There is a particular moment that many Singapore traders describe in almost identical terms. It arrives sometime in the first few months of active trading, usually after a position moves sharply against them, and it forces a kind of self-examination that no amount of pre-trade research adequately prepares a trader for. The question it raises is not about the market. It is about the trader. Specifically, it asks whether the size of that position reflected genuine conviction and calculated risk, or whether it reflected something less disciplined and more difficult…
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