My dear chap, you are clearly confused, and not for the first time I note. Let me explain……there is a vast difference between haste and brevity, much the same as there is a vast difference between Chess, Rubik’s Cube, Badminton, Croquet, (I could go on) and trading stock markets. If you insist on making a comparison between Trading and some sort of “game” the closest you’ll ever find is Poker and I’ll leave you to ponder the “why”. However, and more to the point, there really is no value added in making any such comparison because…..trading is trading, and Chess is Chess, and Badminton is….and…..you’ll get my drift I’m sure. Or am I ?
You also seem to be struggling to understand the use of the word “contradicting” because in the original post there was nothing to contradict – as I read it (and my comprehension of the English language is far superior to yours it seems) he was canvassing opinion, and now he has some, mine included, with no contradiction possible.
Besides, it strikes me that anybody wanting to acknowledge, or worse still be acknowledged, for having “mastered” trading is merely looking to boost his or her ego, else why does it matter ? It is also widely acknowledged that a traders profits are inversely proportional to a traders ego, which perhaps goes someway to explaining your personal profitability in trading vanilla options recently ?