Pressure breaks process; maintain 12-month runway to trade without financial stress.

Feeling the pressure of needing money right now is going to break your process. It's going to ruin your trading system. Remember, this is not a mindset shift, this is a situation shift. We don't want to need to make money from our trading account in order to pay our bills this month. You want to have all that set aside in your runway, which is point number two. Your runway is your monthly nut times 12. You want to have that set aside in a separate account, that way you know you can survive, you can pay your bills without affecting your trading account. A bad trade, a bad month doesn't hurt your ability to survive.