This page is not written to impress anyone. It is written to document what really happens when a normal person enters the share market with dreams and limited understanding.
I entered the share market like most beginners do — with excitement, curiosity, and hope. At the beginning, everything looked simple. Charts were moving, profits were possible, and YouTube made trading look easy.
Small initial profits created confidence. That confidence slowly turned into overconfidence. I believed I had started understanding the market.
I increased trade frequency, spent more time watching charts, and started believing that trading daily was the only way to grow. I didn’t realize that I was entering a cycle that most retail traders never escape.
Losses did not come suddenly. They came quietly — one bad trade, one emotional decision, one attempt to recover quickly.
Intraday trading became more aggressive. Quantity increased after losses. Stop-losses were ignored with the hope that the market would reverse.
I started measuring success not by discipline, but by how much money I could recover in the next trade. That mindset slowly destroyed both capital and confidence.
Options trading looked attractive because it required less capital. Premiums were cheap, returns looked big, and recovery felt possible.
What I didn’t understand properly was time decay, strike selection, and probability. Even when my market view was correct, trades still ended in loss.
Options did not just take money. They took peace of mind. Screens were watched continuously, emotions stayed high, and sleep quality went down.
The biggest damage was not financial. It was emotional.
There were days of frustration, self-doubt, and silence. Profits brought temporary happiness. Losses brought stress, anger, and isolation.
Slowly, I realized that the market does not need to defeat traders. Traders defeat themselves through emotions.
After 3–4 years, the total loss was around ₹15–20 lakh. That money was the cost of ignorance, impatience, and learning.
I understood that survival matters more than profits. Discipline matters more than strategies. And staying out of the market is also a valid decision.
This website is created to document these lessons honestly, so that someone else may avoid repeating the same mistakes.