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Old 01-24-2005, 11:18 PM
Dan Mezick Dan Mezick is offline
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Default Re: Can Losing Poker Players Can Make Great Traders ?

I think generally the personal discipline, and personal psychology, and emotional-dynamic aspects of both poker and trading are very similiar.

World-historical traders such as Mark Minervini (interviewed in the book Stock Market Wizards) and others strongly suggest poker play as important training for traders.

I therefore conclude that a successful poker player, who by definition must develop keen discipline, emotional control, judgement etc, is likely very much predisposed to a successful trading career, as compared to any randomly selected non-poker candidate.

A major trading concern reportedly uses Sklansky's books and poker playing in their trader training. You can examine information on that here:

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