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Lost money trading before I realized that I'm actually an investor

I did day trading for about a year. While i had green days, I came to the realization that I was bad at it. The slow days made me impatient. And the fast ones. Well, they got me emotional.

it took me some time, but i notice the every time I made money from trading, It was from the ones I held on to for weeks, not minutes.

Turns out I didn't have a day trader's brain. I had a "buy something nice and forget all about it" brain.

This led me to start placing trades on things I believed in long-term, and everything fell into place.

What I learned was that not everyone was built for fast trading. Just find out what works for you and stick to it.