Answer 30 quick questions and meet the one of 16 trader types that actually sounds like you.
Discover my trader type →What type of trader are you — really? 16Traders maps you across four dimensions (Decision Mode, Time Preference, Risk Attitude, Emotion Control) into one of 16 named types, so instead of a vague label you get a portrait of how you decide, how long you hold, and how you handle a losing streak. It's a self-reflection tool for spotting your patterns, not a clinically validated test and not a prediction of profit.
You've felt your pattern for years without a word for it. Four dimensions resolve into 16 named types — the Systematic Long-Term Holder, the Intuitive Scalper, and fourteen others — and one of them lands with a jolt of recognition.
Each type comes with a portrait: how you enter, what tempts you, where you hesitate. The uncanny part isn't the label — it's the paragraph underneath that names habits you thought were yours alone.
Your type only means something next to the ones you're not. Seeing that you're intuitive where others are systematic, or patient where others are twitchy, is what turns a label into actual self-knowledge.
Whether you trade S&P 500 futures, EUR/USD, or Bitcoin, your type travels with you — because it's a portrait of temperament, not a strategy for an asset class. Change the ticker and you'll recognize the same instincts at work.
Your answers place you in 1 of 16 types built from those four dimensions. Each has distinct strengths and blind spots:
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The free Lite assessment asks about your real decisions, timing, risk and reactions — no signup.
See your trader type and a plain-language read of your tendencies right away.
Compare the result with your trading journal and try one small change over your next 10 trades.
Your answers place you on four either/or dimensions — how you decide, your time horizon, your appetite for risk, and how you handle emotion. Those four choices combine into exactly one of 16 identities. We keep the mechanics under the hood; what matters is that every question asks what you'd actually do, not what the textbook says you should.
Recognizing yourself isn't the same as changing — the name doesn't rewire the habit. What it does is end the guessing about who you are at the screen, which is the honest starting point for any real work. Treat it as a mirror, not a trophy.
That usually means you sit near the middle of one dimension, and that's worth knowing in itself. Read both portraits; the one whose blind spots make you wince is almost always the closer fit. You can revisit later and see if the picture has settled.
It's a genuine self-reflection tool built on four behavioral dimensions, but it's not a clinically validated instrument and it isn't financial advice. The curiosity is the point — enjoy meeting your type, and hold the result as a prompt for reflection rather than a verdict.
Free, ~3 minutes, no email. One of 16 types is waiting to describe you — and you can go deeper with an optional $19.90 behavioral report afterward if you want.
Discover my trader type →TPI is a descriptive self-reflection tool — not clinically validated, not financial advice, and not a predictor of returns. Compare any result with your real trading behavior.