Most traders underestimate capital needed; should maintain 12 months expenses separate from trading account.

And then when they go full time, they don't actually have nearly enough money actually set aside not for their trading account, but to live and for their trading account to generate income in the amounts that are necessary. I think people don't even go down that kind of mathematics rabbit hole where it's like, you need a lot more money than you think to be able to afford your life. A night out is not, you know, 50 bucks anymore. It's hundreds of dollars, rent is thousands of dollars, car, whatever else you have, and you still have to have an account that is growing and compounding and increasing in size, and it allows you to be patient. I usually tell people you wanna have 12 months of living expenses set aside.