CHAPTER 14

Becoming an Expert

Far too many people—especially people with great expertise in one area—are contemptuous of knowledge in other areas or believe that being bright is a substitute for knowledge.

—Peter Drucker

Forex traders around the world are making money every day. These traders have one thing in common—a secret. This secret may surprise you. If you are like me, when you first started learning about trading you thought all the traders who were making money were computer science, mathematics, or physics wizards with lightning-fast computers deploying secret algorithms. Trading was the domain of the well educated that had the computing power to crack the market code. I was convinced that only by duplicating these efforts would I be able to consistently rack up profits. I knew that trading had to be complex, and perhaps you feel think same way.