Well, if you know how to control your investment, you can achieve a high value of it. You have to be smart enough in reading the current trend in the market so that you will know the inflows and outflows of the investment you are investing.
Controlling your investment is not financial freedom because you are still working your way to make sure your investments are still working for you, not you working for them. If you invested on something and you just wait for the monthly payments, dividends, interests, that's financial freedom. You are earning without breaking a sweat.