What Matthew McConaughey Taught Me About Trading

It’s funny how when you’re a trader you find trading related tidbits popping up everywhere, sometimes in the most unusual places. The other day my wife was watching a television interview with Matthew McConaughey, the actor. McConaughey was promoting his new film and talking about working with great actors like Leonardo DiCaprio when he said something that resonated with me as a trader. McConaughey said, and I’m paraphrasing, that he was impressed working with the great actors not because they had some “magic” ingredient to their skill; rather it was because the Great actors did the simple things extremely well. I thought that was a profound observation for any aspect of life, but especially for trading. Often trading is not simple. It must be in a trader’s DNA to complicate things.Traders are bent on tweaking their signal to the nth degree hoping to finally get profitable. But this isn’t what Great traders do. Just like McConaughey observed, Great traders do the simple
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