The most foolish sentence retail investors say is "I want to learn from Buffett." Can the capital scale of retail investors compare with Buffett's?! An elephant says it should push down this tree—that's the elephant's duty; if an ant says the same, it's "stupid"...

For retail investors to truly make money in stock trading, the starting point must be correct. There are only two correct paths:

1. Dollar-cost averaging into the index;

2. Do not use leverage in trading—all, and I mean all gambling-like trades.