How Retail Investors Can Build a Personal Trading System

The article is long and I don’t have much patience to read it all, but after skimming through, I’d say the most valuable takeaway is this:

When building your trading system, don’t fight against your own nature. If you’re a slow, deliberate person, avoid short-term instruments that demand quick decisions. And if you’re naturally impatient, playing the long game will be torture.

Going against who you are is a fast track to a mental breakdown.

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The author also raved about a book, calling it a masterpiece — The Crowd — and I’d argue it maps perfectly onto stock markets. After all, the stock market is the fastest way to exploit human emotion. If you can, give it a read.