Trading sounds like a nice venture of theory, but to some of us who have experienced it. It's one rough, hell of a journey. Yes, I have made way more money than I would have if I was doing my profession through trading, but I have also lost a huge amount of money (of course it was the profits I made) in the due process.
You have to be very mentally stable and ready for any outcome. The biggest contributor to trading success is experience and learning from past mistakes.
Success in trading do not just happen easily, its always the fruit of hardwork and patience, and definitely huge losses from the start. I guess your friend has his own reason why he was not able to share to you his side of failure, but what is certain is that if you only trade persistently, and is willing to learn all the lessons brought by your losses, then you will come to succeed in trading at the end of the day. Trading need not to be profitable at first, but it should never come into failure in the end.
We can all become successful traders if we do it right, there are steps we must take to be successful when trading. No one can be successful
instantly, everything needs patience and hard work as you say, because after all hard work and patience will not betray the results. So don't be lazy
to keep working hard and don't let us give up when going through the process to become a successful trader. Therefore, the number of successful
traders is not much, because indeed undergoing the process of becoming a successful trader is not easy, we have to devote everything.
In fact, sometimes we need to experience several losses first to understand how to make the right profit when trading. So it is wrong if someone
says that trading is an easy thing to do, because trading is not just buying at a low price and selling it at a high price. Trading is more complicated
than we think, so if we want to be a successful trader it is not easy to achieve it, it takes hard work and patience.