Adrian Reid argues that people often mistakenly think they can quit their job and immediately trade for a living. He emphasizes that trading requires learning first (not learning on the job), compares careless entry to attempting brain surgery without training, and highlights that once learned, trading is a highly scalable skill requiring little daily time regardless of account size.
I'm not sure what it is about trading and the financial markets that people think, oh, I'll just quit my job and I'll just trade for a living. It's like, what? I'll just quit my job and I'll become a brain surgeon, right? It's like, no, you won't, because you'll kill a few people while you're learning, and then you won't ever get a job as a brain surgeon. And people also come to the markets thinking, oh, I'll make some money and then I'll pay for the course. To become a trader, it's like, that's like practicing brain surgery to pay for medical school. That doesn't work either, right? You actually have to learn first. And most people, when they realize they've got to learn, think, oh, it's too hard. But the amazing thing about trading in the markets is that it's absolutely worth the learning. It's worth the time and the energy and the investment to learn. Because once you learn, you've got decades where you can make money with an extra skill.
You know, if I taught a trading system to someone, that might take a little bit of time, a couple of weeks, to teach them how to trade systematically and teach them that system, or a couple of months if they really want to get everything out of my head and learn trading. But then after that, they're independent forever and you can trade. I trade. My training takes 20 minutes a day or less, most days, in fact. And.
It doesn't matter if I'm trading $10,000 or $10,000,000, it takes the same amount of time. So it's amazingly scalable, which is beautiful because it means you can keep growing your wealth, you can keep building, but you don't have to take more and more and more time. If you get a promotion at work, usually that comes with extra responsibility and more work and more hours and more stress, but trading is not like that.
