Life is the ultimate value exchange, sure. It is also the ultimate commodity you trade with time as the value measurement. A risky life is what the essence of day trading is, it can be good or bad depending on the timings of all actions and activity and death is simply the end of the trading day; whatever the results, it is always the same cycles of action: Cause, distance, and then effect. The effect is a "sort of" death. What is going on with eternal existence is life, and that is where we can make the most difference. So do what counts the most and success will happen the most. But I did not say "all the time", just "will happen the most."
Nothing in life is perfectly successful, after all because do you think the illusion of "lucky streaks" and "unlucky streaks" exists. We all have the same success and failure rate really. It depends on how and where we do it at, that is all. So, that could sound a little fatalistic, but, still, it is a real fact. When considering a totality, luck is an illusion that does not really exist except in the conceptual mind as an ellogical perception.
So, I can honestly repeat with even more emphasis with an addition: it is always the same cycles of action: Cause, distance, and then effect without matter to how many times it does happen; it will always happen. Not always correctly, not always wrongly, but it will always happen.
The bottom line is losing and winning in the right places and at the right times. All else is academic learning of the laws of how to operate, literally. Sure, if I could make it more plain, I would. But, reality is always the "plain bread" following of laws, not "flashy luck." Although the laws are dynamic, they cut both ways, good and bad; also sometimes in between. Sure, variants on the laws happen, but, reality follows the law of cause and effect very coldly whether if or if not you benefit. Indeed, reality is the referendum of broker in the trade, all else is "cold" market economics, not a political deal. Get what I am saying there? Everything is an objective market, not a subjective political idea.
You do not have to agree with anything I say or you can agree with it all. But the law will be and is the law wherever or not you consider anything as a value is a value. So, success or failure, it depends on how the law is used.