All those people with their statistics, but either they've never traded for real, or not been where the OP (and myself) are.
If you think you can scale up that fast and quickly, it's a big mistake. Not every month is going to be as profitable as the previous one, and when things go bad it...
You all make it look a lot simpler than it is. Look, I need food on the table and pay rent. I make about 20% (futures) on my very small (5K) account per month, which is 1K, which barely covers my expenses. Had I been able to compound this year, I would be much further ahead and not looking...
I have pretty much the same problem as leorc. I don't have a 100% mechanical system, it's discretionary in part. But I do have the same history background that I lost a lot of money but finally last year came up with a profitable strategy, that has been thorougly backtested and forward tested...