I Tried Stock Trading to Get Rich Quickly. Here Is What Actually Happened.
I opened my first trading account at twenty-four. I lost money within the first three weeks. Not a lot of money. But enough to sting. Enough to make me sit with that particular feeling of having done something that seemed smart and watching it not be smart at all. I had done what most people do when they get interested in the stock market. I watched a few YouTube videos. I read some posts on trading forums. I opened a Zerodha account because everyone seemed to be using it. And then I started buying and selling stocks based on what felt like logic—tips I had read, patterns I thought I could see, and gut feelings dressed up as analysis. I work in a bank. I understand financial products better than most people around me. And I still got it badly wrong. Not because I was careless. I didn’t know the difference between trading and investing – and nobody around me made that distinction clear. This is the article I wish had existed when I opened that first account. The honest versi...