Suffering Is the Teacher: Nietzsche on Trading

How failure forged a process built on trends and relative strength.

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

When I first stepped into the markets, I thought I was ready. I had the passion, the time, and the drive to succeed. What I didn’t have was perspective. Every instinct I had was wrong. When stocks were surging, I wanted to short them. When they were collapsing, I thought it was a dip …