In this blog post I am going to talk about the reasons behind the long drawdown which went for around 9 months for me and how I overcame it. Also few learnings based on it. THE RISE My second innings in trading started in July 2020. This was the time when Covid had caused lot of people to work from home and lose jobs also. At this point I thought if I can make 20% per year on my savings then I can become financially independent. To do so I looked into trying my hand again in Stock Market. I started with stock tips from IIFL and picked an analyst who used to provide calls for IIFL and traded all of his calls in equal proportion. I was overall in profit of 5 to 10% but effort to track the calls and trade as and when they are provided was too much and was not sustainable in long term along with a job. So then I thought to try out Intraday Future & Option paid tips. Had already destroyed around 11 lakhs in paid tips in my first innings of trading but still went with it in Oct/Nov 202