Over these many years, I’ve seen only two types of people who can succeed at stock trading:

1. People with 0 financial expertise, but 100/100 people-reading ability. This kind of person doesn’t understand trading at all—they don’t even grasp the basic concepts—but they always manage to find the best stock pickers and the biggest money-makers around them, on the internet—big “bull” traders / top individual investors / true v—and then they copy the assignment with precision, copying it so well that it changes their fate.
Don’t think this has no difficulty, because these truly top big-name individual investors are generally impossible for ordinary people to identify. What everyone likes is the kind who talks big, does short-term trades, and produces one trading target in a day—someone who does technical analysis. The moment they start talking about fundamentals, people swipe past them and don’t recognize fundamental research and the v. But this type of person can immediately spot the real v, and does it without any personal thinking at all. (Some people mess up right here: when a big v buys something, they just have to think about it subjectively themselves. They don’t mindlessly copy the homework, so they can’t hold onto the correct position, and they keep getting hit.)
This kind of person is like Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han. When you say he had no ability, he could gather the most capable group of people around him and borrow their strength to conquer the world. You say he’s impressive—doesn’t he have any particularly outstanding advantages?
2. People with 100/100 financial capability, and who genuinely love finance. Like Jing Shui in 2008—reading dozens of financial reports a day, plus research, communication, tracking industry trends, and macro analysis. Not only do they not feel exhausted, they even draw energy from it. This is a typical high-energy, high-cultivation, high-cognition group of people. These people can truly come to the fore.
Have you seen people who aren’t in either of these two categories, yet still manage to make money?