If you have five hundred thousand in savings, you are a wealthy person.

To be honest, if you have five hundred thousand in savings, you are a wealthy person.
To be honest, at this point in time, if you can calm down and leave five hundred thousand in your account without chasing after, meddling with, or dealing with all sorts of messy things, you are among the few.
It's not because of the more than five hundred thousand, but because you resisted the urge to "have to do something."
Have you noticed that many people, even if they only have over a hundred thousand, are eager to go all in? Whether it's a new hotspot, new themes, AI, gold, low buying and high selling... they all want to take a shot at it, and no one wants to earn money slowly. If there’s some idle money in their accounts, they feel restless and uneasy.
But some people are different; having experienced great ups and downs, they know that some money is made by "lying down" rather than working hard to earn it. You also know that the market doesn't present opportunities every day, and most of the time, the best action is to do nothing.
This five hundred thousand is not just a number; it represents your past endurance, loss-cutting, withdrawal, holding cash, and perseverance. It's the result of enduring one trade after another, losing back, and then standing firm again. Others only see the balance in your account, not knowing how many times your mental account has multiplied and reset to zero.
You begin to understand that as you progress in trading, it's not about how much money you can make, but whether you can keep your money. If you can let your money "sit idle" and resist the illusion of "having to make a move," you've already surpassed 90% of traders.
Those who can hold onto cash are all experts.