How to Find Success in Trading

When he started trading, it was shorting small caps from mid caps. He would hold them one week, two weeks, three weeks, sometimes a month and write them all the way back down as far as he could cover them. There was no borrow fees, no short interest. So I mean, none of that stuff existed. And again, my memory now this is going back 16 or 18 years, but I don't remember algorithms, you know, getting involved with this stuff.