intuitive that made someone a good trader. This argument had been going on for a long time, and I guess I was
getting a little frustrated with idle speculation. Finall
y,
I said, "Here is a way we can definitely resolve this argument.
Let's hire and train some people and see what happens." He agreed.
It was an intellectual experiment. We trained them as well as we could. That was the way to do the
experiment right, I thought. I tried to codify all the things I knew about the markets. We taught them a little bit about
probability, money management, and trading. It turned out I was right. I don't say that to pat myself on the back,
but even I am surprised how well it worked. It's frightening how well it worked.
Is your basic contention that you can take almost any reasonably intelligent individual and turn
him into a successful trader?
No. We screened for people we thought would be right. We received 1,000 applications and narrowed it down
to forty people whom we interviewed. Then we picked ten.
What qualities were you looking for?
I don't like to discuss that because if I told you one of the things we looked for was chess players, and we
ever do it again, we would be inundated by resumes from chess players.
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