Today a trader friend was poured cold water on me because he wanted to quit his job and devote himself to full-time trading from home.
I said that you don't want to get involved as a wage earner, and only those who have been bosses have the opportunity to do a good job in full-time trading, because full-time trading is to be your own boss.
He said that he just wanted to be a boss, and he didn't want to continue working, and he was fed up with the taste of part-time work.
This friend found me in the morning, he has been doing foreign exchange intermittently for more than two years, has not done a good job, and now he can do it without making or losing, but he has not achieved profitability, he likes foreign exchange trading very much, saying that this is his dream, he is very envious of my life like this while trading full-time while idle clouds and wild cranes.
He said that the reason why he was not profitable before was because sometimes he was distracted by being busy with work, because he did not invest enough energy and time to become professional, and if he put himself into it, he would quickly find a way to make money.
I said what do you do.
He said that he was engaged in a technical position in an Internet company, he was a science and engineering graduate, very rational, very good at mathematics, and his execution was also very good, and he also overcame some advanced technical problems in the company.
I said how about your income.
He said that 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a month is okay in Hangzhou, but now he has a mortgage, so he has not saved a lot of money over the years, and he is still in a state where he has not achieved financial freedom. Now I'm in a situation where I can't make a fortune and it's not very bad, and I've always wanted to break through.
I said that your job is okay, if you quit your job, you will have no income, if the transaction is not done well, then you will lose both, and the gains outweigh the losses.
He said that he doesn't like his current job very much, and he changed his leadership last year, and now the working environment is very depressing, and he is uncomfortable, and he also has a trading dream, so he wants to come out of full-time trading. He said that he was only in his thirties, and he couldn't just lie down like that, he still had to fight for what he wanted to do, and he had to chase the life he wanted to live.
I said that this idea is very good, but the result of foreign exchange trading is nine deaths, and it is rare to be able to achieve financial freedom by full-time trading, and most of the endings are miserable, you have to think about it. I'm afraid that when you run out of money, time will be wasted, and it will be difficult for people to return to the workplace and find a job with such an income when they reach middle age.
He said that he was not afraid, he had thought about it, and I should be able to make a stable profit in a year, and if it still doesn't work after a year, I will go back to continue working. He also said that teacher, you are also a full-time trader, and you can do it well, which means that there is still a chance. I must fight for my dreams, otherwise I will be very unwilling.
Talking about this, I really admire his enterprising spirit, and I also agree that he has the courage to chase the life and things he likes, and I also seem to see what I used to be.
Although I have also been a full-time trader over the years, I have done well in trading, and I have achieved a certain amount of financial freedom by trading. But as a person who has come before, trading is to bring me light, but in the process of experiencing countless darkness and quagmire, it is really too painful, I have been on the verge of collapse countless times, but I was lucky to survive the danger once, if one of the steps went wrong, it may not be what it is today. As a professional trader, persuading others not to quit their jobs and trade full-time is like a good police officer who is reluctant to let his son continue to be a police officer.
The process of trading is not a gallop, but a bleak wind and cold rain, and the top of the trading mountain is not a applause streamer, but a lonely and lonely.
In addition, he has been in a part-time job for many years, and has formed a part-time job thinking, which does not conform to the characteristics of a full-time trader winner, I tell you, full-time trading is to be your own boss, invest your own money, choose a good investment target, find investment opportunities, formulate trading strategies, do your own execution, control your own money, and be responsible for your own results.
Why did I pour cold water on her?
Just because he is still not ready, he is still working part-time thinking, if you use part-time thinking to be in the investment transaction, then the result is failure, from the process of chatting with him, I think that his thinking has been qualitative, or self-centered, although he also often reads my content, but he is addicted to his own set of work, and is still studying technology, so the result is easy to drill the horns, and the final result is just to become a technician or analyst.
Successful full-time traders are boss thinking, that is, speculative thinking, the way they improve their trading skills is not to rely on their own pondering and research, but to find a master in the market with results to learn, others what methods are good to use, in the process of learning and copying master methods to improve cognition, so as to find a more effective way to suit themselves.
At this point, you should understand that the essence of trading is speculation, not technology. Those who know technology are wage earners, and those who can make profits are speculators, that is, bosses.
For traders who want to trade full-time, my advice is to start a business for a few years, become a qualified boss yourself, and then enter a more advanced financial market, so that you have a little chance.
Otherwise, if you want to trade full-time and cross into the high-end financial market, wouldn't it be a shame for you?
Venture capital is very anti-human, while financial investment is not only anti-human, but also anti-personal.
I will share it here today, many people like to see the content I share, this is the value of my continuous sharing, if you have any questions, you can leave a private message in the headlines, I will return when I see it, because of your existence along the way, so that the fixed transaction is no longer lonely, encourage you, we will see you next time.
Author: Zhao Huagang