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Account must sustain living expenses without compromising growth or handling natural trading variance.

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The last thing that we haven't discussed here is the actual account size. Now, I've laid out some reasons why I don't think you should be pulling money out of your trading account to fund your lifestyle. You should set that money aside, or you should have a job covering those expenses. But maybe you want to be someone who trades purely for a living. That's your only source of income. That's your prerogative. Well, your account needs to be big enough that you can pull out that monthly night every single month, or ideally, in my opinion, in large increments. So three months at a time, or even a full year at a time without it affecting your account's ability to scale and compound, and being able to handle the natural variance that you're going to have in trading. You're going to have some down months. You might go on a losing streak. Is your account big enough that you can still pull out your living expenses and be okay? Whatever you think you need in terms of account size, it's probably not even close to what you actually need to be able to sustainably draw out of that balance and continue to grow that account and not allow that draw and the natural blur between your living expenses and trading stack to affect your ability to execute your system. And I've given you a bunch of reasons why in this video, but again, it's your prerogative. Whatever you want to do, what I will say is it's probably more than you think. You also need to realize you're not going to make money every month, and you're probably not going to make as much money every month as you think. In places like crypto, specifically
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