when can you consider yourself a professional trader and not a beginner for you the biggest thing in my opinion is fundamentals it's understanding what impacts the thing that you are trading if you're just trading technicals which is what most traders do you're just looking at the charts but if you never learn what's actually making a move you're not actually learning anything if you weren't technicals month one
but you've been trading technicals for five years you've been repeating month one for five years
you haven't done anything new you haven't understood how the russia ukraine war impacted the markets whether it's oil gold us equities and the russian ruble like whatever it is you haven't understood how the israeli war impacted the u s markets because you're not paying attention to it you just see oh my god goldwyn bullets you didn't learn what impacted it when it happens again you can't replicate the move