No shortcuts exist; ten thousand hours of reps required to master trading in all markets.

If it is durable, you can long every dip in a bull run for a year straight and make a bunch of money and you might think, hey, I'm profitable and it only took me three months, I just long everything. The moment that bear market comes, you realize you don't know how to short, you don't know how to protect for downside or trade in a downtrend, this part takes time. There are no shortcuts, you have to put the reps in. You've gotta get in there and take shots. It's the only way that you're gonna improve and you're gonna be journaling everything that you're doing. It's that 10,000 hours quote that you see everywhere from Malcolm Gladwell, that is what you're doing here. You're getting the reps in, this is the stuff that no one can teach you, you can't shortcut. It's that journey that you have to take by yourself and it's the one where most people give up.