Quote from pattern39:
Envy not those few who make it. They have sacrificed their soul (sold their soul to the Devil) and have nothing of value left to themselves other than some digital number in some bank's database.
And b/c of the Law of Cause and Effect (which works just like gravity --- it works!), even these will go bankrupt just like Jesse Livermore, Nicolas Darvas, and countless other "millioniare" traders.
So, in the end, the few who make it will have lost everything (their soul and superfluous fortune altogether). Run fast away from trading while you still have some of your soul left.
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?" (The Bible)
Darvas didn't go bankrupt, but he did over-concentrate and the 1957 bull and out of sight out of mind offered a little assistance.
After so many years, I get tired of the Paul Bunyon mythology about Livermore. Bi-polar and 1934 Securites legislation eliminated any edge he had left. 1906 Union Pacific was a fluke Bethlehem Steel in 1915 was inside info.
