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First learn. Read, observe, write — and find out who you are.

The market decides who is fit for it, not the other way round. So test yourself before you test your savings. Six months of writing down what you thought, and what actually happened, will tell you more about your chances than any course.

For the first six months, no money at all. You read, you write, you commit a view. You are not collecting profits — you are collecting evidence about one person. How often you were right. How often you were sure and wrong. What kind of market you keep misreading.

After that, if you choose to, with real money and a small amount of it. Because you are about to discover that your analysis and your behaviour are two different people. The view you held calmly in a notebook is not the view you hold when it is your own money moving. That gap is the real lesson, and no amount of reading gives it to you.

Nobody grades any of this. There is no score to show anyone and nothing to be ashamed of. You can write down what you truly thought or you can flatter yourself — it is your money, and your conscience already knows which one you did.

Then read it back.

If the answer is yes — this suits you — you have found something for life.

If the answer is no, that is not a failure. That is the most expensive lesson in this country, and you just got it for free. The market suits some people and not others, the same as surgery or law or the stage. Go and be excellent at the thing that does suit you.

Nobody else will tell you that, because everybody else is selling you the market.