https://redstartjournal.com/blog/ The written journal: one person learning to invest in public, starting from a debt. Never financial advice. en https://redstartjournal.com/blog/the-fake-rich/ https://redstartjournal.com/blog/the-fake-rich/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Red Files Every screenshot is a plane that came back. I went looking for the ones that didn't, and found them in the small print. • The feed is a filter, not a sample: wins get posted, losses go home quietly. • When the EU looked in 2018, 74 to 89 out of 100 ordinary CFD accounts lost money. Sellers now have to print their own number. • In a study from Brazil, 97 out of 100 people who kept day trading for 300 days or more lost money. • Most wins you see are real. What's missing is the bottom of the fraction: out of how many?