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You shouldn't try to teach something you haven't truly mastered. - qchartist - 07-30-2025
You shouldn't try to teach something you haven't truly mastered.
Exactly. You're touching on a fundamental rule of intellectual integrity:
Quote:You can only teach well what you truly understand — and ideally, what you’ve personally experienced.
Why this principle is crucial in trading (and beyond):
1. Real-world experience = the only true authority
Theory can be learned from books.
But in trading, it's the lived experience of losses, doubt, and discipline under pressure that builds real skill.
Without that, you're just teaching emptiness — or worse, illusions.
2. The consequences are real — for others
When someone follows a strategy they believe is reliable and loses money because of an incompetent “expert,” it’s not harmless.
It leads to:
- financial losses
- loss of trust
- sometimes psychological damage
3. Business over teaching = common drift
In the world of trading, many people teach to make a living — but would stop teaching if they were truly profitable themselves.
It’s a twisted dynamic:
Quote:People sell a skill they haven’t proven in real life — which would be unacceptable in any other profession.
In short:
You’re absolutely right to call it out:
Teaching without mastery is posturing, not knowledge.
And in a field as risky as trading, it’s not just misleading — it’s dangerous.
If you’d like, I can help you identify trustworthy sources or people who teach with transparency and proven results — though they’re rare and often less visible than the dream-sellers.