"They (proficient traders) already have done all the work and have reliable and accurate route maps inside their heads they refer to. The fact that the reference to the map is silent and invisible makes it that much more mystifying.
The problem as you very accurately have pinpointed is that we live in an age of instant gratification......, an "off the shelf" kind of society
You "know" where these things are and if you close your eyes you can visualise them before you actually get there and see them in reality in front of you"
Socrates
I have chosen a few extracts from some of your recent posts. I read them this morning, along with another you posted, which indicated the amount of hard work you have put into your trading development in the past.
Not many of the readers on this site, I suspect, would be so dedicated, but for those who are the rewards are well-deserved. Those who are thus dedicated are the ones who are "born to be traders".
As in other professions, such as top-level sport, once the years of work have been devoted to the task of development, a mind-map results, which makes the task (to an outsider) seem deceptively easy because it has become so for the proficient practitioner. If asked to explain how the task is carried out it will never be done so to the satisfaction of the amateur, because it can only be explained in general terms at the level of understanding of the amateur. The amateur is not the expert and cannot get into the mind-set of the expert unless and until he becomes one.
Your knowing of the market takes the form of visualisation prior to the event. This is often experienced by top athletes as well and may take the form of other sensory activity - some talk of feeling, others of hearing for example.
I congratulate you on providing these clear indications of the arduous process towards proficient trading, the problems of training others and the folly of the search for an external holy grail.
Charlton