데이 트레이딩도 도박? 그러면 40년 직장 생활도 마찬가지다 🤔

did God tell you to write this for me? 😂😂

Honestly couldn't have said it better myself. I've owned a retail/discount store, been a contractor and had a woodworking business, so starting a business from ground up and taking a risk is something I have always done, even when I was a Firefighter/EMT. Trading is me against the world were only a smidgen survive long term. I can at least say my over 10 years in the market has made me profitable to continue the hunt for my sanity!

I'm safe, but my start-up just laid off 25% of my coworkers yesterday. A start up is just another form of gambling.

Looking forward to the day I can replace my income with trading - luckily it keeps going up year over year, so it's a nice moving target, but it could be $0 tomorrow.

It isnt gambling. It's a test to see if you realize you arent in control and can take profit and protect your capital with stop losses.

Nothing wrong with loving the game, but I'd push on one thing: none of what you listed is technical skill that compounds. Charts, pressure, being locked in... that's the experience of trading, not the craft of it. The people I know who actually made it their thing learned Python, built data pipelines, studied ML, and got obsessive about measuring everything they do. They're also the quietest ones online. Curious, did you learn technical skills while you learned to trade?

Opinion: One reason day trading gets a bad rep is because the loudest voices are usually the least technical. Humans, especially high performing ones, are notoriously good at sniffing out bullshit. Example, during covid when I was nomadic I met so many "day traders". They were just young people that got into it via youtube and had big egos because they were "trading" in a bull market. I asked simple questions and they became red and floundered. Ended up that most of them were part of some discord group.

If you genuinely love it, the question worth asking is whether you're building skills that snowball , or just enjoying the feeling of being in the arena. If you like being in the arena then maybe being an entrepreneur and becoming laser focused on building a product that people love is for you. Did you try this route?

If you become one of the profitable ones its actually less risky than working a job where you could get fired any day. The main problem with trading for a living is that most will never be long term profitable, the majority has to lose in daytrading for the minority to make money. Then there's the fact that many people enjoy the illusion of safety that a 9-5 gives them even if it makes them unhappy.

I will say most successful daytraders are way happier than those going to a 9-5 that they hate thats for sure, you can be done with your day in 2 hours trading and you dont have to deal with narcissistic bosses.

💯

If you love this shit, do it. People will judge anyway. For me day trading is much more fun than patiently waiting for days to get your trade being executed.

Someone on here said it beats pouring concrete for 12 hours.

You dont loose money working. You are certain you receive money for work.

With trading you are not certain off an income.
You also could loose youre money by trading.


If it was so easy to make a steady income by trading many people would have quit their jobs

You should have primaiiry income out of work for your monthly expenses. You can trade or invest besides that.
Long term.
You will be more secure of return on investment long term.
You will not create a gambling addiction or end up revenge trading and hating yourself.
Youre locked in for hours you said. Watch out when time comes you get out less easy, and few hours will become more hours, and more trades..
You dont have to look at charts everyday....
By investing long term youre not all day thinking, about and watching the market. You will have a clearer mind and less stress. With trading you always wanna be in the market.
Sitting all day behind a computer, no people around, nothing to do, always in your own space will get you bored. Markets are flat much of the time.

Maybe you can get a job or do work you dont hate.
Maybe something with a purpose besides only work for money.


You can trade before or after work. Lots off different markets, market hours, or instruments 24hours to trade.

Keep your job. If trading/gambling makes you more in a long run. A aecure income for years. You can always quite the job.

Work gives something else too, a rithem to youre life.
Its good to have.

Its more or less like buying and selling products in an established physical market. Only thing is, you are dealing with products you don't see or touch; and the market? Well does not physically exist. Could that be gambling? Could be or perhaps not.

As long as you are minting your living out of, why care about others opinion, honestly? Some of the critics may not have what it takes that's all; capital, skills, time to burn on, &c.

I would just ignore & mint my quid!

Is it a gamble if you manage risk? It’s basically what everyone who has a 401k does.. some take more than others.

Louder for the 'just buy index funds bro' crowd in the back. 💀 There’s a massive difference between blindly gambling and actually mastering market psychology and risk management. Well said, OP.

Hoping you make it to retirement and they don’t downsize or make your position pointless.

Or 40 years doing anything, small business, serial startups, or working a job. 40 years is a long time, there’s plenty of recessions in that mix and who knows what happens to anybody, some people have solid jobs and some people lose them. In 40 years there could be health problems and other life situations that present large costs and perhaps things that move you backwards, and some maybe don’t even survive.

I’d run through a brick wall for you right now bro

Life is gamble.

You can be the smartest Farmer, have a sense for trends, use the right crops, have the perfect methods to grow them but you will never forecast the weather.

i agree this shit has changed my life & the way i think if others can’t compete with the happiness you are currently feeling then 🖕 them!! Enjoy the market brother!!

Not gonna lie, sounds a lot like something a gambler would say. The comparison to a stable income and retirement being a gamble is quite a delulu thing to say.