overall it pretty much describes me, especially the 3 items in the solutions matrix page. They pretty much nailed my three greatest issues/challenges. The toughest part was giving honest answers. There were a few questions I didn't want to answer truthfully.



If the markets interest you, you'll probably work to develop a logical explanation for how they work. This is because you love theoretical ideas and abstract concepts (in fact, much more so than people interactions). This can be great for trading success, if you don't get too theoretical. This type of trader profile suggests that you value knowledge above all else. As a result, you'll be constantly generating new ideas about the market or trying to disprove the ideas that you learn from others. This can be a blessing, as a trader, if you transform this skill into developing a business plan for your trading. On the other hand, it could also be a weakness if you cannot translate it into a sound plan.
You probably are quiet, contained, and adaptable. In addition, I suspect that you can focus in depth on solving a problem in whatever areas interest you. As a result, you can probably succeed very well in the trading arena, if you don't get too focused on concepts that do not work.
You tend to be skeptical, analytical, and sometimes critical. These are also good qualities for a trader. In addition, you probably are very independent, unconventional, and original. These qualities are perfect for traders/investors because they will drive you to develop a system or methodology that FITS YOU rather than attempt to use something that someone else has developed.
Because you have simple day to day needs you are easy to get along with, Personal conflict doesn't really threaten you.
You have two of the three qualities that we find the best traders/investors tend to have. Thus, if you apply yourself, you have the potential to do very well as a trader/investor.
Trading Strengths
You can quickly determine if a new style of trading or system will fit well with your personality.
You can rapidly evaluate when something is working for you.
You like the challenge of sorting out market conditions and like the intellectual stimulation of developing and planning low risk trading ideas.Trading Challenges
Your trading could dominate your time and you could become socially isolated, which in turn could upset others, particularly if you have a spouse.
You may reject or abandon workable systems if the logic isn't clear; because you don't understand the systems boundaries ahead of time.
You are a human being not an android, and you do have emotions. You just don't pay that much attention to them.What we discovered about Independent Traders is that they like their anonymity. So they don't stand out. And of those who have achieved some fame, such as William Eckhardt, the mathematician of Market Wizard's fame, we have trouble finding out much about them. They don't do interviews and there were certainly not any pictures of them available.

However, Independent traders tend to be flawlessly logical and a storehouse of knowledge. They have a logical explanation of everything. And a great example of that is - Data from StarTrek, The Next Generation.

Data, when kissing a woman, was asked for his thoughts. He responded, "In that particular moment, I was reconfiguring the warp field parameters, analyzing the collected works of Charles ....ens, calculating the maximum pressure I could safely apply to your lips, and considering a new food supplement for Spot..." However, it's also important to understand Data from the following quote, "you must be aware I am programmed to evolve--to better myself."

If you don't like thinking about Data as a prototype, then perhaps some of the historical figures who could fit into this category would appeal to you. How about Albert Einstein, Socrates, and Abraham Lincoln?