You don’t need a thousand.
You need to
become an expert trader/investor which is measured by his/her ability to follow a process, adjust to changing conditions and most of all ... understanding ourselves in that setting.
That’s a quote from FutureTrader71
There’s little to no edge in the market.
You need to recognize it first.
Think in term of probabilities.
What make this opportunity better or worse than a 1to1 flip coin ? Most of the time Traders take sucker bets and they end up losing really Fast and Big.
First step towards profitability is to avoid making mistakes or negative Expected Value plays.
Have a look at card counting, see what kind of edge they have and how they handle it hands after hands after hands after hands.
BlackJackApprenticeship on YouTube is a nice channel about BlackJack and Advantage Players.
Trading isn’t what you think it is.
Every game can be beaten under the right conditions. What game are you playing ?
What are the rules, informations and conditions that help you beat your game ? We ain’t playing the same game. That’s why there’s a buyer for every seller.
Find your niche.
Watched a documentary once, on the California Energy Crisis, I believe. A guy said the best trades are always some kind of arbitrage “Law of one Price”.
Talking about rules … here are some elementary ones :