Quote from HATEtheRisk:
You can only loose your hard earned money if you are an IDIOT and only have shit in your brain.
The more money you have to more you have to SAVE on the savings account or on the time money interest account or hide it at home, but dont use SAVED MONEY for trading anymore, thats why it is called SAVED MONEY.
How much do you need to make a minimum lifestyle good life,
rent a flat and have 1k - 2k$/â¬/GBP/CHF per month for the next 70 years.... JUST about one million, thats all you need to save from your business and only touch it for living, what your rule is to spend maximum a month.
So you cant loose your wealth if you do it right.
If you have a lot of money and you loose it, thats exatly what you deserve at this point, maybe you learn then, what is life risk money existence managment.....
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You can LOSE anything. Maybe if you are smart you wont lose it all in trading, but what if the dollar collapses...what are you going to do with that saved toilet paper then? You could put it in gold, but someone could always steal it from you. You can reduce risk and put the odds in your favor, but you can still lose ANYTHING. Just ask those savers the wiemar republic...or zimbabwe, or argentina. You can also get held up for ransom and the kidnappers demand all your money for your life. Anyone can lose anything.
But lets look at your situation you said...you save a million dollars and then you blow your trading account. Now what? You never going to trade again? Of course you will. Even if you dont, if you are not investing anymore, inflation is just eatting your money away. Do you think 1 million dollars will be worth anything in 30 years? Do you think you can live off $3k /euros/CHF or whatever per month forever? in 1970 if you retired with $500 per month income, you were doing pretty good. If you try to live off $500 today (or even $500 20 years ago) you are doing pretty bad. if you life off $4k today you are doing good. In 20 years, I'm guessing $4k will barely get you a small studio apartment. You have to actively invest your money to make it grow with inflation or you will end up handing out carts at walmart one day.