Speaker (Kardec Trader) recounts how reading Forbes led them to discover that top earners were hedge fund managers, which sparked curiosity about what hedge fund managers do. Motivated to get involved in the stock market, the speaker opened a trading account, reviewed historical trades, and noted the common hindsight reasoning—"if I bought here and sold here I could have made this much"—as the catalyst for their entry into trading.
So I went on Forbes.com and I was like, hey, last year, who made the most amount of money? And I think the top two or three people were hedge fund managers. And I was like, hey, what is a hedge fund manager, right? I have no idea. So if I look at a hedge fund manager and, like, going down the rabbit hole, I was like, oh, wow, these are people that kind of manage money for other people in the stock world. So I was like, okay, I want to get involved in stocks. So I look it up, and it's like, you know, you can open an account in two seconds, fund it, and take on trades. So then I started looking at old trades. I'm like, wow, if I bought here and I sold here, I could have made this much money. And that's what essentially everyone does when they look at the markets, right? They're like, oh, if I bought here and this much, And I'm like, how hard can this? So that's ultimately what got me into it.
