I have been learning to trade the stock market for 2 years now and I still can't be consistently profitable no matter how many times I try. Each time when it seems like I almost make it, something will go wrong – revenge trading, emotional trading, fomo, too scared to buy back after getting stopped out, break my own rules etc.
I have also tried to buy and hold indexes / good companies and while i am also having paper losses now (due to the market obviously), the amount I lost is lesser and I don't feel as stressful holding onto them as compared to trading.
Because of this majority of my portfolio is now buy and hold. But I still keep a small portion to trade as I still want to try to make it. I recently started trading actively using this money again and guess what, the cycle repeats itself – from winning at first to losing streaks again. I have not been feeling this emotional because of the markets since I stopped trading temporarily a year ago. I get back into it because I see my friends that got into the game later than me making consistent profits from the market so I want to give it a go again, but seems like I just couldn't make it work for myself.
Am I just dumb, or is trading really not for everyone? Should I just stop and accept defeat? I don't lost as much money as before due to the portfolio allocation, but I still feel equally bad, if not worse for my own inability to do well in something that I have spent so much time learning and practising. It really sucks.
Sorry, just need a place to vent this all out as I don't have anybody to talk to about this irl.
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