Why I Started Trading

Let me be honest — this is not a motivational or inspiring article, nor a demoralising one. This is just raw experience over the years.

Before I tell you why I started trading, let me tell you how I ended up choosing it.

After I finished college, me and my friend chose to learn Android development instead of going to university. We chose a private tech company, learned the basics, and started making our own small apps. This was between 2021 and 2023 — the time BTC had completed its 2021 cycle and almost reached $70,000, and the new bearish move had started from there. Since BTC had reached that kind of price, other small cryptos had also skyrocketed — even meme coins like Shiba Inu. Obviously this was peak price back in 2021-22. On the internet we almost everyday heard news about someone making insane amounts from only $100, and so on.

My friend had, I guess, $50 that he invested in Shiba Inu. By the time BTC crossed $60,000, my friend told me that money had turned into $200 or something. To be honest with you, $200 back in those days — even now — is quite an amount for both of us. But he lost all of that after starting futures. There are some funny stories — real ones — about our crypto futures trading days, but that would be a story for another day.

I didn't have money to invest so I stayed focused on Android development. Me and my friend eventually built a dating app — something bigger than anything we had made before — and it actually worked. Over 1,000 downloads, real investment, ads running. I had already cleared our yard for my Ferrari. Then a policy violation got the app removed from the Play Store, and just like that, it was gone.

Beside the policy issues there were some other problems, but the ones I want to talk about are psychological. Me and my friend had not gone to university, so there was a fear in us — what if this didn't work out? We didn't even have a degree that could support a low-level job. And then there was this other fear — a disgusting one — the fear that everyone else is moving up and we are the only ones stuck in one place.

The last problem, which also tested me quite a lot in trading, is greed. Back in those days I had a hunger — I wanted to be the richest person in my family, my area, my country.

Although I started this blog to share my experience, I might give you some advice — what more could it hurt? Especially for the ones who are in their early 20s: don't let fear and greed make you enjoy life less. Try new things — not because you are going to be left behind, but because learning new things is fun. Enough with advice that I learned the hard way.

So the app was removed. But before that, my brothers — who are one of the main reasons I was able to stick to trading for this long, and I will always be grateful for them — sent me money. Not to start trading, but just so I had something to spend. This was a time when crypto was trending, and I had some investment now, so I started buying cryptos. With a little research I learned about support and resistance zones, some candlestick patterns, and some chart patterns. But one thing I didn't research was that BTC's bull cycle was over — it had started moving down. And when you are in a clearly bearish market, supports start breaking, even big strong ones.

Then came the Terra-LUNA crash. We didn't know much about futures at that time. When the price got to $1, my friend, who had more knowledge, found a very strong support at $1. I looked at it and it seemed like a good one — we were new, so to us it was convincing. We didn't research why it was crashing down like that. We didn't bother ourselves because we had also watched a YouTube video saying Luna was going back up to its original price — which I think was around $115.

I bought in with $30 at $1. Then me and my friend went for a walk, discussing our future plans and the things we could buy if the price got to $115. When we got back I checked the market — Luna had jumped from $1 to $7, but its current price was $5. I was in good profit, so was my friend. This was good enough for us back in those days, but we thought it was going to move even higher and eventually reach $115. So we didn't sell.

As always, I started cleaning our yard for my Ferrari.

The next day the price fell below $0.00-something and never came back up.

If you thought I made money — you guessed wrong. I was hurt. It was the first real loss of my trading journey. But that was also the moment I realized there was a real chance to make money in the markets — we just needed to learn more. That is the day the new adventure began.

That was 3 to 5 years ago. I am still here. I am not going to tell you I have made millions — I am still struggling. But I have years of real experience behind me, a strategy I have been developing and testing, and a win rate that is finally starting to tell me something. I have made every mistake you can think of, and some you probably have not thought of yet.

This blog is where I share all of it. The raw experience, the data, the losses, the lessons — no sugar coating, no fluffing. If you are somewhere at the beginning of this journey, or stuck somewhere in the middle like I was, I hope something here saves you some time and some money.

Bye for now — take care.