Last Updated on May 2, 2022 by Chin Yi Xuan
Imagine yourself being the manager of an airline company.
Would you allow a junior flight school student to fly a real plane for you, even though this student may have read and understood the theories on how to operate a plane?
By now, you may be thinking:
āRidiculous, of course no!ā
Hey, I figured the same too.
Iād throw this fella into multiple flight simulations and make sure that this flight school student is able to follow standards & procedures for a flight.
More importantly, Iād not want this soon-to-be pilot crashing my real planes if he/she canāt even handle landing the plane safely in a simulated environment.
Make sense, right?
I hope I have made my point of this article by now, but if not, here it goes:
Putting a junior flight school student into simulations is exactly the same as you going through the demo or paper trading phase when you first started investing or trading.
Essentially, you are doing yourself a HUGE favor by making sure that you can follow the rules and strategies consistently in a risk-free environment.
Hereās the thing:
At the beginning of your investing or trading journey, itās not about making a lot of money. Itās not even about having a āfeelā with putting in real money into the market.
Itās about you having the discipline to follow the rules and processes and learn the foundation properly without additional emotional baggage.
Honestly, if you canāt land a plane safely in a simulated environment, what makes you think that you can land a real plane in reality ā before crashing a few costly planes and hurting yourself (and others) badly in between?
I believe Iāve made my point clear.
p.s. Related Read: Here’s What Iād Do if I Had to Start My Investing Journey All Over Again
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