Trading is a business like any other.

It requires capital to begin operation.

It requires an operator who can diligently adhere to trading rules.

It requires a trading model that can repeatedly produce a profitable outcome over a series of trades.

It requires a money management model to control capital losses.

It requires emotional intelligence to withstand the velocities of the rising and falling equity curve.

It requires a re-wiring of the brain to think in probabilities.

It requires neuro-associative conditioning to control the pendulum swings of pleasure and pain.

It requires a user to disrupt the typical neurological pathways that lead to improper exposure management.

Trading is as much mental as it is technical.

And the markets will exploit every weakness and inefficiency you have as an operator until you confront the realities of your character.

A study of yourself is a study of the markets.