How did I trade decades ago?
I traded based on prediction.
I had a full time job. Trading was my part time job but I had all the intention to go full time.
Obviously I couldn't sit in front of the computer 24 x 7.
So during night time, I'd made prediction, enter order then hope it would turn up good. Obviously it wouldn't work!
You can't earn money based on prediction.
You have to glue your bum to the chair, your eyes to the computer screen 24 X 7
in order to earn tons of $$$$.
Or you could have gone long a decade ago and made a boatload.