Should I trade stocks as a side income?

What this question usually is

• It usually is not about the market. It is about wanting a second door that does not depend on a boss.
• It often arrives in a hot month, which is exactly when the last people who joined are still underwater.
• It is usually answered honestly only after one year, when you know whether you are patient or just hopeful.

What tends to help

• Write down, in advance, what you would do if it dropped 30%. If the answer is "panic", you are not ready.
• Only ever use money whose loss would not change your life. That is the entire rule.
• Track your decisions, not your profits. Decisions you can improve; profits are weather.
• Give it a year of small size before you decide anything at all.

What the reading adds

周易 has been read for three thousand years — not to predict, but to give a moment a form you can look at. Put the question in, and the reading is used the way a farmer reads weather — 豫 (preparation) instead of prediction. It reads your timing and your patience, not the ticker.

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