Introduction You have $10,000 to invest today. You want to know when that money will turn into $20,000 so you can put a down payment on a house or buy a new car. Usually, figuring this out requires a financial calculator or a complicated spreadsheet filled with logarithmic functions. But there is a mental shortcut…

The dream is vivid: waking up without an alarm, checking the markets for an hour, and spending the rest of the day exactly how you please. But the gap between the “Instagram Trader” lifestyle and reality is massive. Achieving financial independence through trading is not a sprint; it is a marathon that eats “get-rich-quick” schemes…