How to become a trader?

Hello everyone, friends. This post is a kind of cry from my soul =) Do not judge too much, it’s better to just read it.

How do people come into trading? Often, seeing an ad / video or just hearing from a friend that there are some charts and you can earn something on them. Wild interest arises in you, because in this very advertisement the penthouse millionaire broadcasts that he successfully trades by the color of the candle, which he wants for you too, and even tells you how to do it - in a private group. The continuation of this story, you probably know by yourself =). Well, here you are, after a lot of time spent searching for something, you have nothing but disappointment and anger. You begin to consider all this a scam, a game, and in general - it's time to go to work at the factory. By the way, about the factories - it’s wonderful when a person is 100% skilled in his field, and it doesn’t matter what position he works in as a turner, CNC machine operator, doctor, teacher, etc. All specialties are important and necessary - if a person is 100% immersed in the process. States hold on to such people. This is the thing he knows. It gives pleasure to such people. But such people are few, unfortunately. Either the specialist is not valued or something goes wrong. Money always wants more and at a lower cost. That is exactly so. They go into trading for money, and mistakenly believing that they are easy. I do not need to tell tales that you would like to trade for a hobby - this is complete nonsense. There are a huge number of hobbies in the world that relax your nervous system, and do not bring it to the edge. At heart you see big earnings behind the chart. So, the first conclusion is that they go into trading for money. The second conclusion is that money can give you some freedom if you manage money properly. However, when reading this post you will have a dissonance - how is this possible? Either the nervous system is brought to the edge, or everything is complicated and at the same time “some kind of freedom has flashed”. I'll tell you. 

Before you start earning, you will certainly meet the liquidation of your account many times and damn everything in the world - brokers, charts, even your monitor may suffer (one of my monitors was broken with a fist last year, for example). How to minimize this? First of all, you need to understand that you really want it. Become a trader. It should be a solid, balanced decision. This should not be a passing impulse, but it should not be an obsession. Just a firm decision that you need it and you yourself know the answer to the question - why. Well, you have decided. OK. Move on)
The next stage is the study of the material. This is about a year. Maybe a little less if you are lucky to find suitable material immediately. Read, watch, analyze, think with your own head. Yes, to think with your own head - only your own conclusions based on good material will be able to form a foundation of knowledge.
Well, soon the third stage is coming up, and you already want to open a broker website, you all know, and are ready to enter a deposit. No. The next stage is psychology. You should have a stable income for yourself or your family, you should have food, a roof over your head, you should not have crushing mortgages, loans or anything else that you would like to fix trading in a week. Thus, now, at this stage, you do not even think and do not think that you will start to earn something substantially. You are psychologically ready and relaxed, your task at this stage is to start trying on your knowledge on the chart. You are not trading yet. But you look at the charts, methodically noting interesting points, make forecasts on paper. YES, in a paper notebook, but you will find it boring and you will make a deposit. It will be eliminated with a probability of 99 percent. It's true. Here you will begin persecution - how so... so much time is spent on studying, and the result is negative. And here, if you don’t break, if you find the strength to study the same material for the second or third time, to study your mistakes (are they written in a notebook, right?)) - then the door to the trading world will open slightly. Because very few people get money in trading from the very first time. And here it’s good to find comrades in the subject, some kind of community where there are beginners, a little more experienced, and maybe already quite experienced traders. The next stage begins - rethinking information from the point of view of its applied use through the experience of other traders. This does not mean that you will start trading like someone else. But you will see the features of what he applies and what does not. There will already be examples before our eyes, and not just trading from the penthouse by the color of the candle. If you still do not have a notebook, then it's time to get it. And record, record, record... record the experience of those who get something with a positive mathematical expectation. And if in your head there are no stupid thoughts to earn a million in a week with zero experience, then gradually something will start to turn out for you... Your forecasts will come true. Another couple of three liquidated deposits will be revealed to you by your internal demons, you will understand that money management and risk management are necessary. But they are all different.. about this I will write a separate article someday. At least after a year of immersion in trading, everything should start to work out for you...

To summarize so much confused article, I would like to note the features that a trader should have:

determination
composure
you should not suffer from greed
you have a "wide" focus of attention - you can analyze many streams of information
you have logical thinking
you are able to think critically
in one or two seconds you can make a decision and it should not go against your best practices and plans
..... and there are many more ...