It’s easier for rich people to get richer bcos of the social capital they’ve built over time.
When you start making money, it’s important people know you’re doing well. While some may see it as “showing off”, it can strengthen your social capital.
When people perceive you as wealthy and influential, they bring you opportunities, proposals and business deals because they believe you have the resources, connections or credibility to make things happen.
Those opportunities can help you grow your wealth even further.
I don’t know who needs to hear this…
but TRADING IS HARD.
Not “oh it takes a few months to learn” hard.
I mean soul-testing, mentally exhausting, break-you-before-you-build-you kind of hard.
You’ll wake up confident and go to bed questioning your life choices.
You’ll stare at charts for hours, take one bad trade, and feel like you’ve learned nothing.
You’ll swear you’re done - and somehow, you’ll still show up the next morning.
Everyone loves to post profits.
But no one talks about what it feels like to take 3 losses in a row and still have to show up with composure and discipline the next day.
Not living off affiliates.
Not living off subscriptions.
Trading as a main income - that‘s hard.
You carry pressure every single day.
The pressure to perform.
To stay patient when nothing’s setting up.
To trust your edge when everything inside you screams to cut early.
You start realizing it’s not just about the charts - it’s about managing yourself.
Your ego.
Your impulses.
Your emotions.
That’s what makes trading different from anything else in the world.
Because when you sit down every day and face uncertainty - with no boss, no paycheck, and no guarantees - you’re forced to grow as a person, or the market will break you.
I respect the real traders…
the ones who don’t fake wins,
who admit when they struggle,
who stay in the game when it would be easier to quit.
Because if you’ve ever truly been down bad, and still chose to sit back at your desk, review your plan, and execute again - you’ve already done what most can’t.
Trading will humble you before it ever rewards you.
It’ll test your patience, your mindset, your belief in yourself.
But once you’ve survived the pain, once you’ve learned to stay calm in chaos, that’s when you start to see what this game is really about.
It’s not about flexing wins.
It’s not about catching every move.
It’s about becoming the version of yourself who’s disciplined enough to survive long enough to win.
That’s trading.
And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.
Becoming profitable trader come with a lot of realizations.
First, it’ll brainwash you about money, no money will ever be too big for you to achieve. It’ll change your mindset about money completely
Second, Humbleness , before becoming profitable, that ego you have, after making some small money, or having some good runners and winning back to back, will all perish, market will deal with you severely, it’ll prove to you that’s it’s the only king, and you are nothing , you mean no nothing to market, it doesn’t even care about you, it’ll position you at your place to understand that those winning streaks and runners never take you even close to being a mini market maker or mini market God, nothing like that exist, the blown accounts, loosing streaks, trenches will make you accept that defeat. After market deal with you, and you finally become profitable, then humbleness will kick in, you’ll start accepting the fact that 10 loosing streaks can happen to you, that you are only good because of risk management not because you can read the charts or the fundamentals like no other trader.
Third, that less is more, the less you do trade your way, the less the urge to take every random trade to post on social to seek for validation, the less to brag, the less number of trades translate into something meaningful, profitable and sustainable.
Market is the biggest teacher, but time is the determining factor to the amount of lesson you’ll acquire
The key to living a comfortable life is confrontation and chaos actually. You have to say no. You have to tell people to fck off. You have to be mean in necessary situations.
High intelligence often comes with heightened pattern recognition. You start noticing social masks, forced conversations, performative friendships, hidden motives, emotional immaturity, and energy that feels draining instead of nourishing. Many highly intelligent people also have more active nervous systems, deeper inner worlds, and lower tolerance for superficial stimulation, so solitude can feel safer than constantly shrinking themselves to fit environments that don’t feel aligned.