Based on my 30 years experience, your chances are actually pretty good...if you have discipline.
If an institutional manager is given $100 million to invest, he HAS to buy something. He can’t just tell his boss or the client there is nothing good to buy right now. You, on the other hand, can just sit on your money until the right opportunity comes along.
I’m glad you’ve had success, it’s an accomplishment. I’ve done fair, not good. But I know real estate well, so that’s where I’ve done well. I have done better with stocks since I moved more into preferred stocks with big dividends and the S+P index fund SPY.
I look mainly for income these days and don’t do much trading.