There’s going to be a period of time where your skillset greatly outweighs your portfolio. It’s the most emotionally volatile point in your journey. Day after day you refine your execution, sharpen your read on the market, and yet your net worth stays trapped in some arbitrary figure “hell”. You watch others with 100x your size and realize they don’t have any secret knowledge, just more capital. This is the make or break zone. Being low capital means you have a small window of opportunity to gamble into elite wealth as degenspartan would say. Each trade is like walking across land mines, one or two wrong moves can completely wipe you out. Yet, you know you have what it takes to join the big leagues, your net worth just doesn’t prove it yet. If you generally want to break through you need to find a flow state so strong you refuse to be shaken out of it because on the other side is a 9-5 job waiting for you. Do whatever it takes. In this stage, you’ll feel like you’re going insane until you get that one lucky break which makes it all worth the sacrifice.