Learning concepts

Getting it to stick.

Sometimes a full understanding of words is enhanced markedly by pictures illustrating and expanding on a point being made.

"In one ear and out the other" is a common problem.

Not only do sometimes people study from a viewpoint of being a spectator - not really learning something for application,

but almost anyone suffers from a lack of being able to picture or experience an abstract topic or lesson and make it real enough to use.

Besides the addition of pictures to get a better understanding of some subject you can always use the object

being discussed where it is an object. One way of teaching risk management is to have a trader do various things

with real money representing his entire account.

You could take out 1 dollar bills and have each represent 100 or 1000 or a practical representation and add or

subtract them from your total as you trade. If your maximum loss for the day is $500 you would move the bills

if you had losses and quit if that 500 is off your table. A number a variations on this same theme could be used,

but the overall goal of any would be to make learning more real to the new or even experienced trader.