Why are traders lonely? If you truly choose to make trading your profession, please take a few minutes to read this carefully.
For those who make a living from trading, loneliness is the ultimate destination. If you want to choose trading as a profession, please make sure to read this thoroughly and prepare yourself mentally, because you are choosing to drink from the cup of loneliness for a lifetime. Loneliness is not solitude or emptiness; loneliness is a height of thought, a realm of life, and it is precisely because of these realms that one becomes even more lonely. For the seasoned veterans battling in the market for many years, they deeply understand this loneliness. They often wander alone between heaven and hell, bearing the pain of failure by themselves, and the joy of profit is at most like raising a cup to invite the moon, casting shadows that make three.
Because they know that all of this is earned through their own efforts. Full-time traders are a group of lonely people who think independently because there exists a greater spiritual world in their minds. They do not refrain from sharing their journeys with others, but rather, others cannot understand, and saying it is useless. Why is this the case? First, you will find that family members often find it hard to understand and support such choices. The concept of being a full-time trader has yet to be widely accepted, and making a living from trading means choosing a path fraught with difficulties. Even if you succeed after three or five years, your family might take it for granted and not understand the pressure you endured. If you unfortunately fail, your family might think you are not pursuing a proper career and may even label you as worthless. Secondly, trading forces you to constantly wrestle with human nature. In this process, you will experience ups and downs that exceed what most people can encounter in decades or even a lifetime. This is a process of reshaping oneself. After years of honing, your perspective and problem-solving methods will be different, and the essence of things will become clearer. This insight gradually distances you from others.
Just like 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 it? Therefore, your family and friends may feel that you are becoming increasingly strange; in reality, those who can understand you and connect with you are becoming fewer and fewer. In the market, traders who have fought for many years are all tough individuals who have forged their own paths. They each have their own set of trading methods and are only loyal to their own systems, showing little interest in others' methods. The philosophies of each trader are also different, so when they occasionally communicate, there isn’t much to talk about. The loneliness of traders is not intentional; at the end of this road, one can only win alongside loneliness.
The low period of trading is also accompanied by something else – severe depression. Additionally, old values completely shatter. Almost everyone doubts and misunderstands you. In trading, one falls into despair and madness: crying, isolation, bitter laughter, auditory hallucinations, unwillingness, anger, despair, and other negative emotions and mindsets. No one can express it; only self-redemption is possible. So I hope you are prepared, and I wish all traders smooth sailing!