The Big Five personality traits are: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media.

At a bank you also get some structured on the job training from people who have been doing this professionally and that is clearly an advantage.The dashboard is designed to offer traders everything they need throughout their trading day in one place. The healthy skeptic understands that most knowledge is uncertain to some degree and looks to support statements with evidence. Should you demonstrate you have what it takes to become an Alpha Trader, Blackwell Global will build a plan around you.

Don’t just scan the surface of information you receive and let it make its way into your mind, unfiltered. Until you see yourself doing it, you have not really recognized how confirmation bias negatively impacts your decision making.The four groups of the assessment are: 1) the A to D traits, which are on a continuum of bad to good; 2) the E to L traits, which are on a continuum of good to bad; 3) the M to V traits, which are on a continuum of bad to good; and 4) the W to Z traits, which are not necessarily good or bad, but rather just different. Sorry that I have not posted on here for a while but I hope you enjoy this interview which I conducted recently. There were two guys off in the corner that were like: “These sheep are stupid, we’re long gold and PAAS (silver). Good marketers will stick to one view and beat it until they have paid off the summer house in East Hampton.

We’re a team of elite financial professionals whose unwavering focus is empowering traders with the tools and resources to achieve unprecedented success. Don’t say things like: “I’m just like that”, “I’m disorganized” or that’s just who I am” when it comes to conscientiousness.Anyway, he stuck a post-it with “Long or flat” on his monitor to ensure he avoided the temptation to sell in what he felt could only be a bull market.

One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth— or the first. In markets, where incomplete information and group behavior are an intrinsic part of the game, you need to make sure you are always thinking for yourself.Yet many of the best-known Wall Street pundits are persistently pessimistic and many of them have been around for decades. Each pop-up every time you get an e-mail is a pointless distraction and will take you out of the zone when you are trading. With the knowledge that these facets of conscientiousness are major predictors of life success, think about how you can improve in one or more of these areas.