You are not a “trader.” You are a donation box for Goldman Sachs.
You open your brokerage app ten times an hour. You panic when the line goes down. You feel like a genius when the line goes up. You tell your friends you are “playing the market.”
Let’s cut the crap. You are not building wealth. You are nursing a gambling addiction in a cheap suit.
The financial world loves idiots like you who confuse Investing with Trading. You think they are the same? No. One is a path to freedom; the other is a path to the poorhouse for 99% of you. Unless you have the discipline of a monk and the bankroll of a cartel, active trading is just a fancy way to light your money on fire.
The Enemy: Your Addiction to “Action”
Your enemy isn’t the hedge funds. It isn’t the Fed. It is your own desperate need for dopamine. Investing is boring. It is like watching grass grow. It is painful because it offers zero adrenaline. You choose Trading because your life is empty and you need the rush.
Yvan Byeajee didn’t just give advice; he gave a diagnosis: “If you’re chasing instant riches… you view the market as a lottery.” The stock market is a machine designed to transfer money from the impatient (you) to the patient (the professionals). Every time you make a trade based on a “gut feeling,” a professional trader thanks you for your contribution to his yacht fund.
Weapon 1: The Boring Path (Investing)
Investing is the art of suppressing your ego. It is about buying assets—stocks, bonds, ETFs—and ignoring them until your hair turns gray.
The rule is simple: Time in the Market destroys Timing the Market. You think you can predict the top? You can’t. You think you can call the bottom? You’re delusional.
The Strategy: Dollar-Cost Averaging (The Idiot-Proof Method) This strategy works because it removes you from the equation. You buy the same amount every month, regardless of the news. When the market crashes? You buy more on sale. When the market soars? Your wealth grows. It requires zero skill. It only requires the ability to sit on your hands and do nothing. But for you, doing “nothing” is the hardest thing in the world because you are addicted to the illusion of control.
Weapon 2: The Meat Grinder (Trading)
Trading is not a side hustle. It is a bloodsport. Traders exploit short-term price inefficiencies. They are fighting algorithms that react in microseconds.
If you insist on entering this arena, know what you are up against:
- Technical Traders: They don’t care about the news. They read charts like autopsies.
- Fundamental Traders: They trade on data releases before you even refresh your browser.
The Reality of Risk: Real traders use leverage and strict stop-losses because they know they could be wrong. You? You trade without a stop-loss because you can’t admit failure. You hold onto losing positions hoping they will “come back.” That is not trading. That is hope. And hope is not a strategy; it is a tragedy.
The Psychological Slaughter
You fail because you are an emotional child. The market preys on your fragility:
- Revenge Trading: You lose $1,000, so you bet $2,000 to win it back. Congratulations, you just lost $3,000.
- Analysis Paralysis: You stare at indicators until your eyes bleed and miss the obvious move.
- Confirmation Bias: You search Google for “why [stock] will go up” just to feel better about your terrible entry.
- Ego: You mistake a bull market for brains. A rising tide lifts all boats, even the ones with holes in them.
The Kill Shot
Here is your binary choice, and I don’t care which one you pick, but pick it now.
Option A: Admit you are incompetent. Put your money in a boring index fund, set up auto-deposit, and go live your life. You will die rich.
Option B: Quit your job, study the markets for 10 years, master your psychology, and treat this like a profession.
Option C (What you are doing now): Keep gambling. Keep “guessing.” Keep feeding your money to the professionals.
Burn your trading account today or accept that you are the sucker at the table.
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