Trading as an Escape Tool
When I started trading, I was really obsessed with the chart. My first 3 years I spent most of the time in the day, just going through the charts, learning what to do, how to do it and how to get more profits. Overall I wanted to get better in trading. That was the goal.
But as I am looking on my journey in retrospective way, I feel like I was running from myself more than learning how to trade.
I wanted to become somebody. I wanted to be part of community of traders. I wanted to know some skill other people can’t do. I always wanted to be somehow special and that’s maybe the reason why I chose one of the hardest businesses you can do - trading. There is no doubt about that that trading is very hard. Many traders say it and I - with my humble experience of 5+ years can nothing than agree.
You have to understand, that being a trader is not so much a profession, but more lifestyle choice or life direction you are willing to go through to get complete freedom. When you are going to try trading, you have almost guaranteed that you will be losing money and if you will not be aware of it and taking control of it, you can like A LOT of money. Like every single cent you have on your account. It can destroy your life, but on the other hand it can open huge opportunities, because as said previously, not too many people can do it well.
Your mind after you are trading for few years will start to be built differently. You think about the money very differently. You start seeing the hourly wage in the job not as the prize for your work, but more like the label how valuable you really are for the society, because you really can make the monthly salaries of people on one click. One click on the buy or sell button and you make monthly salary. How this experience can’t change you at all?
When I started working as a teenager, I used to do pretty a lot of hard work - constructions, security, bakery and many others. When I started to trade, I can’t really understand how people are blind and ignorant in terms of how much money they get for the work. I used to work whole days, 16 hours on constructions multi-days in the raw and at the end of the week I got 100$ and I was happy.
Being a trader is really a gift and the curse at the same time.
You start to see through the money, but the life is never the same after you start.
- Luke FT.