I can also assure you most of us, myself included are bad traders. The only really good traders I knew in the past were very very few, and they actually trade on behalf of brokers long term. They take requests of orders, they enter at good price and exit at better prices than they were quoted.
Makes a big difference when its not your money. and when youre not degen trying to 10x.
Yeah, most of us here are not even close to pro traders. I think we are soft gamblers who are trading to earn money and in some ways even addicted to trading all the time. The real pro traders are the opposite of this. They would not want to trade and work on this like a job. Similar to how a professional sportsman may not like playing the sport anymore but he is great at it, while college football players have a lot of passion but lack the skills.Makes a big difference when its not your money. and when youre not degen trying to 10x.
I don't think I am addicted to trading but definitely I make way too many trades and decisions based on emotions rather than market analysis and charts understanding. But there is no doubt that trading is addictive just like gambling and the worst part is you don't realize that because trading is not seen as a bad thing which gambling always is.
Thats 100% how I started and how I saw myself, looking to earn a bit of side income. But realizing I spent way, way, way too much time trying to earn a few bucks, get so stressed and lacking sleep and healthy food and exercise that I understood I had become just a gambler, 10x worse than in a casino.
The real pros, like you said, the ones I knew didn't live like this. They actually do have a normal job, usually with a broker or at least a sort of contract where they make orders and make analysis, and actually do NOT themselves use their capital in short term.
I'm still in this forum trying to spread the wisdom as an ex trader who learn my lessons. I see a lot of people posting, reminds me of me. If I can make one person see and save himself, I did my job
