Hey Jeff, The point I am making is that people assume that sports and trading are alike...in some ways they obviously are; but I have found that in a number of ways (as I outlined in #16) they are dramatically different. Years ago, I did my doctoral dissertation on this concept and challenged the long-held assumption that athletes make better traders. My data confirmed that there were no correlations between athletic background and trading success. Further to the discussion is that I could argue that trading is like any competitive or high performance related endeavor be it music, politics or graduate school. Thanks for your post. Dr D