timsk
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If there was a university course entitled 'Trading' - what would the curriculum be ?
Ordinarily, prospective students who want to attend a uni' course to learn about structural engineering for example - would get an outline of the course objectives, a profile of the tutors and a breakdown of the curriculum, term by term, module by module. This would be compiled and written by the course director who, often as not, would be a highly qualified and experienced professional. At the end of the course, say three years, the student is awarded a degree and then leaves the uni' in search of a job. As traders, there are no courses of this nature; we have to devise our own. We are our own course director, only we have no qualifications or experience and are light years away from being professional. Herein lies the conundrum and the title of the thread.
It struck me that it might be useful for the growing legion of new members to T2W, many of whom will be new to trading as well, to have as a starting point a basic framework around which they can devise their own curriculum. Before 'term' starts, the student should have read 'Reminiscences of a Stock Operator' and invested in Edwards & Magee's 'Technical analysis of Stock Trends'. A possible module in term one might be to study FTSE Beater's 'The Basic's of Trading' thread.
Now, just for fun, imagine it's day one of term one on your three year course on trading. Your excited, motivated and keen to learn. Your tutor, some bloke called Larry Williams, walks in and greets you with a friendly smile and says, "We are going to start from scratch and tick of the basics that all traders must know. First of these is . . . "
Tim.
Ordinarily, prospective students who want to attend a uni' course to learn about structural engineering for example - would get an outline of the course objectives, a profile of the tutors and a breakdown of the curriculum, term by term, module by module. This would be compiled and written by the course director who, often as not, would be a highly qualified and experienced professional. At the end of the course, say three years, the student is awarded a degree and then leaves the uni' in search of a job. As traders, there are no courses of this nature; we have to devise our own. We are our own course director, only we have no qualifications or experience and are light years away from being professional. Herein lies the conundrum and the title of the thread.
It struck me that it might be useful for the growing legion of new members to T2W, many of whom will be new to trading as well, to have as a starting point a basic framework around which they can devise their own curriculum. Before 'term' starts, the student should have read 'Reminiscences of a Stock Operator' and invested in Edwards & Magee's 'Technical analysis of Stock Trends'. A possible module in term one might be to study FTSE Beater's 'The Basic's of Trading' thread.
Now, just for fun, imagine it's day one of term one on your three year course on trading. Your excited, motivated and keen to learn. Your tutor, some bloke called Larry Williams, walks in and greets you with a friendly smile and says, "We are going to start from scratch and tick of the basics that all traders must know. First of these is . . . "
Tim.