| The process of learning is an individual thing. Some of | | | | Searching for and gathering tons of trading |
| us prefer to figure things out alone, while others | | | | information would be yet another way to improve |
| need the support and interactivity of others to learn. | | | | your trading. But how tedious and time consuming is |
| The way you learn becomes a factor in your | | | | that? Very. What you may want to consider is |
| progress as well. Some of us learn best visually, | | | | leveraging websites that have already done a lot of |
| others by hearing or auditory means, still others | | | | that searching for you. These websites contain |
| through doing and repetition. Me? I pretty much have | | | | trading libraries, downloadable files, chat rooms, |
| to do all three. I learn best what I can see, hear, | | | | courses, and external links to relevant sites and |
| AND do whatever it is I'm supposed to be learning. | | | | articles. By using these websites, you can get much, |
| How does your learning affect how your trading is | | | | if not all, of the trading information you need, |
| improving? | | | | reducing your searching time to a fraction of what |
| If you've been learning to trade on your own and | | | | you would have spent surfing the internet to find it |
| can't seem to improve at the rate you would like, | | | | on your own. |
| you probably already know that getting a trading | | | | The Novel Idea |
| coach or mentor could really give you the boost and | | | | What if you could combine having a mentor in a |
| attention you need. The right one can help you | | | | group setting and access to centralized trading |
| assess your trading to the smallest details, and | | | | resources? What a novel idea, yes?! The trade off to |
| amazingly, make the smallest suggestions that could | | | | sharing the mentor would be that it would be more |
| make the biggest impact. The mentor can show you | | | | affordable (e.g., CHEAPER!) but still valuable and |
| things, explain things, and probably even give you | | | | maybe even more fun (like in my tennis lessons). |
| homework and trading materials to study. | | | | Group learning has a lot of benefits - including, but |
| Also, another alternative for learning to improve your | | | | not limited to, learning from others, helping others, |
| trading would be to join a group of traders who | | | | support for when you're not doing so well, and |
| want to do the same thing. Invariably, there will be | | | | people to celebrate with when you are doing well! |
| traders of all levels in the group, hopefully some with | | | | AND, having a centralized trading resource could free |
| more experience than you. All I know is that when I | | | | up tons of your time. This type of environment could |
| was learning to play tennis when I was in middle | | | | be a godsend for lots of traders. |
| school, everyone always told me to play with people | | | | So once you figure out what type of learner you are |
| better than myself if I wanted to improve faster. I | | | | (alone vs. group), how you learn (visual, doer, audio), |
| still tell my nieces and nephews that today. I also | | | | and what you would like to learn (centralized trading |
| remember taking private tennis lessons, but I always | | | | depository), you can narrow down and define the |
| enjoyed the group lessons more. They were so | | | | learning environment best suited for you. Once you |
| much more fun, and cheaper. Finding the right group | | | | do this, your trading should improve immensely. |
| of traders could work this way for you as well. | | | | |