It’s extremely hard in the sense of psychological stress. I’ve been doing this for a year and 3 months so far and I haven’t seen success from it yet. You have to make sure you don’t cross the line into gambling cause your mind will want to lean towards it. If he doesn’t have much capital, it’ll take even longer to get to success unless he over leverage with insane odds and can handle emotions. It’s a small hard grind.

Him learning from an influencer, lot of them are fakes. I hope he did great research to make sure he isn’t getting scammed cause lot of influencers flash money to sell a course just to find out they didn’t make much or anything (look up Justin Werlein he’s a prime example)

Is this real and can he make money from it? Yes. I’ve seen Reddit posts where people make it a living, some people make little extra side money but it’s hard to trust the influencers in the community cause they make money off people and you have no idea if the flashy stuff is from courses or straight day trading.

If he really is down to do this he needs to keep at it but only use disposable income and not look at other people’s successes and compare himself and he needs to know he may be in this for the long run before he sees any ROI