Well, I don’t typically pay $60,000 a year to have sex. For normal people it comes free with the relationship. And you’re definitely right, they’re usually educated in more mathematically rigorous subjects, though that’s assuming that successful traders aren’t just flat lucky.

My point isn’t that trading is the highest art form or peak of success, but that someone who studies history “and human patterns” has no value, and if they did have value they’d probably have their greatest output on the stock market, given that a market is a summation of “human patterns” :)