There is a thin line between a myth and reality. In trading there is a thin line between a great trader and an average trader. My experience and work with others have taught me that the quiet trader has a lot more to offer to the trading world than the noisy, boisterous type of market player. This of course is an overgeneralization, but in every great trader I have known there is a degree of humility, which is lacking in 99.9% of all wannabe get-rich quick traders.

Just like the myth about the discovery of quinine, I have heard so many myths about trading and one thing they all have in common is the lack of transparency when it comes to losing. Both successful and unsuccessful trading is a combination of losing and winning and a successful trader knows better than anyone else that the losing bit is where most efforts are concentrated. The real question that you should ask yourself is why there are so few talks about losing? Isn’t that the real weakness of the strong?