Participating in the market can seem to be a daunting prospect for the non-professional. Having a simple system to help acclimate one to a whole new process can be helpful. When I want to learn anything new I employ a three step process. I describe the three steps as: Knowledge, Analysis, and Trigger (KAT). Here is how I go about that process to aid my development as a new investor and trading.
Knowledge
The obvious and most simple step in my KAT system is that one must first determine where one can gain knowledge. Will you use books from Benjamin Graham
Analysis
The second, and a more difficult step in the KAT system, is developing the ability to analyze the knowledge acquired. In other words, you must gain the ability to filter the useful from the useless. Then one must take the useful knowledge and determine what is actionable and what is not.
There are no shortcuts here at this step. The amount of information available is mind boggling and overwhelming. Without the development of a system of analysis to determine what knowledge you can use, the mere possession of that knowledge is worth nothing.
Trigger
The third and most difficult final step in KAT is what I call the Trigger, as in pull the trigger. Once you have obtained your knowledge sources and once you have developed the ability to analyze what is useful, you must then develop the emotional ability to act on your analysis. This is why the trigger is the most difficult step to develop in KAT.
Acquiring knowledge and analyzing can be easily thought of as logical processes. Pulling the trigger and applying that knowledge and analysis is not. Taking ones knowledge and analysis and implementing it, is an affirmative (and emotional) declaration that you have the self confidence and belief to take action (or inaction) when other may disagree with your conclusion.
The decision to buy a stock (or sell it) is based on knowledge and analysis, but ultimately being able to implement that decision and pull the trigger comes down to emotional confidence in ones ability. If one does not have the ability to recognize and execute that which their knowledge and analysis dictates then mastery of the first two steps of KAT mean nothing
While all this may seem obvious, obvious information is not so obvious when you are unfamiliar with a subject. For those like me who are relatively new to investing and trading, discovering the obvious is a rewarding experience. That is why I think one must understand the above three important (but perhaps obvious) things when you begin to participate in the market.
Understanding that one must gain knowledge, develop the ability to analyze that knowledge, and maintain the emotional discipline to pull the trigger on that analysis is one of the most important and basics things I could understand. And I think you should too.
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