Honestly, trading takes a lot of risk. Taking risk is what got me to where I am today. Sometimes I feel like I make a lot of mistakes, but when I see the opportunity, I go for it. Last month, I was planning on not trading. I saw AMC & GME go off and I had almost no money in my trading accounts. I was planning to not trade much and close on a house end of month. I wired in $270k to my account with money I was going to use to buy the house. I took it to $650k the next day then I blew it all the way back to $30k by end of week. 3 days. Luckily I made money on my other accounts and only finished the month down $15k, but dang sometimes you just feel so dumb.