Most people, new traders and old are mostly talking about how difficult trading can be, the emphasis on the difficulty has discouraged some people from wanting to even consider becoming a trader.
Do you think non traders exaggerate about the difficulties in trading or it is hyped too much by people who are already traders? Or do you think it is not a hype, that trading is actually something very difficult?
Trading is indeed difficult to do because most people fail and only a small number succeed. I don't think this is an exaggeration but it is a fact that trading is difficult to do and try to see how many people have difficulty dealing with trading. Few people succeed when involved in trading and even for those who succeed in trading it takes a long time to start with creating success.
That is why people prefer investing over trading because it is not easy to achieve success. The conditions are much worse because when experiencing consecutive losses it will make someone lose a lot of money.