Why do people who step away from trading become stronger, and why are traders lonely? If you truly choose trading as a livelihood, please take a few minutes to read this carefully.
For those who live by trading, loneliness is the ultimate destination. If you want to choose trading as a livelihood, please make sure to read this carefully and prepare yourself mentally, because you are choosing to drink with loneliness for a lifetime. Loneliness is not solitude or emptiness; it is a height of thought, a realm of life, and it is precisely because of these realms that one becomes more isolated. For those who have fought in the market for many years, they are well aware of this loneliness. They often wander alone between heaven and hell, bearing the pain of failure and the joy of profit alone, at most raising a cup to invite the bright moon, sharing the shadow as three.
Because they know that all of this is earned through their own efforts. Full-time traders are a group of lonely people; they think independently because there exists a larger spiritual world in their minds. They do not want to or cannot share their inner journeys with others, but because others cannot understand, it is useless to say it. Why is this the case? First, you will find that family often finds it difficult to understand and support such choices. The concept of full-time trading has not yet been widely accepted, and living by trading means choosing a path that is destined to be full of difficulties. Even if you succeed after three or five years, your family might take it for granted and not understand the pressure you bore. And if you unfortunately fail, your family might think you are not diligent and may deem you worthless. Secondly, trading requires you to fight against human nature constantly. In this process, you will experience fluctuations that exceed what ordinary people can experience in decades or even a lifetime. This is a process of reshaping oneself. After years of honing, your perspectives and problem-solving methods will be different from others, the essence and wisdom of things will become clearer, and this insight will gradually make you drift further away from others.
Just like the warriors crawling out of the trenches, they have witnessed the brutality of the battlefield, but how can those who have never experienced the battlefield understand? Therefore, your family and friends will feel that you are becoming more and more strange, and in reality, there are fewer and fewer people who can understand you and chat with you. Finally, the communication with like-minded friends also becomes less and less. Traders who have fought in the market for many years are all tough individuals who have carved their way through step by step. They all have their own trading methods and are loyal only to their own systems, showing little interest in others' methods, and each trader has different philosophies, so when they occasionally communicate, there isn't much to discuss. The loneliness of a trader is not intentional; in the end, this path can only be won alongside loneliness.
The low period of trading is also accompanied by something—severe depression. Additionally, the old values are completely shattered. There is also the abandonment, doubt, and lack of understanding from almost everyone. Falling into despair and madness in trading: crying, isolation, bitter laughter, auditory hallucinations, unwillingness, anger, despair, and other negative emotions and mindsets. No one can express it, only self-rescue. So I hope you are prepared, wishing everyone smooth trading!
