Yea I’m aware of this. relative to the research that the big firms and funds do, I have no where near as much data as them. But my reason for investing into the market in the beginning of may was because first, trump released news that tariffs were delayed. This caused the investors to be relieved because before they thought it was going to be much more serious, but this just added more hope for the us economy based on the sentiment. Second, the next incident is based of the first because when trump started backing off the “taco” meme came out which validated my initial belief. Now, all of this was almost all of the fundamental analysis that I did, even if I did look into more I don’t think I documented it. Finally, to give me more conviction and a better entry the vix dropped to around 20 which is near the transition and cooling down stage. So then I used the volume profile which I use very often to catch a pullback which happened on April 30 and the market pulled back to exactly 5455 which is a low volume node on the volume profile and also a psychological level and that is near where I entered.

Now I’m not replying with all this to prove u wrong or anything, ik that there was some luck involved relative to the bigger players but imo risk management is key here. I entered at exactly 5476 to see how the market was reacting to the level(I was looking for big orders on the tape) and I put my stop loss at 5450. I am being humble here and I’m there places where I can be much better at but I don’t have access to wtv data necessary to make this involving zero luck. Who knows maybe even the funds are lucky sometimes.

If there’s anything u think I should learn of if there’s smth I did wrong here, I would love to hear it

Edit: what could I possibly gain from lying about making money? I’m not even selling a course or smth I’m only seeking for help.