hehe, this kind of discussion will then last till no end.well, my personal point of view. Traders might be outspoken or intraverted, they may be silent in a party while the other type of them might be very shining. But a good one will always have the following I THINK: 1. great confidence of self-judgement. Believe themselves can see something more clearly than most of the ppl in the market. and During cases when market moving not in their favor, they can still stay on, of coz, before their stop loss line was touched. 2. extreme discipline. If they have 1 but do not have point 2. they will probably end up with losing all the wealth. because they might just do not believe they are wrong in some big positions and refuse to cut loss despite of well-set stop loss line, then all finish. 3. Intelligent. Of coz, this is required by most of the careers. including science and engineering and IT etc 4. have clear goals. 5. can handle tough situations in life well. This is a general characteristic of ppl havin (more...)