I think it's important for everyone to understand that there are three keys to becomming a master trader. You must treat trading as a business and develop a thorough business plan to guide your behavior. That plan should include such things as a worse contingency plan and an overview of all of the factors influencing the markets.

Second you need several well-research, non-correlated trading systems that fit the big picture as you outlined it in your plan. These should have a strong postiive expectancy and be high quality systems.

And third, you need on ongoing discipline to take you through the day to day tasks of trading. Part of this should be the ten tasks of trading and part of this should be an ongoing program of working on yourself.

While all of this seems like it might be easy, we've found that it takes about 2 years of dedicated work to build these first three items up to a professional level.