Great Short Opportunity, page-112

Mate trading isn't something to brag about, it is merely glorified gambling. You have a gambling addiction and need help. All the data shows that trading is a losing strategy compared to investing, no matter how good you are at drawing pretty shapes with your crayons on a chart. Not only do you get sub par or negative returns, but you also need to spend a significant amount of time in front of a computer, when you could just buy and hold whilst engaging in another income generating activity. Massive opportunity cost

There are no successful traders using tea leaves etc. Algo and HFT is a bit different but you're not doing that. Anyone who has made money in the stock market has done so by investing. Institutions etc. encourage it as it increases liquidity and makes them lots of $$$ thanks to brokerage, but they never use tea leaves themselves

The man revered as the founder of trading, Jesse Livermore, put a gun to his head after losing all his money treating the market like a casino. Maybe if we are lucky you will follow in the footsteps of this "great" trader