This is exactly how trader think, 100% of the time, they feel that thr longer their money is in an investment, the higher their chance of losing it, so instead of going into long term investments, they go for short term trading with hopes of cashing out early, most trader go into tradieto feel among, their peers are on a relatively good amount of cash and they believe trading evens the playing field for them, they believe it gives them the chance to catch up to their peers so they put their money into trading rather than investing it, they fail to realize that in their attempt to make quick cash they end up losing greater opportunity.