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As a small bitcoin trader, I feel intimidated rather than inspired when watch certain YouTube or Social Media titles or content like "Day in the Life of a Young Millionaire Trader in Dubai" or "Day In The Life of a 23 Year Old Making $10,000 a Day", or "A Day In The Life of a Crypto Trader" etc. They feature young millionaire traders in beautiful places or traders who make thousands of dollars and to be honest, it creates a feeling of inadequacy or distress in me because I am yet to reached those levels of success yet. However, I have begun to avoid them and what I do is to focus on my own trading goals and aspirations. As a small bitcoin trader, have you ever felt intimidated, distressed, inadequate or inspired after watching these types of videos or content?

I can never felt intimidated, although that is me from when I have known about intimidation. I do not feel intimidated, life is not the same for everyone and someday may become mine. I try to focus on my trading and anything stupid thinking like intimidation may result into a failed trading.

I use to say this: if you are a trader, you have to do away with everything that can make your mindset to be of low or poor quality. Focus on yourself and how you can achieve your long term goal in life.

Among all, I am happy, there is nothing better than joy and happiness. The little I gained from trading is enough for me.

You can watch them but I don't.

Life has many meaningful things to do and to enjoy not like watching videos from those guys. They are rich, let them be but most important things they make those videos is to gain more followers.

Not strange to see influencers use their impacts to shill projects that later are scam projects and many people lose money. I watch Youtube videos about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin but only from channels that give me knowledge and educational videos.

To be honest, I have felt that, but it's back to ourselves regarding the capabilities we have and the capital that is indeed not very sufficient. As a result, for me personally, the fate of a person in the world of trading cannot be equated with what we have achieved. Traders with big profits at a young age are in a process of ideal achievement, but should we continue to feel intimidated and feel we are unlucky? Finally, I prefer to build inspiration and make ideal achievements with self-satisfaction versions in the field of trading.

Not really and I'm even interested to know what they do aside from trading. I know that there go the self-made traders just to show off on social media. But for the best traders, you'll see their authenticity in many ways that you can.
I'm not jealous nor intimidated by them but instead, I first ask a question in my mind if they're legit and if they are then I just think of it how can I achieve the same achievement that they've taken? It may not be exactly the same as them but like 1% or just the path that they've taken through the process.

That should be used as motivation, if other people can, then we should also be able to get that success. However, if we feel intimidated by such things, it can be said that we have little or no confidence in ourselves. The question is, how is it possible to achieve success if you do not believe in the potential that exists within yourself? Even if we don't have the ability, then we can learn it. Everything needs a process and nothing happens instantly in this life.
But such viewing must also be comprehensive in my opinion, because many beginners who see successful trader content find this trading easy. Because most of them only show when they are successful, without showing the process they are going through. It's not all like that, but it would be better for content creators like them to educate thoroughly including the risks that will be faced.

I think most of these videos are absolutely fake. There is no point in distressing yourself for these videos because they aren't actually doing any trading they are just boasting upon their generational wealth, or maybe a few lucky trades and acting as if they are trading.  Real trading is hard and actually takes some times before you see good results and much more time before you can be a millionaire. Most of these people have more incomes from selling courses of trading than trading itself. So no need to get dishearten in these things.

I only watch a few of their videos because most of them only talk about their success and only show their profitable trades they will never show you their losses and when you try to copy them or try out the strategy that they do teach you'll only end up realizing losses.
But the ones I do watch teach you how to overcome losses and move on and how to improve your strategy. Truly they do motivate us to learn more and also seek and grab any opportunities presented to us.

Same with mine. If you feel intimidated and distressed, then simply stop watching them. After all, we know what’s real trading scenario is, if you think those videos are exaggerating, then let it be as they are only after with their followers because that’s where they can make and gain an income. YouTube videos could sometimes be true or not, it depends on how an individual sees it. But since they’re crypto influencers and would want to gain a lot of followers, they will do everything to attract a lot of viewers even if it’s crossing the line already.

The last and the worst thing i will ever do to myself is to feel inadequate or intimidated by anyone. Though it will be very hard to overcome that feeling, truth be told, the feelings will find its way to your heart but you shouldn't allow it go get to you. I have never felt intimidated on how successful another trader is. Everyone is successful according to your investment not only your investment but how you strategize and how determined you are about your business and also how you manage your business.
I have no reason to feel inadequate or intimidated, i stay focused on my business and i don't let nothing get inbetween.

I guess it’s human nature to feel a bit of envy if we see young traders earning a lot already and making their dreams in life come to reality. But if you based yourself from the achievement of others, you will never grow and you might only continue to feel the pressure which is not helpful at all if you want to be a good trader and become highly profitable and skilled in it. Besides, traders have their own time when to make it big in trading, depending on how does a trader work hard and become the best version of himself. So I prefer to work on my own and follow my own strategies which for me are working well and are still reliable when trading.

Despite the fact that I don't want to sound racist, the extravagant display or spending of wealth is a peculiar feature of some races. You rarely see Germans, Chinese, and Jews showing off their wealth, this is more common among the young men though. Bitcoin made some people rich overnight, while others mishandled it until they lost everything owing to their lavish lifestyles. Make sure you don't learn the wrong things from those guys; learn how to build wealth, plan your finances for the long term, and keep your standard of living low.

Neither intimidated nor inspired is what I’m feeling because I don’t compared my life achievement with others. Comparing to them or inspiring them will make my future limited on what others did and not on what I really want. We have different path and unique life achievements. It’s just a waste of time watching streams that boasting wealth because we don’t get anything from while they are getting money from our views.

Honestly, it gives me more inspiration to thrive more because if they can be successful with trading, then the more I am more capable to. Regardless if those stories are fabricated or not, I do not mind as long as I will keep working on my own goal so I can be successful later on. After all, our success will only determine as to how tough and dedicated we are as traders by not letting some pressures affect our positive mindset.

It gives me more motivation and encouragement knowing that I can be something like that in the future. But when you experience what real trading is all about, you will realize that trading is never easy, it has its own highs and lows, and if your are weak and dull, you will never succeed in trading. So I’ve come to realized that youtube videos are not all true, some are just done because they are forced to do so since they are making a good income from it.

I have not been intimidated seeing stories like this because for sure, these are done for a set goal. And to think that some are making it exaggerated, so I don’t have to be distressed or become annoyed in it. Because as much as I know trading, it’s never easy to earn profits, you should need the skills and knowledge first so you can expect profits in trading. And you have to be patient as well, as those who never have much patience in trading have end up quitting and lose their funds.

Its just jealousy and being that envy on what they had become and this is why we do feel about being intimidated or distressed rather than on having that inspired kind of perception.Just accept that there are people who are cherishing out their lifes or on what they had reached because they did really took the risks on engaging with trading whether those are not real or a real one then
we dont really have something to do.Make these things to be an inspiration to make yourself more better but of course dont rush things up because things doesnt
really work on this way.

Most of them are cons, scammers, shills looking for views from YouTube and probably get paid to shill more shitcoins to newbies... There is no way I can feel inspired by such kinds of people. The good thing is that it's so easy to identify such con artists just by looking at the way they present their videos

Most will want you to join using their referral links or join a certain trade coaching class for a fee. If someone is rich as they claim, then why are they looking to earn a few dollars using referral links?

If we focus on their result and achievement, yes, it is realistic if we sometimes feel uncomfortable with it. Because we commonly only can enjoy a small number of profits. But this is a trading world, where people with higher amounts of capital will also commonly will earn much higher profits. Moreover, if they have the professional skill and understanding, big amount, and also completed advanced tools and equipment. This will lead them to have a bigger chance to earn profits. But, should we be intimidated? Be calm and patient mate. Everyone has their era to be great in trading. You can take this as one of the reasons why you must be more serious in trading, to be smarter and better at trading. So, who knows that we someday can be one of them? haha

I choose not to watch those traders' content that shows their big profits since even if they did those big trading profits with pure trading skills, nothing gonna change the fact that they are just likely for a purpose of gaining viewers and adding subscribers.

I am more likely to watch traders' content related to educational purposes since even if there's a purpose of gaining viewers, it's good to watch content that can feed our minds and not just watch how much money these traders are making for trading.

We have different views though regarding that matter but I will stand to my own.

I did not know those kind of videos existed, which should show how much I care about them, however as an example if someone else has a lot more bitcoin than I do, I only think that this is good for them and then I immediately move on.

The moment you begin to compare yourself to someone else then you will always come up short, as there will always be someone with more money, and even if somehow you made it to the very top and no one else had more money than you there could always be some things you could desire you had from other people, and since this does not really help us in our development as traders or investors I do not see the need to use our limited time and energy on it.

Not inspired, I am sure of that. Somehow jealous.  ;D
I don't really like watching these things as I don't want to be a greedy person but I did bump into them sometimes due to the recommended feature of the known streaming service. Once you watch Etoro clips, and others related to it, these other streamers will start to pop out.

The same with you, I'd like to make my own strategy when it comes to trading. It doesn't matter if sometimes it goes south as long as I can also be proud of the profits because I did it myself and did not rely on other people's techniques. Pride is definitely evil.  ;D But it feels better when you reap the rewards of your own hard work.

Their advice tends to be general because of taking a narrow perspective (usually only based on their own experience), so you shouldn't take all the motivations that are raised. It depends on which starting line you're at and what preferences you have. I mean, there are some of them who start success from scratch with family backing up financially. So it's not a problem for them even though they'll fail many times.

Never believe everything you watch, read, or listen to on the internet. The internet is where people flaunt fake live style and portay who they are not. They do this for the likes, the shares, the follows, the admiration, to promote or sell their content, and to massage their egos while in reality they are struggle or not as successful as they claim to be.

I have watched a lot of these videos and compared it with other real life traders it doesn't add up at all. I do not doubt that there crypto millionaires who are living large, but it is not like those who flaut it claim it is.


If you are coming from a disadvantaged background, it is okay to feel this way. But when you carry our an introspection and take stock of your trading journey you will see that you aren't doing so bad yourself. And this is where you should draw your inspiration and drive from to keep moving.


Yes, I have. And I sometimes watch it on purpose just to fantasize or add to the mental picture I have about how my life would be if I stay consistent.

I agree with you, that they prioritize what they experience. That's actually not wrong because indeed experience is very important for a process until finally they can be successful in trading. But not only that, I very often find that they flaunt their success so that others are tempted by what they experienced. And then they open a class about trading, usually on their private channel (you have to pay if you want to join). In my opinion, this is used as a business field for them to make a profit from members who register. I've entered a group like this, and the content in my opinion is not very useful because the things I get there are basic things that I can learn without having to pay.

The captions from these videos can be exaggerated to make one feel like they are not doing enough. Asides some of these videos being scripted for views, you should not compare your one step with the 1000th step of another person. Some of these traders who are very successful and rich from trading did not just start yesterday, What you see is a product of years of hard work and continuous learning. It can be intimidating, but you should take solace in thinking that you are getting there someday. Watch these videos and create in your mind the idea of what you want for yourself in the future, put in my mind, so you can attract those things to yourself.

You should not avoid them or feel disturbed nor depressed when you watch them. They should give you encouragement instead because you are seeing the reality of the positive side of trading if you get your strategy right. The guys in YouTube that you watch are whale traders trading with a lot of capital so you can expect that their winning should be in large figures, but they also lose hugely but may not show that to you. If you are a small trader and you are having consistent profit no matter how small they are then you know you can get bigger with time. You can feel discouraged if you are not making even little profit as a small trader.

General means not only in trading? But isn't it great? It was like a complete package. Not only that we can be good at trading, we can also be good at our life outside. Motivations are never a bad thing. They are not bad advices but someone says that too much of it and then not applying it can still be useless.

Well, that was true because we are only wasting our time watching and listening to them. Those who got a support from their family are lucky but I know many of us are not like that. Sometimes our family is the one who prevents us from doing what we love but if we truly have a passion for one thing, we must do anything even though we will leave our family behind.

I never felt intimidated because I know exactly what it’s like to be a trader, and definitely it’s not easy but very hard especially for beginner traders. However, once you develop your skill in trading and master the strategies, then it’s really possible that you could earn huge profits through trading and earn millions. There are already successful traders these days and I’m certainly happy of whatever they achieved. The reason why I am also working on my own so I can be something like them, hopefully in the future.

Because the majority of these traders are also YouTubers and content producers working hard to increase their views and content on social media, these videos are either made for viewers or for other viewers. When I first started watching these videos, I used to get discouraged because I felt intimidated by the enormous profits they were making on each trade but later learn that they have been in the space for a decade, that clear out all my doubts about the space. I began striving harder because I wanted to be like them. However, as it turns out, everyone has their own trading style, and the accountant size is enormous. Discipline, effort, and reliability are paramount in this environment. To reach daily trading goals, one must be focused; initially, this may not be simple, but over time, one will get more and more motivated to do so.

I watch them for fun not to compare myself from them. I sometimes get some terminologies I commonly don't hear every day. Of course you will think "how envious of them, how I wish I could do those things too", or "I'm at this age and I'm still a mess compared to them". If those things affect your mental health, then you should look for other videos rather than watching them just to be stressed out. I often times watch Graham on his youtube channel reviewing those with captioned "a daily life of..." for fun not to be discourage or be stressed. As they say this world is unfair, and it is true to some extent, coz not everyone is given the same resources and conditions like what we've watched on the videos. Imagine them starting trading at young age having $500 on their accounts, me when I was young? I'd be lucky to even get $20 a month utilizing all the resources I have and use that amount to start trading. What's more? Before I could invest that money, I still needed to reach a certain amount to avail minimum requirement to open an account in the bank, plus there're still fees and some other requirements that is not that easy to get. As I've said earlier, not everyone starts at the same starting line, for them it is easy to say "save your $5 so you can invest and start trading", but for me? it is almost worth 2 weeks of hard work and grind. One thing I've realized from being poor is that, if you keep on comparing yourself to others who're already successful, you'll eventually find yourself more and more stressed by finding more flaws on yourself and you will start to complain and mentally exhaust yourself disturbing your decision making.

I am not interested in and don't care about content that only contains activity or just showing off like that. I will be motivated when I watch the content of someone or an influencer who presents and provides education as well as insights on how to analyze, disclose strategies that are carried out and live withdraw their profits or all about the useful world of trading.
Because it's better for me to watch content that contains education or knowledge to add insight than to watch content that shows off and shows the agenda of their life or their daily life because there isn't much that we can take to make examples of lessons or add insight.
In my opinion, most of the content that presents the daily life or activities of a successful person is boring and maybe not all of it is true, maybe even just a setting, because their goal is to attract a lot of attention or followers by showing off their lifestyle and success.

I know how hard it is to be a successful trader, so I’m not falling from all of these tricks from crypto influencers. Though these are also possible, but it takes long time experience in trading that may take a lot of years of losing before you can finally say that you are good enough as a successful trader. That’s why I stick on my own strategies and never rely from them, and I am really working on my trades just like how I work for my future.

Never felt intimidated from those videos. Instead I feel motivated, so in the future I can become one of those people like those videos. You may think that you had become one of those because you followed the same strategies like they did, but in the end it's nothing because of how different people manage to clear different situations in trading scenario. Don't feel intimidated by those videos, just learn that not everyone instantly become superior in trading and it needs time to do so.

there are a lot of videos like what the OP meant and I'm sure maybe even in every country there must be someone who makes content like that. In my opinion, content like that should only be enjoyed, there's no need to make ourselves feel discouraged and intimidated like what OP experienced.
because the content creators make video content for the purpose of entertaining and only showing their success, and their goal is to get and attract a large audience from the luxury they display in order to increase their income from YouTube or their social media platform.

yes what you said it is true that when we are jealous of other people's success it will make ourselves feel that we are always lacking and make us not confident. we must remain grateful for our current achievements.
Instead of thinking about other people's stories that are not necessarily the truth, it is better for us to always focus on developing and increasing our trading skills and knowledge so that we can take maximum profits when trading.

I guess there’s no reason for me to feel intimidated about it. Instead, I just try to avoid these types of contents because I know that trading is not working that way. Though you can be a millionaire in trading, but the process is very hard and risky. You could lose thousands at first or even millions, before you will be a profitable trader and live a luxurious life. Trading is certainly hard, that’s why we should learn it the hard way.

I used to see some of these videos but I do not get intimidated by it, what most of them try to do is  fake it, until you make it, because they are in the showbiz business they need to show off and show things that will make people feel they have arrived. The real millionaires that I know in Crypto are always tasty for more and strive to get better not not to show off their wealth. The good thing about Crypto is that it gives everyone equal opportunity to make it, it now depends on  much you want it.

I was happy to see their success and I use to inspire myself to continue building experience and become more knowledgeable. Though we can say that some got lucky in trading however as what I see, and even one of my friends tells me that it was not really all about luck but also about how we analyze the market trend. Those videos OP will serve as an example that there is no right age in trading because you can earn as much as possible if you are really good at trading. But we can never expect that every traders will have the same path, some will lose while some had succeeded.

I believe those videos were posted to motivate upcoming traders, but they do not always serve that purpose because they cause negative emotions in the newbie traders. Seeing such videos definitely gives me a lot of aspiration and a desire to get there quickly rather than learning gradually and becoming a master of my own. This leads to significant anxiety and a lack of focus in my quest to become a better trader, so I'll avoid any YouTube video that shows that because it will be detrimental to my success in becoming a better trader.

Being intimidated could lead to envy in the future, that’s why i honestly avoid it as much as I can. Instead, I just focus on improving my craft and helping myself grow in trading through engaging into different strategies and develop those who have potentials that will help me succeed in the future. However, if these are really happening, then I’m happy for them as much as I am happy with where I am right now.

Does really depend on your personality because there are people who do easily get envied up on the time they are seeing someone whose really that good and able to achieve something and cherish out their profits
and buy everything they do want.Of course who doesnt really like on having the same lifestyle of  these people we are seeing? It is really just that there are people who do get intimidated but later on
they do get angry just because they dont able to reach out that particular state of their life and trying out to compare instead on making yourself that getting inspired with those people on what
they had achieved on this career.Its just really that normal for a human being on having these kind of reactions.

Watching them can be your motivation to do better, don’t feel intimidated or feel bad for yourself because you will have your own time for success. I watch them to learn about their trading strategy, and I don’t focus on their profit since they have huge capital to start with and its normal to make profit out of that capital. Don’t be too emotional, focus on your goal and if you think this distract you, then don’t watch it anymore and just focus on your strategy and goal.

I have definitely felt intimidated and inadequate after watching these types of videos. It can be disheartening to see people achieving such success while I'm still struggling to make ends meet. To cope with this, I try to focus on my own progress and goals. It's important to remember that everyone's journey is different and not to compare myself to others. I also try to stay positive and remember that I am capable of achieving success with hard work and dedication. I also try to reach out to other traders who are in a similar situation for support and advice.

In the trader's world there will always be many smoke sellers, but we must start thinking about all those people who lead a life like this, or who Say they lead a life like this, do you think they want to share it? Well, personally I know a French friend, he is actually Peruvian and has his own free VIP group but for forex trading Signals and apparently it is very real and he wins and makes his followers win, just follow his advice, of course They also Have losses but the gains are Greater than the losses and I think that's what this is about.

I would never tend to join any VIP groups for that huge chunks of subscription fees because if they are really that making huge or profitable, would they really be that mindful on hassling themselves on handling out

people or really have the time to spare on sharing out his trading strategies for some penny amounts or something that he could really be able to earn with ease? There's no sense in doing that if you are really that on an actual situation or condition which you do make money and you would be minding on sharing it up on others.

Basing up on the situation where op stated on which you do find out these videos or post to be that somewhat intimidating then i do believe that it is really been mixed up with
jealousy and envy.  :D

i don't like to watch youtubers because most of them selling you useless courses and tokens.

Any time I watch those kinds of videos, I notice some kind of adrenaline pumping through my veins, and I always get too caught up in my imagination, asking myself when and how I can be like them. I don't really know if those guys are just crypto traders or if they have something else that is earning them money while they are also earning from their trading. Bitcoin is freedom, and indeed, I am just supposed to be living my life the way I want it, spending most of my time with my PC or phone to carry out trading and earning huge amounts every day, but I am not even close to being a professional trader. I still have the dream that one day I will have a good profession in trading because, as it stands now, I don't know much about trading to make a daily profit.

Feeling overwhelmed or not up to snuff when looking at mega-successful traders? Chill! Everyone's got a unique path, and trading victory isn't just about making bank or Twitter fame.

As a small-scale Bitcoin trader, concentrate on your personal objectives and chase 'em daily. While it's useful to learn from the big shots and get inspired, don't forget comparison can be a buzzkill.

Instead of being bogged down by others' achievements, use that energy to fuel your trading game. Set attainable goals, follow your progress, and pat yourself on the back when you score. With commitment, tenacity, and a can-do mindset, your trading dreams will come true!

Do you know what does those statements or titles really mean? They just mean that whoever is publishing those videos is having amazing marketing and SEO team. They are putting perfect titles so that peeps can get attracted to their videos. They will always have money related thumbnail, they will show you big cars, lavish life and whatsoever. However, that’s definitely a marketing strategy so that they can get views from organic traffic, earn huge revenue from the advertising. They are actually earning their millions from this YouTube videos and not from the trading. Lolz. Be aware of such content mate because what you see on the internet is not always true. There are rare channels with true content.

Everything must be focused on the fact that things in trading are never as some Influencers say, for me most of them are All a Fiasco, Most of them make these Setups to make believe that they are Geniuses earning and earning money, that is Something that for me is not It makes Sense,however, you should not get Demoralized by Seeing things like this, because they are in a world of Fantasies, we are in the real world, Wehere we all win, we lose in trading, which is normal, what I Recommend is not to Stop him to the information that Looks so Extraordinary, because it is Known that the good is not much.

It's part of their career as a vlogger but I don't watch those kind of videos where they make long video not really explaining anything useful but just making their time long talking some BS. I would skip it to the best part where I can understand everything they said since I know they were just trying to make you watch a long ass video to monetize it. If it isn't helpful or giving a useful information I usually skip or find a new one where it explain everything in a short time as possible.

OP might be triggered or something due to his anxiety I guess but the best way to deal with it is to not watch them since all they are doing is just a kind of marketing strategy.