$AT Just completed the profit-taking. Watching the account's gains, I fell into the old familiar reflection—the importance of the scale of funds.
Honestly, when I have less capital, trading feels like looking at the market through a magnifying glass; every percentage point of rise or fall is amplified several times. The opportunities you observe are real, and your logic for execution is clear, but because of limited principal, the profit space is tightly constrained.
If one day someone gives me 1% of a large fund, I could operate blindly and within ten years roll out a hundred billion dollars. The problem is, there are no "what ifs" in the world. So I still have to rely on myself, accumulating bit by bit.
Many people look at traders with large capital and think they must be highly skilled. But from another perspective, if they had the same amount of funds, ordinary people could easily grow and strengthen their positions with their eyes closed. Ultimately, the scale of funds is the insurmountable gap.
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SelfCustodyIssues
· 15h ago
When the principal is small, you're really just playing with the market. No matter how good the returns look in percentage, it's useless; you still have to rely on time to accumulate slowly.
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MultiSigFailMaster
· 15h ago
That's right, the principal is the ceiling; no matter how good the technology is, you need bullets.
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SelfCustodyBro
· 15h ago
Having a small principal really is a bottleneck; it's not a technical issue, but a leverage problem.
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FlippedSignal
· 15h ago
Really, the principal is the ceiling; no matter how strong the technology is, it can be limited by the principal.
$AT Just completed the profit-taking. Watching the account's gains, I fell into the old familiar reflection—the importance of the scale of funds.
Honestly, when I have less capital, trading feels like looking at the market through a magnifying glass; every percentage point of rise or fall is amplified several times. The opportunities you observe are real, and your logic for execution is clear, but because of limited principal, the profit space is tightly constrained.
If one day someone gives me 1% of a large fund, I could operate blindly and within ten years roll out a hundred billion dollars. The problem is, there are no "what ifs" in the world. So I still have to rely on myself, accumulating bit by bit.
Many people look at traders with large capital and think they must be highly skilled. But from another perspective, if they had the same amount of funds, ordinary people could easily grow and strengthen their positions with their eyes closed. Ultimately, the scale of funds is the insurmountable gap.