Fully agree with this even though I'm not a full time trader. But the same is true with investing. Instant reality check. If you're profitable, you survive. If you lose money (long-term), you don't have anything to do in this business. In many ways it is the most honest form of work. Compare it with all the BS jobs where you just push papers back and forth and not creating much value at all (trust me I know, because I used to be this paper pusher in my corp job back in the day).(Route 2 FI)