About the blog

What can I say that hasn't already been said about day trading?

I’ve yet to personally meet a successful day trader, that's the truth.

I've heard a lot of stories, listened to countless lectures, read books, attended courses, but I haven't met anyone that this is his actual job, from which she/he earns a living – that this is what she/he does all day, morning to evening.

** Because contrary to what I thought before I dived in, it is a full-time job and now it's too late to go back and change my mind (it's a good thing, I love my job).

What is my definition of a successful day trader?

First, we are talking about my. personal definition,
In general, when a person explains or describes something, it is her or his interpretation. This thing that she/he explains or describes is presented through his personal point of view and this is the essence of my blog. My blog is my personal interpretation of day trading!

Everyone has their own definition of success and for me, a successful day trader is a trader who is able to make a regular living from trading and operate under a clear trading plan that she/he wrote and defined for her/himself.

And not a trader who makes millions or a trader who trades from the beach. Not a trader who looks at twenty screens in a trading room giving instructions, nor a trader who, in addition to being a trader, also lectures, maintains a YouTube channel, builds and teaches trading courses.

There is nothing wrong with these examples. On the contrary, my most appreciated mentors and teachers are doing all of the above and I wish that in a few years I would have half of the knowledge, experience and skills they have today. These people are great and I am sure that some of them are also phenomenal day traders who know how to trade and make a consistent profit. After all everything I know, I learned and gathered from them.

But my definition of success is only mine.
For me, I want to trade quietly, reach my daily profit target that I set for myself and share my journey through this blog. This sharing comes out as an appreciation for everyone who shared, shares, teaches, accompanies and opened a window for me and for other traders like me to learn the way of becoming successful day traders. Each one of us with her or his own personal definition of success.

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How can I make money in the capital market? What should I invest in? Which stocks are currently recommended?

90% of the people that hear what I do ask me these questions.

They all get the same answers.

I do not know what they should invest in, I can not or do not want to recommend a specific stock. There are many ways to make money in the capital market and there are even more ways to lose it! !,
I can only tell about my way and my way is, day trading combining the principles of mindfulness and the four Buddhist truths

through writing my trading plan, the one that suits me (and only me) while acquiring trading skills by practicing true mental training.

Evolving into becoming a disciplined day trader who comes to terms with the truth - that in a single trade anything can happen as with anything in life.

It is a commitment and it’s a long path to walk.

For me success is not to end my trading day with a profit of tens of thousands of dollars but to end my trading day knowing that I stuck to my trading plan. That I traded according to my own strategies with confidence. Gaining every day what I planned to gain and more importantly, not to lose more than what I allocated per trade as a part of a series of trades in a tested strategy that I am confident in. Such a day as far as I'm concerned is a successful day even if I ended it with a loss that I took under consideration!

As far as I'm concerned, being successful means devoting my mornings to mental training and arriving at the trading day sharp and focused to do my job.

I'm not looking for thrills. I'm looking for a method according to which I'm the one in control and not the four fears that every trader knows:

1. 1. To make a mistake (the fear of being wrong)
2. 2. To lose (the fear of losing)
3. 3. To miss out (the fear of missing out)
4. 4. Leave money on the table (not exhausting the move)

And I don't claim to teach or educate anyone to trade my way.

I'm simply sharing my personal diary, which I write so as not to deviate from the path.
Writing for me is part of the work, part of the preparation I do before the trading day.

This is how I see success:
Live my life, day trade peacefully in private, consistently earn the amount that I set for myself according to my needs, document my path, memorize my mantras, continue to learn, develop and share while remaining grounded.

I see my day trader work as a long term commitment I chose to take up on myself.
I don't play a zero sum game or worse a minus sum game. I have no interest in earning four days and on the fifth day to lose everything I earned in the past days or more.

I know that in order to be consistently successful and not reach a situation where I earn and earn and then one day lose everything (we all know how volatile and surprising this market can be and it takes only once…). I need to limit both my losses and my profits and be honest with myself when I can and when I am not able to trade or act accordingly (a big advantage I have over institutional traders who must trade at all times).
And in the end my real job is not to forget this and act accordingly!

I have already committed to this way and now I share with you my insights, my discoveries as well as the obstacles and the challenges I am experiencing.

What about you?

Are you willing to understand how much time should be invested? Or what it takes tomake a decision whether to embark on this journey or not?

This personal diary of mine will not teach you how to trade stocks for the simple reason that there is no blog in this world from which you can learn stock trading only by reading.

There is no single course that can turn you into successful traders who are able to generate consistent income ממסחר במניות by executing trades with confidence! ! !

Becoming this trader requires going through a long and complex process, gaining deep understanding and evolving beyond.

This blog is one stage before.
Before you sign up for a course that promises to make you a successful trader. (Without defining what is the meaning of a successful trader).
Before you read the book that promises you to be a millionaire and work from anywhere you desire (not really accurate).
Before you open a stock trading account and lose thousands of dollars.

And also for the stage after. After completing the courses, reading the books, opening a trading account and losing thousands of dollars.

For the stage where you think you did everything you were taught but still lost a fortune and you do not understand how it happened.
Whether you are planning to conquer the capital market by storm, or already tried, lost and want to know why, this blog asks you to think and recalculate the path.
This is a blog I would have been happy to read at the beginning of my journey if one actually existed.

From my experience, I can tell you this path is great and the results even moreso.
But it's not easy... because trading is hard and that's why I named my blog that way - tradingishard.com

This blog is a glimpse into my personal diary that tells about my journey of becoming a successful,
disciplined and consistent day trader.

So this blog is me.
Telling you about my way of becoming a consistently successful and disciplined day trader.

And I really hope you enjoy it,

XOXO