This happens to everyone but you just have to be there at the right time I think. For you to have luck, you must be at the right time when you don't even know things of such is going to happen. I have for once set up a trade, it was actually sell short on futures with some few dollars, I was just scalping and then I open the last one before I went to sleep and something just woke me up and I check my phone and I saw the market was down, I had 235% ttat night, 6 times bigger than what I do have from trading.
This is not the first time, there are couple of time I have experience this and anytime I make this profit, I immediately stopped trading, that's what some newbies don't understand. They get over excited and open more new positions on their trading and they don't know that sometimes trading is more about luck and it doesn't repeat all the time.
Maybe this is the only time I can agree with you when you talk about luck in trading, it is when it comes to scalping. Day trading is the hardest, and I remember when I was day trading, it is very hard to fall asleep with an open trade and you wake up several times during the night to check the status of the trade. I don’t know, for me it is too hard to do it all the time, in the end I decided that medium and long term trading are the most suitable types of trading for me, it does not take so much time and I can sleep peacefully, which is very important for my emotional state.