Comment by narrator

I make enough trading to live off of. Sure, I lost small amounts of money for about 15 years to get good enough at it to do well the last 4 years, but now I spend a lot of time looking at the market because it's basically my job. If I had a real job, I'd spend all my time peeking at the market, and probably make less money, lol.

I'd say it's a great job for generalist news junkies. Also, now with AI you can have it grind through hundreds of pages of stuff. It's like having your own hedge fund research department. Getting over the psychological difficulties to becoming a good trader and unlearning bad conventional thinking takes a while though. It's why good traders are such non-conformists. They have trained themselves to not trust crowds and instead determine the truth themselves in controversial matters and then ride the crowd as it slowly realizes things.