Never knew that all three of you are not yet profitable. Hope you guys do well in future. I come to this forum just for entertainment. Mostly to keep myself awake during trading hours. This works for me.
It takes whatever educated guesses lead to. I started trading in 2019 and was highly profitable until mid 2021. Then I became highly unprofitable until 2024. Now I'm back to highly profitable since Nov 5. If you see a pattern mirroring how the market has been behaving over the past 5 years, it's because there is.
It's not that dramatic. LOL Trading is just processing transactions. Yes the journey can be arduous but at the end of the day, they are just transactions. You need to take emotions out of it. There is no "top" or "bottom", only analysis, taking the most suitable action according to the analysis performed and risk management. That's it.
So I suppose you would also consider starting a small business is a gambler's guessing game too? Most small businesses fail, at a high rate, as well.
Ahhh I gotcha, see? It can be “arduous”. You agree in some form that it’s quite dramatic. Many times hardship are likened to some abstract idea and attached to an illustration to give commonality to it. Thus a story is born. For example the “turtle and the hare” or the “scorpion and the frog”. I just did the same with the nature of trading. It’s “You and the Mountain”. Buy yeah, in the most simplest terms, it is “just making transactions”. But even so these simple transactions require much more than just pressing a button for the transaction to happen in your favor and continuously overtime, correct? All of what that entails can be “Mountainous”. And there is only two levels of significance on a mountain. At its peak - the top. Or at it’s base - the bottom. Though however someone views their own success in trading is relative to them. Each person climbs their own mountain.