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You can't trade your way to the top

Lots of semi-to-fully-autistic terminally online types get into trading stocks/options/crypto because they believe they can outsmart the system.

They think - against all odds - they’ll be the One Guy who buys at the bottom and sells at the top.

Sure, statistically speaking someone will do it. But it’s not going to be you.

You’re on the internet right now, so of course you can always find a guy who traded his way to the top while working night shifts at Applebees or whatever (and he might even be telling the truth), but as a percentage of the population the amount of people who can do it is basically zero.

You can’t trade your way to the top

The idea that you can trade your way to financial freedom is a load of BS.

Almost every single rich person that exists became rich by building a business.

Everyone who gets into trading thinks they’re going to be the ‘cool’ Wall Street guy from the movies who constantly chews gum for some reason and screams curse words into a phone that they hold between their ear and shoulder because obviously they’re so busy and important that they need their hands free to do important finance things and can’t bother to actually hold the phone with them: “Fuck you cocksucker I want 200 fuck your 185 the price is 200 SOLD put it in the chute WOOOOO”.

But in reality you end up sitting in your underwear at 10AM on a Tuesday, hunchbacked and bleary-eyed, staring at a screen while eating a DoorDashed ‘meal’ and saying to yourself: “I just lost $27k wtf”.