It turns out that in 2018, Hector, a boy with no trading knowledge and really a novice in the matter of cryptocurrencies, was advised by a trader whose experience was slightly greater and better than his; to buy an amount of BTC that wouldn't affect his pocket and that he could leave there as a lost thing for an indefinite time until the experienced trader would notify him again...
The inexperienced trader, new to this, bought in 2018, when the price of a BTC was around 6600 dollars just 0.33 BTC... that is, just 2200 dollars that he could gather with great sacrifice.
That's very little, any futures trader would say, I buy it even in a single leveraged trade.
But hey! it turns out that the futures trader did all sorts of tricks just to barely grow his account; he won, lost, and sometimes made hedges that took him time to resolve or that he simply closed at losses or break-even, while the other investor, ignorant, novice, and practically without ideas, who was advised, just waited. So after some time, 6 years to be precise, the experienced trader saw that bitcoin had reached the modest amount of 99000 dollars, so he decided to call his friend...
What's up, Hector? He said, I suppose you still have your investment in BTC?
And right here the story takes a phenomenal turn...
Well, Hector, against all odds and more out of ignorance than anything else, held his position and didn't sell, and now his friend tells him... 'Hector, check your investment' and he, having no idea what was going on, saw how his balance increased by 15 times its initial value, it was almost fainting for him. He couldn't believe he had invested just 2200 dollars and now had 33000 dollars in his account, which in conversion to Mexican pesos would currently be 660000 pesos, just for waiting, without doing absolutely anything and without pretending to be an expert, he did something he would never have thought, his investment of just 42000 Mexican pesos had turned into a very juicy profit.
Hector, amazed by this, tells the experienced trader, hey thanks a lot, really... While the experienced trader answers in a dry voice and a bit annoyed inside, 'You're welcome'...
The novice trader asks the one he considers his mentor, who was also the one who gave him the advice to invest... 'And how did it go for you? Surely you made a fortune, right?; well, you were the one who gave me the advice, surely you have much more.'
To which the 'experienced' trader responds, certainly furious and annoyed, —No, how I wish— yes I won, but I didn't have the ability to understand the potential of a medium-term investment, I decided to do futures, believe myself a professional trader and unnecessarily risked my money and I could have made profits but without the sense of urgency I would have made the same or more than you without having done absolutely anything...
What does this brief scene teach us?
That trading a lot doesn't make you richer or give you better returns, that urgency, impatience, and risk can make us lose money and that if you know how to invest you can turn a small amount into a very good profit.
And you, are you Hector or the 'experienced' trader?