Tag: money mindset

“I Make $100 a Day Trading…” — But No One Will Tell Me How


I have a few friends who are into day trading.

Not long-term investing. Not business.

Just buy… sell… and make money — every single day.

According to them, life is simple.

“Bro, I make $50 to $100 daily.”

I smiled.

But inside… my brain started doing math.

👉 $100 × 20 days = $2,000/month
👉 No boss. No office. No pressure
👉 Just a laptop… and money flowing in

At that moment, I genuinely questioned my life choices.

Then came the obvious question

So I asked them:

“How does it work?”

And suddenly…

  • One said: “It’s experience, you won’t get it now.”
  • Another: “You need to understand market psychology.”
  • One more: “You have to feel the market.”

I was like…

👉 Are we talking about trading… or learning martial arts from a master?

The funny part

These same friends:

  • Share profit screenshots
  • Talk with full confidence
  • Say “I rarely lose”
  • Exit as soon as they hit their daily target

But when it comes to explaining the method…

Total silence.

Not even one clear step.

At one point, I honestly wondered:

👉 Do they think I’ll learn it in one day and become their competition?

That’s where my doubt started

If something is:

  • So consistent
  • So predictable
  • So “easy”

Then why:

👉 No one explains it clearly?
👉 No one teaches it properly?
👉 No one scales it to millions quietly?

That’s when a different thought hit me.

What if the story is incomplete?

What if:

  • The $100 profit days are real…
  • But the $300 loss days are never mentioned?

What if:

  • They exit early on good days…
  • But struggle silently on bad ones?

What if:

  • It’s not a fixed system…
  • But a mix of experience, luck, and timing?

The reality I’m starting to see

Day trading might look like:

👉 Small daily wins

But actually be:

👉 Uneven results over time

Some days up.
Some days down.
Some days confusing.

And the bad days?

They don’t make it to the conversation.

Now when someone says:

“I make money daily trading…”

I don’t jump in with excitement.

I pause.

I think.

And yes… I get a little skeptical.

Not because they’re lying.

But because:

👉 They might only be telling the good part of the story.

Salary Won’t Make You Rich? The Truth Is More Interesting Than That


I came across a post recently.

It said:
75% entrepreneurs, 15% investors, 7% athletes, 3% artists, 0% employees.
And the moral?
👉 “Nobody got rich with a salary.”

At first glance, it hits hard.
Especially for people like us… who have seen both sides of life.

But something didn’t feel right.

Is it actually true?

Short answer: No. It’s oversimplified.

Let’s break it down.

If you look at global wealth data (like Forbes Billionaires list):

  • Yes, a majority of billionaires are entrepreneurs
  • Many are investors (Warren Buffett type)
  • Some are athletes and entertainers

But saying 0% employees? That’s simply not true.

👉 People like:

  • Sundar Pichai (CEO, Google)
  • Satya Nadella (CEO, Microsoft)

They started as employees.
Even today, they are technically salaried professionals—yet extremely wealthy.

So what is the real truth?

The difference is not salary vs business.

The real difference is this:

👉 Ownership vs Effort

🔹 Employees trade time for money

You work → you get paid → cycle repeats

🔹 Entrepreneurs build systems

They create something → it works even when they sleep

🔹 Investors grow money

Money starts working instead of them

A small realization from my life

I didn’t go behind a salary.

In fact, I resisted it.

There were phases when my mother and even my wife insisted that I should take up a job—for stability, for predictability.

But I kept saying to myself:
👉 “Once an entrepreneur… always an entrepreneur.”

At the same time, life slowly pushed me towards income stability.

That’s how I ended up building studio apartments and service apartments.

Not just as a business idea…
but as a way to ensure steady income every month.

So while I didn’t choose a salary,
I did choose stability in income.

The real lesson (not the viral one)

The truth is not:

❌ “Employees will never get rich”

The truth is:

✅ “Salary alone rarely creates wealth”

A quote that stayed with me

“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
— Warren Buffett

Final thought

You don’t have to quit your job.

You don’t have to become a startup founder overnight.

But you must ask yourself:

👉 Am I building something beyond my income?

Because wealth is not about how you earn
It is about what you build while you earn.