I think this post is being unfairly downvoted. The idea is that making money via stock market trading is hard and that doing it consistently is even harder.
Sure, one of us might be the next George Soros, but it's important to keep expectations curbed.
> Sure, one of us might be the next George Soros, but it's important to keep expectations curbed.
He made his first big money by shorting the pound, which (to me, oddly) turned out to be a self-perpetuating burn-it-all-down machine. Which required that he had the resources to place the bet in the first place, but much like LTCM, kind of self-funded after the first dominoe fell.
So - great financial system hacker! For sure!
Stock picker? I'm not quite so certain. (It's possible you know enough more about this than I, that I could be overlooking some great "picking" behavior. I'd love to learn.)
Sure, one of us might be the next George Soros, but it's important to keep expectations curbed.