Find people that inspire you, do better than you are doing now, have skills you do not yet posses. Be grateful for them. Because when you drop your insecurtity and jealousy, those people will light the path to the next level.
New traders want too much too fast. Most are not willing to put in the amount work and time it takes to build a solid foundation of knowledge and expertise. My advice; start small and think long term. Make an investment in yourself and remove can't and quit from your vocabulary.
Don't memorize patterns, candlesticks, etc.
If you want to get better at this game, ask yourself:
What are traders on the sideline thinking?
Where will other traders get trapped?
Where’s the path of least resistance?
Where will new players enter?
Where will losers cut loss?
Once a stock breaks out of a base, that's only the beginning. Where the rubber meets the road is during the pullbacks and gauging if the stock is acting normal or abnormal. Is your stock a tennis ball or an egg (or perhaps an egg in disguise)? That question has made me millions.
@traderDanielle If $GOOGL beating earnings & announcing 20 to 1 stock split only to fall to under 200 sma doesn’t tell a story of the times we are in, then I don’t know what does.
People will go to school for 8 years (or more) for a paycheck, but they get discouraged if they're not killing it in the stock market after only a few years. Make a champion commitment and you will have a chance at champion results.