--- title: 'You Won''t Make a Living from Trading (The Truth Nobody Tells You)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=OCe53j5yu9g' video_id: 'OCe53j5yu9g' date: 2026-08-05 duration_sec: 850 --- # You Won't Make a Living from Trading (The Truth Nobody Tells You) > Source: [You Won't Make a Living from Trading (The Truth Nobody Tells You)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OCe53j5yu9g) ## Summary The video is a candid, motivational talk by an experienced day trader with over 10 years in the market. He argues that most people will never make a living from trading because they focus on money and results rather than the process. He emphasizes that true success comes from focusing on the process, following a methodology, and using trading as a tool for personal growth, which indirectly leads to financial prosperity. ### Key Points - **Most people won't make a living from trading** [00:03] — The speaker states that most people who watch the video will become part of the statistics of those who fail. He emphasizes that regardless of the method (price action, SMC, options, forex, crypto, B3), day trading is one of the most difficult ways to make money online. - **Focusing on money prevents results** [00:45] — The core mistake is thinking that results will change if you just keep trying. As long as you are focused on the money, you won't get results, no matter the technique or market. - **Only a few dozen out of thousands succeed** [00:59] — With over 10 years of experience and thousands of students, only a few dozen have made a living from trading. This proves it is possible but extremely difficult. - **The hardest part is focusing on the process** [01:39] — Analyzing charts, managing money, and emotional control are not the hardest parts. The real challenge is understanding that trading is about focusing on the process, and the money is a consequence. - **Focusing on victories makes you fear defeats** [02:06] — If you focus only on victories, you become afraid of defeats. When a loss happens, you panic and may give back months of consistency in a single day. - **Focus on the process means following a plan** [03:06] — To make a living from trading, you must follow a methodology consistently, with commitment. This builds skills and characteristics that improve you as a person. - **Use the market as a teacher in life** [04:04] — Traders experience in days what others take decades to learn. Day trading is like living a lifetime in a minute. Apply the discipline and financial management to your personal life. - **Most people enter trading to escape problems** [05:00] — People think more money will make them happier, and trading seems like an easy solution. But this mindset leads to failure; statistically, most won't make a living from trading. - **Trading as a tool for indirect improvement** [05:43] — Those who truly make a living from trading use it as a tool to indirectly improve their lives. A better life makes you a better trader, not a gambler. - **Many traders are actually gamblers** [06:12] — If you don't follow a methodology and are desperate for results, you are a gambler. Emotions take over, and you lose consistently. It's not a lack of skill but a lack of focus on the process. - **Focus on the process to prosper** [06:55] — The speaker urges viewers to focus on the process. It won't be easy, but if you improve your life and operations, you create a snowball effect of constant evolution, making it almost impossible not to prosper. - **Students achieved financial freedom through teachings** [07:25] — Hundreds of students achieved financial freedom, not necessarily by trading, but by applying the principles of focusing on the process. They became better entrepreneurs and parents. - **Life is more than money** [08:48] — Financial capacity is important in a capitalist world, but it's not the only thing. The skills and qualities gained from trading are valuable beyond money. - **The speaker's personal success** [09:17] — The speaker has not sold mentorship programs for 2-3 years, having invested in crypto. He has enough wealth to do what he wants, prioritizing passion over money. - **Trading is one of the best tools to get rich** [10:15] — Day trading is one of the best tools to become truly prosperous, not just financially but emotionally. It teaches you to manage emotions and understand life like a graph. - **Life is like a graph** [11:07] — Analyze the past, focus on the present, and predict the future. Spend at least 70% of energy on the present to avoid anxiety and depression. - **Trading is a tool for indirect prosperity** [11:50] — It's highly unlikely to get results directly, but indirectly, trading can make you a prosperous person. The speaker shares his own experience of losing $0 last month but being $20k up this month. - **Skills are more valuable than money** [12:31] — Money can disappear, but the skills acquired from focusing on the process make you capable of starting any business and coping with loss better than others. - **You are looking at trading the wrong way** [13:15] — If you only think about money, you'll never focus on the process, and you'll never get results. The speaker encourages viewers to share the video with friends who need to hear this. ### Conclusion The speaker concludes that day trading is a powerful tool for personal and financial growth, but only if you focus on the process rather than the money. By improving yourself, you can achieve prosperity both in trading and in life. ## Transcript people who watch this video until the end will unfortunately become part of the statistics. It doesn't matter if you're my student, if you learn from me, if you learn from someone else, if you learn price action, SMC, options trading, Forex trading, crypto trading, or B3 trading—it doesn't matter. Day trading is one of the ways to make money, and it 's one of the most difficult to choose online. And I'm not saying this to you out of any concern, because most people really won't make a living from trading, because their mistake is thinking that the results will change. Oh, it's because I operate, oh, it's because of this, oh, it's because of that. As long as you're focused on the money, you won't get results regardless of which technique you use or which market you operate in. In all these years of experience I've had in the market, which is more than 10 years, thousands of people have learned from me. Of those thousands of people, I can say that a few dozen made a living from trading. Ah, so you're saying my knowledge isn't valid? So you're saying that what I taught doesn't work? Of course not, because if it didn't work, I wouldn't continue making a profit. The people I taught, even if there were only a few dozen who made a living from trading, and effectively still do today, they wouldn't still be making a living from trading today. And that's the end of it. So, if some people are able to do it, it's because it is possible. The people are able to do it, it's because it is possible. The problem is that it's very difficult not to analyze the chart, not to manage your money, not to have a your money, not to have a certain emotional control when making your entries. That's not the hardest thing. What's difficult to hardest thing. What's difficult to understand is that trading is about focusing on the understand is that trading is about focusing on the process, and the result, the money, is a consequence. If you focus only on the money, only on the result, do you know what will happen? You'll never make a living from trading. If you focus only on your victories, you'll become afraid of your defeats. And if you're afraid of your defeats, it means that when they happen, you'll be afraid of something and it happens, you're very afraid of you'll panic, you'll jump, you'll throw yourself out the window, right? So, when you trade and you take a loss, when you stop out, when you lose and you handle that loss poorly, that's when you'll end up giving back the results of 3 or 4 months of consistency. This is the moment when you're going to throw away everything you're doing, everything you've been building. It's pointless to get it right for four months if you end up freaking out in a single day for four months if you end up freaking out in a single day . And you only freak out if . And you only freak out if you treat money as an end in itself. I know it 's hard to get this into your head, but to make a living from trading, you need to focus on the process. And what would focusing on the process mean? It's about understanding that you must follow a methodology, regardless of who you're studying, who your mentor is, what methodology you're going to use, or what need to create a plan. You have to follow this plan consistently, with commitment. In this way, you will acquire skills and characteristics that will make you a better person, a better employee, a better entrepreneur, a better father , a better mother, a better husband, a better , a better mother, a better husband, a better wife. And if you improve in your life, even little by little, I say that as time goes by, you will worry less and less about the money from the operations and will be able to focus more and more on the process. And then the results will appear much more naturally than if you become obsessed with wanting to live off trading, live off money. Calm. Use the market as your teacher in life. Those who are traders have the experience that some people take 20, 30, 40 years to go through, the gains and losses, emotions that you go through in days, that you go through in weeks. I often say that being a day trader is like living a lifetime in a minute, because anything can happen. And if you use that consistency to improve your life, the financial management skills you need to acquire to manage your capital in operations, apply that to your personal life, to your financial life, you will improve your life, you will very likely improve your relationships, likely improve your relationships, you will improve your life to improve your operations. People are feeling like they're having a bad time, so they find a tool, a way to try to earn more money, because they think having more money will make them happier, financial market, they don't need to talk to anyone, you're at home trading , relaxed and calm, right? And then you imagine that's the solution to your problems. Most people won't make a living from trading. It is statistically proven. Point. If you manage to become a minority, great, then you'll start making money. It will probably improve your life. This doesn't mean it's the formula for success or the formula for happiness. But if you entered the market already wanting to improve your life, focusing on money, focusing on results, the probability of you making a living from trading is practically zero. Because people who truly make a living from trading use it as a tool to indirectly improve their lives. And a better life makes you a better life makes you a better operator, a better trader, who will operate according to management, according to operations, who will truly be a trader and not a gambler. Perhaps you think you're a trader today, but you 're still a gambler. You don't know what you're doing, you don't follow a methodology, you're desperate for results, for a win or a loss, for victory, for defeat, for a take profit, for a stop loss. And then you let your emotions get the better of you and you always end up losing. It 's not a lack of skill, it's not a lack of management. Perhaps for complete beginners this is one of the problems, but you can have the best technique in the world, the best management in the world. If you can't focus on the process, it's impossible to make a living from trading. you this right now from the bottom of my heart. If you want to make a living from your trading, focus on the process. It won't be easy, most people won't succeed, but it's possible. If you improve your life and consequently improve your operations, turning that into a snowball effect operations, turning that into a snowball effect of constant evolution, it's practically impossible for you not to prosper, whether in the market or outside of it. I have hundreds of students who have achieved financial freedom through my teachings, and they aren't students who just trade anymore, they're students who invest in crypto. Beauty? But the financial freedom they acquired isn't directly related to the market, but thanks to me always talking about focusing on the process and teaching trading the right way, because if you trade the wrong way, you won't make money trading and you'll become a in a year you'll be saying that trading is impossible and everyone is a crook. Now, if you learn the right way, if you able to make a living from trading, but you will have a prosperous life, because it's impossible for someone who experiences the process within the financial market not to become a better person, not to become a better entrepreneur. It's impossible. So, these hundreds of people I know, who I've messaged, met in person, and spoken to, are people who achieved financial freedom thanks to market teachings. They don't even trade anymore, but market teachings. They don't even trade anymore, but everything they learned was 100% useful in making them the people they are today, the entrepreneurs they are today, the parents they are today, okay? Life isn't just about having money; it's about a range of characteristics, a range of qualities. characteristics, a range of qualities. And its financial capacity, its, uh, military power, let's say, in financial terms, is one of the things, capitalist world, not that I think that's bad, but it's the world of capital, that is, capital matters a lot, but it's not the only thing that matters, okay? So, understand that I have more students who have prospered outside the job market anyone talking about it. Why? Because most people want to continue selling a lot, etc. And he's worried about whether he'll sell less, he's worried about whether he'll stop selling, whether he'll, in short, have fewer students. I'm not worried about that, because I haven't sold mentorship programs the way I used to for about 2 or 3 years now. I put practically all my money into crypto and the crypto market exploded. Okay, so now I've got smoked, right? Because it fell by almost 50%. But I've acquired enough wealth that I don't need to do anything else at all. I do what I want, if I want, and for most of the decisions I make, my priority isn't the financial aspect, but rather I like to do what heart. And this video I'm making is n't benefiting me in any way. He's showing bucket of cold water, but I don't see a problem in saying this, because I really want to help you. And I hope you understand everything I said in this information and compiled many things, and it may have been confusing at times , but understand that the financial market, trading, especially day trading, is one of the best tools for you to truly get rich . And I'm not talking about you living off the profits from your operations. I 'm not just talking about you being a guy with a lot of money, a person with a lot of money, a woman with a lot of money. I'm talking about you becoming truly prosperous at your core. Being emotionally prosperous means knowing how to manage your emotions, understanding that our life is exactly like a graph, analyzing the past, understanding the present to try to predict the future. So what is your life like? You can look back a little to see your past mistakes and successes, but you have to be here now, focused on the present, on the process. And the result is the future. If you spend too much time thinking about the future, you become anxious. You spend too much time thinking about the past, and you become depressed. You need to dedicate at least 70% of your energy to the present, obviously taking into account where you want to go and where you came from, what you've learned from your past, what to do, and what not to do. That's what a graph is, that's what analysis is, and that's how life is. So you understand how similar it is? So, to recap, Day Trading is one of the best, if not the best, tools for you to become a prosperous person, indirectly. It's highly unlikely you'll get results directly, because it's really difficult. Even I, who have more than 10 years of experience in the market, last month, for example, while trading live in one of the markets I operate in, the options market, lost $0.00. I'm already $20,000 in profit this month, but it's possible to lose it. And there are people who, at some point, in a moment of difficulty, even if they've been living off trading for years, they might do something stupid that will throw everything away. Thank God it did n't happen to me, but it could happen someday. Money can disappear, it can vanish, I can lose everything, but the skills I've acquired thanks to all this time focusing on the process make me the kind of person who can start any business; I anything, I know I'll succeed . A person who has a much greater capacity to cope with loss than others. A person who is able to better than most others. And it's not because I'm special, it's because I've lived hundreds of years longer than a normal person would live because of day trading. It's OK? So you're not in the wrong place, you're just looking at trading the wrong way. If you're only thinking about the money, you'll never be able to focus on the process. And if you never focus on the process, you'll never get results. I hope this information has been clear to you . Leave a comment if you've watched this far. Leave a like and, if possible, share it with a friend who is also trying to make a living from trading, or who has tried and perhaps become hear these words to understand that, in fact, just the fact that they went through trading makes them a person with far greater capabilities than most other people. If we 're in a battle, if we're in a World Cup, our team of traders, regardless of whether they're injured or not, whether they win, lose, have already lost, or have already gone broke, it doesn't matter. People who have worked in the financial market have skills that their competitors don't have. M.