Stock brokers are a bad example, because that is essentially gambling.
Also playing around with some API will make me better in using that API.
What are some meaningful metrics for becoming a better developer?
Personally, I'd like to launch more.
Also playing around with some API will make me better in using that API.
What are some meaningful metrics for becoming a better developer?
Personally, I'd like to launch more.
Even if you don't consider it gambling, you judge a stock brokers talent based on their average return of investment for their portfolios.
Unless that average is increasing every year, its hard to say they are improving their talent.
Not many brokers and traders work on improving their ROI, they focus on compounding the capital they have at targets like 1% to 3%.
The law of diminishing returns also plays a big role in a stock brokers career, there are swing traders who may make only a few transactions a year, then there are day traders who make hundreds of trades a day. There isn't a strong correlation of hours trading to profits.
Comparing this at all to programming is like comparing apples to kittens.
Assume you have 8 traders and their chance of making a win/loss in a given year is 50% (i.e completely random).
On average, after 1 year, you'll have 4 traders who made money. After 2 years, you'll have 2 and after 3 years you'll have 1.
That one trader can now proclaim loudly that he's outperformed the marked for 3 years in a row. Even though his own influence in this was zero, and he reached it through pure luck.
Luck plays a large role in everyone's life, but for traders much more so, and comparatively for programmers much less.
While there is luck involved with the stock market, those trading in it are not machines trading randomly (which would make it truly gambling) - they are thinking humans trying to make the best decisions they can. It's very easy to spent years playing in the market - but not focusing on improving yourself as a player. The same is true for poker (which is my background).
I'm pretty new to code, but I would think that it's possible to reach that level after a few years. Building things that are easy for you and not pushing to deepen your knowledge.
You get me bro?