☎️ Surviving these three challenges, it's hard not to make money!

First Challenge: Emotional Challenge Under Account Fluctuations

When your account is in profit, do you impulsively increase your position? After a few consecutive losses, can you keep your hands steady and avoid revenge trading? If you feel nervous every time you place an order and are led by profits and losses every day, then you are not ready to trade full-time.

Actually, it’s not that the strategy doesn’t work, it’s that your ability to withstand pressure hasn’t kept up. The real challenge of trading isn’t the market, but your own attitude towards gains and losses. If you haven’t managed to stabilize your emotions and not be swayed by profits and losses, then this job will only consume you more and more.

Second Challenge: Endurance Challenge of Long-term Ineffectiveness

Trading is not a quick success. This may be the cruelest but also the most honest truth in the trading world.

Many people start trading thinking it’s a “quick business.” They learn techniques for three months, run a real account for half a year, and expect to achieve stable profits within a year, even “making a living from trading.” But I can responsibly say that most people need 2–3 years to achieve initial stable profits, and to rely on it for a living, you must at least endure the earlier phase of “investment without visible results.”

It was only in my fourth year that I began to profit slowly, and in my fifth year that I felt stability. Before that, all my perseverance was supported by that little bit of belief.

You should ask yourself a question: If you don’t make money from trading for 3 years, will you continue?

If the answer is “very difficult,” then don’t rush to take up trading as your main source of income.

Third Challenge: Pressure from Real-Life

Trading, especially if you want to rely on it to support yourself, involves not only technical and psychological issues but also facing the tests of life itself.

The most realistic question is: Do you have a stable cash flow?

In the early stages of trading, it’s hard to achieve stable profits. If you don’t have other sources of income, every trade will be hijacked by the “pressure to make money.”

What you want to do is make objective judgments, but in your mind, you’re thinking: I haven’t paid the mortgage this month, the child’s education expenses, my wife’s expenditures, etc., so I absolutely cannot lose on this trade today.

When life is tied to trading, it becomes less pure. This is not a technical issue but a problem of life support not keeping up.