Trading with money you don't care about will prevent you from being affected by profit and loss numbers. You can easily grow a small amount of capital by simply following your own trading ideas.

However, once you grow your small capital, if you want to turn it into a large sum, you will start to care about that money and become influenced by profit and loss numbers. Gradually, you may fall back into the old pattern of repeatedly hitting stop losses and slowly losing it back.

This cycle continues, constantly raising your psychological limits, both upper and lower, and continuously increasing your available capital limits. If you haven't been wiped out by the market yet, but haven't made significant profits either, you are probably not far from that money. There is a premise here: you have not been wiped out by the market. 🤡