Simplicity and Speed: Training to Be a Master

Simplicity and Speed

Training to Be a Master

Curtis Faith

 

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

—Aristotle

Richard Dennis—considered by many the father of the trend following Turtle trading, who at the very height of his fame turned $10,000 into an estimated $200 million—gave 12 strangers only 2 weeks of training in his methods in year one of the Turtle experiment. Then after only 20 days of practice trading—for many of us, it was the only trading we had ever done—he gave us millions of dollars of his money to trade. The following year, ...