Trading is actually a person's money-making system.

It starts from learning, gradually taking shape through repeated market refinement. Practice,总结, reflection, being trapped, margin calls... After repeatedly falling on your face, you can develop your own set of strategies—perhaps technical analysis, maybe a mature quantitative strategy, or something else entirely. The entire process relies entirely on yourself; no one can help. In this system, all the money earned comes from your self-management and your understanding of the market. Losses are also entirely borne by you. This is the loneliness of trading—no employees, no supply chain, no customers. It’s just you facing the market, with enemies and friends both being yourself.

Doing business is different; it’s a collective money-making system.

A good business looks incredibly simple: what product to sell, where to find customers, where the money comes from—some people can see through it at a glance. But actually running it? Much harder. It takes months or even years of polishing: finding a reliable team, adjusting workflows, optimizing supply chains, building brand trust, and handling various emergencies. The tossing and trial-and-error during this period is the true moat that turns an idea into a stable cash flow. Business profits come from multiple aspects—team execution, brand accumulation, scale growth—and also require managing complex issues like personnel relationships, trust, and profit sharing. In today’s market environment, building a complete business system is even more difficult.

Compared to that, trading tests an individual’s self-discipline and cognition; business tests an organization’s systemic capability. Neither has shortcuts.