Someone asked me last week:

"Atif, what do you wish someone told you when you were first starting out in trading"

At first, i didn’t know how to answer…

Because there isn’t one secret pattern or magic indicator.

Obviously, Liquidity, BSE, you've heard it all

But lets look at trading from business stand point

You are an entrepreneur

The real difference.

Here it is, 

Successful traders study successful entrepreneurs.

They don't just learn what to do. 

They learn how to think.

Most traders are obsessed with finding the perfect entry pattern.

I promise you the profitable ones are obsessed with understanding how Ray Dalio approaches risk, how Bezos scales systems, how Musk handles failure.

Big difference.

If you feel the same obsession with understanding how winners think? 

Your success is written. Just wait for the universe to catch up.

In the meantime…

The real key to success is having a genuine interest in how successful entrepreneurs operate and see the world. .

The brain of a psychologist, 

the game of a hedge fund manager, 

the mentality of Bezos, and the greed of Musk.

Everything aligns if you have knowledge + drive.

If you have drive alone, it'll get you far.

But simply having drive alone is like riding an untamed horse.

Drive with knowledge is like a 0-60 in a M3.

Study those who came before you. 

Biographies of successful entrepreneurs are a cheat code.

When you study a biography of a great entrepreneur, you've installed the years of their experience in you.

You create a level of competence that most simply lack

You see what obstacles they've conquered, how they did it, the trial and errors.

You can now look at trading through a bird's eye view, as a chess game. 

Not a first person shooter.

And that all comes from knowing.

The game of this life is simply going from obstacle → overcome.

And when you read about how Jobs built Apple or how Dalio built Bridgewater, you are learning how the ones who came before you overcame certain obstacles.

So now… 

when you encounter that same obstacle in your trading business, 

you don't feel doubt. 

You just overcome... because it's "happened" to you mentally.

The more you learn, the more years of experience you're adding.

The more lenses you can look at business through.

You learn the way Soros thinks. 

You learn the way Buffett thinks.

You learn the way successful prop traders think…

And you can combine all their worldviews into one. 

You become an ultimate store of knowledge.

Because you don't have just one lens that you look at your trading business through…

Business is all just perspective.

So it makes sense to gather as many perspectives as possible.

Tech titans, hedge fund legends, retail empires, trading operations.

It's all a game of perspective.

Try different lenses, and see what fits your style.

Hint: It's all of them combined.

The amateur trader sees a losing streak and panics.

The entrepreneur sees a losing streak and thinks "data collection phase."

The amateur trader sees drawdown and questions everything.

The business owner sees drawdown and thinks "part of scaling."

Same situation. 

Different perspectives. 

Different outcomes.

A good amount of traders are stuck in first-person shooter mode.

They're reacting to every loss, every drawdown, every setback.

They're playing the game from inside the chaos.

Successful entrepreneurs? 

Are playing chess.

They see the bigger picture. 

They understand the game within the game.

They know that what looks like failure to amateurs is actually feedback to professionals.

When you see this and apply it, 

you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start being the architect of your success.

The blueprint for you is here, optional not required.

But if this way of thinking resonates with you,

Congrats, 

You’re already ahead of most traders.

Now is the best time to unlock the full potential of that perspective. 

Have fun with it 

Talk soon, 

Atif