The truth is that it is very difficult to beat the market,ask buffet.
many people will make money during bull markets and start over estimating their intelligence.

When one overestimates their intelligence especially if they enter the market and make some wins then they are preparing for a disaster.

Pray that you initially make losses so that you learn and your heart is strengthened then you will be in good position to make decisions and take positions. My advise

Success is a bad teacher. Very true with stocks

quick money made playing markets during bull period is often lost to the same markets during bears.

look at folks here who were very loud as they made super normal profits.Eventually they often make errors that cost them gains and capital.I need not give examples,they are well known.

The same is true with debt.It makes your spouse and friends think that you are a genius,till you make a miscalculation and you get burnt,badly.

*no offence*

You are absolutely correct. The speculators in the forum have gone quiet. During a bull run, you can even start thinking you are a genius, like you cant lose and that you are almost always right.

Learning to live with a losing position of a company that one still believes in is one of the greatest assets a stock investor can have. Ignoring the market and the noise..

On that note been adding TPS . Ill soon double what i had before the fallout from above 35