If you know some real traders who are living a good life, then that proves that traders could be making money in the market constantly. With experience and expertise they develop in trading, it help them to become profitable in their trades. However, there could be uncontrolled losses but as long as they make more money compared to the amount of their losses, then that’s good to say that they are still doing well in trading, financially and emotionally.
You are probably talking about public traders, because there are traders who do not show their results publicly, that is why I think we do not see all the statistics regarding the number of successful traders. I also think that most of them care about their privacy in order to remain invisible to others. Money loves silence, you need to remember this and it is better not to show off your successes, because I very often see stories about extortion from scammers.
There are traders decide to do that, but actually not all traders are the same as what you have said here. Since there are some traders show their result maybe just to flaunt their gains and celebrate it. We can't also deny that there are people choose to hide their gains since they don't want to get disturb since we know there are so many people creating unnecessary commotion that provably can disturb those people who want to remain silent and secretive on their trades made.
If they see someone offering a certain like to good to be true offer then usually and say something that they can bring a passive profit to them if they invest or let them handle their trades since for sure they are dealing with the scammers so better avoid people offering a to good to be true schemes to them.
When it comes into those huge gains on which a certain trader would really be able to do so and showing it publicly on social media then just like what you've said that there's no way that we can be able to tell whether its just simply flexing out or they do really that totally trying to hook up people for them to be followed and will be asking for some sub fees but actually if you do really think up sensibly on why the heck they will really be trying out to have those kind of source when they could actually be able to do it on the moment that they will really be making some profitable trades? Sometimes it isnt really that so hard to make up some questions basing up on the reality that you are really that able to see around. As for being a trader then it will really be just that depending or basing up on how good your are on learning up things. I do agree on to those things above that learning duration will be basing up on how well you do able to learn up everything along the way on which we know that not all people will really be having that good memory when it comes on memorizing or remembering things and thats why on the time or moment that they will really be able to encounter on the same scenario on their trading sessions then there are those traders who do really knows on what are the things that they should gonna do since they have experienced it earlier, and there is that still continue to make mistakes just because he had just simply forgotten.