Why Small Trading Wins Add Up Bigger Than You Think

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[00:00:00]If you take these paper cuts, they're not going to kill your account, you learn what not to do, and you stay safe.

[00:00:05]I don't like leverage, I don't like going all in. I have a shockingly, embarrassingly few six-figure wins, and I have never had a seven-figure win.

[00:00:14]Some of my students, like Jack Kellogg, just made 3 million on BYND. They have bigger wins because they go bigger. It's not the end of the world not to make a million dollars in a day. You don't have to go that big. I know that everyone wants to go bigger. I always tell people that if you trade scared, then trading isn't so scary. There's a saying like scared money doesn't make money. Yes, it does. You can be scared. My average profit over 20-plus years is just $1,500 per trade, but that adds up. And if you have perspective, and you're like, "Wow, wait a minute. If I do $1,500 per trade, obviously you're not going to win every time." But let's just say you win $1,500 on 1,000 trades, that's $1.5 million.

[00:00:51]And people are like, "Wow, like math is fun." Like they don't realize that.