Why sell products?

There are two honest motivations.

First, I’ll be frank. There are two motivations.

One is a simple business decision to have multiple pillars of income. Even if you were earning stable revenue from trading, relying on just one source can be a long-term risk. Creating an additional revenue stream in education seems like a rational choice for a business.

The other is a desire to show traders who are in the same suffering as I once was that there is a path. It may sound like a prettified story, but this is the truth. If not for this second motivation, I wouldn’t have bothered to dive into the labor of education.

Two years of losses. I will say things I would rather not remember.

Back then, I was always searching for the “holy grail.”

Somewhere there should be a special method that only those who keep winning know. If I could obtain that, I believed I could change too. So I kept gathering information relentlessly.

However, I was not putting in real effort.

I confused consuming information with learning. I spent far more time watching someone’s broadcasts than facing the charts. As a result, my account balance naturally trended downward.

When funds were almost depleted, I finally felt a real sense of urgency.

I know the words. But I don’t know how to use them.

I had some trading terms. Dow theory, pullbacks, support/ resistance turns. I only had the words as tools.

But I didn’t know how to use them.

This is an essential problem many traders fall into. Knowing something as knowledge and being able to “use” it in front of an actual chart are on completely different levels. I hadn’t built the criteria for where entry is and where it isn’t inside myself.

I focused on thoroughly digesting this in my own interpretation and embedding it into my bodily sense. I saw no other way to obtain an answer.

Every morning from 5 a.m., I did nothing but past-verification.

At that time I was a office worker. During the day I did my job, tested the method on small funds, and in the mornings at 5 a.m. I woke up before work to devote time to past-verification. It was a repeating cycle.

For the first three months, there was no sign of progress.

Profits and losses were almost flat, or a small loss. It was an ambiguous state of whether there was any tangible result. Still, I continued the verification because there was nothing else I could do.

The turning point came when the monthly result finally turned positive for the first time. The amount wasn’t large, but I still remember the feeling vividly. It felt as if I had finally been liberated. It felt as if the hard two years had finally paid off.

The structure of losses always resides inside you.

Even after you start winning, I didn’t stop verifying. I relentlessly focused on establishing rules.

In that process I came to one conviction: the losses in trading basically come from patterns you yourself create.

If you can’t trade according to your rules, it’s because you don’t have enough past verifications. You can’t rely on the market moves because you lack confidence in your own rules.

Taking a position when it looks like a chance is the same. You haven’t trained your body to distinguish what is a real opportunity and what isn’t.

Inability to manage funds also stems from the same root. The thought process of calculating lot sizes from the risk you take isn’t built in.

The real meaning of watching economic news.

Studying words. Reading economic news. Understanding world affairs. Many traders place these activities under “study of trading.”

However, for a typical trader to fight on the same field as professionals is structurally impossible. The speed and quality of information are fundamentally different.

What a typical trader should polish is the ability to read charts reliably. How to add expected value to a zero-sum game. How to tilt probabilities in your favor. Focusing on that alone is, in my view, the path to reproducible wins.

Choosing the right mentor is the shortest path.

Before I could win, I kept watching people who were described as “winning.”

But crucial parts were not taught by anyone.

Why? Because they posted for free.

Techniques are undoubtedly assets for the person who created them. Now that I’m in a position to win, I understand this well. Even if you teach someone the method for free and they start winning, you cannot derive monthly profit from them. There is nothing left for the teacher.

That’s why you should receive compensation for conveying the method. I believe this is a completely natural relationship. Free content has some value, but free content cannot have more value than what you get for paying.

Keep this in mind as you search for a mentor or method, and you’ll drastically shorten wasted time.