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5 Stages of Learning Based on the "Be-Do-Have" Trading Model

 

BEGINNER

INTERMEDIATE I

INTERMEDIATE II

ADVANCED I

ADVANCED II

Unconscious Incompetence

Conscious Competence

Awakening Moment

Conscious Competence

Unconscious Competence

- you don't know that you don't know something

- you are now aware that you are incompetent at something

- you address that there is something wrong

- you develop a skill in that area but have to think about it

- you are good at it and it now comes naturally

Technical Skills

Technical Skills

Technical Skills

Technical Skills

Technical Skills

- None or Limited

- Learning a trading system or method

- Demo Trading or Live Trading

- Development of a trading plan

- Back testing

- Starts to be aware that something is wrong based on inconsistency of results

- Understands risks and uncertainty of trading

- Discipline is inconsistent

- Trades the plan

- Risk management, money management, and profit management are developed

- Trading system and trading method are developed

- Trading system is mechanical

- Trading methodology is part of SELF

Emotional Skills
Emotional Skills
Emotional Skills
Emotional Skills
Emotional Skills

- No self-awareness

- Level of Self-Awareness is limited

- Not congruent with trading

- Poor self-awareness

- Level of self-awareness is limited

- No control over fear, greed, impulsiveness, trust, confidence, etc.

- Starts to be aware about SELF

- Emotional tools are available

- Development of emotional control

-Mindfulness is inconsistent

- Awareness of SELF

- Emotional tools are more important than trading system

- Starts to be mindful in most cases

 

- Full awareness of SELF

- Emotional tools are part of SELF

- Being mindful and consistently improves oneself

Beliefs
Beliefs
Beliefs
Beliefs
Beliefs

- I can get rich quickly

- I am overwhelmed by the information given

- I don't know where to start

- I can get rich quickly

- I just need to find the "holy grail" trading system

- I know I can make the system better

- I can win with one system

- I now understand risk and uncertainty

- I can do this and I can improve my trading

 

- I am following my own trading system

- I understand risk and uncertainty

- I know that mindset is more important than system

 

- I choose to trade whenever I want to trade

- I don't think, I just do

- I am one with the market

- I trade in the zone

Results
Results
Results
Results
Results

- No trading

- Major losses

- Occasional Wins

- Inconsistent trading

- Inconsistent results

- Frequent draw downs

- Periods of consistent trading

- Periods of consistent results

- Periods of poor results

 

- Long periods of consistency

 

 

- Trading takes care of the results

- Consistency is maintained

 

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