Well for your question about people that gain money even when the trading market is down, it is only when you predict that the market will go down that you can gain when the Market is actually down but when you predict that the market will go up and is going down there's no way you can still gain money from it so that's it, don't let anyone deceive you by telling you that even when they predict that the market will go up and it goes down that they are still making money, some people tell lies about there trading situation so you can see them as smart people and some also tell this lie's especially online so you can pay for them to teach you and when you pay they teach you opposite of what you paid for, it has happened to a friend of mine before similar thing like this and he paid to learn it and at the end of the day they taught him a different thing he was so angry because he has lost his money to something he didn't ask for, so I will advise you if you have not been taught about trading fine a good teacher that will teach you everything that you need to know very well so you won't be getting confused always.