I think from all you listed in your write-up, the worst of them all is them all is 'trading because of your influencer friends do so'. I have seen alot of people do this, and where it all get frustrating is when they just jump into trading without learning the behind concept. At the end, they come back to whine on how bad it is.
It's okay for someone influence you onto trading but at least, if they do, you should try to learn it before jumping into it
lol you can't just be influenced in a way that you'll start doing it without even knowing it first. When we say influenced that is a process of being interested on a particular matter, like on trading if you are influenced by one of your friends then you'll be interested in trading and you'll try to learn it. I also have friends whom I influenced with trading and crytocurrency, what I did is I tell them a news or a story that could touch their mind some kind of catching attention so they'll be get interested, but I did not taught them how trade, they learned it themselves.
Remember the proverb about teaching a man to fish?
; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime