The Ugly Truth

Arigato, dear investor,

Last week, I sat down with two experienced traders, Wei Xiang and Spencer, to understand what it truly takes to become successful traders.

And combined together, they have close to 30 years of trading and investing experience.

Wei Xiang made over $8 million in the last 8 years through trading alone, while Spencer used his trading profits to travel across 70 countries in the last decade.

Naturally, I thought their win rate must be insanely high.

Maybe 80%… 90%… like what we often see online.

But what shocked me the most during the interview was this:

Their actual win rate is only around 30% to 50%.

Yes… you read that right.
And honestly, that completely changed the way I look at trading.

Because most people assume that being a profitable trader means you need to win almost every trade.

But according to them, that’s not the real game.

The real game is predictability and profitability.

One thing they shared that really stayed with me was how important risk-to-reward ratio is.

Since their win rate isn’t extremely high, they focus heavily on making sure that when they win…

They win BIGGER than what they lose.

So even if they lose multiple trades, a few strong winning trades are enough to make them massively profitable overall.

And I think this is the ugly truth about trading that most people online don’t talk about.

Not every professional trader has a crazy high win rate.

Not every profitable trader wins all the time.

In fact, many of them lose very often.

But they understand risk management deeply.

They understand probability deeply.

And they know how to protect their downside while letting their winners run.

I’m currently editing this podcast episode right now…

And honestly, it’s one of the most eye-opening conversations I’ve had about trading.

Both Wei Xiang and Spencer shared very transparently about the realities of trading, the mistakes most beginners make, and what it really takes to survive long term in the market.

There were so many moments during the interview where I just sat there thinking…

“Wow… most people really don’t know this.”

“Imagine if people knew this… they would start trading very differently.”

I can’t wait to share this episode with you soon 🙂

Arigato!

Chloe
Arigato Investor

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