#美联储重启降息步伐 Why do small funds never seem to grow big? Many people think it’s due to bad luck or poor skills, but what really holds you back is your "psychological endurance."

You’re not actually fighting the market; you’re battling your own emotions.

**How distorted are your actions when your account only has a few thousand or tens of thousands?**

A floating loss of 200 makes you anxious, a floating profit of 300 makes you eager to cash out. When prices rise, you’re afraid of giving back profits; when they fall, you fear liquidation—you’re not really trading, you’re being held hostage by your capital. In this state, let alone scaling up your position size, your equity curve will always be stuck beneath that invisible ceiling.

I went through the same thing myself. The real turning point wasn’t learning some advanced technique, but one day suddenly realizing: **losses are just the cost, the price of admission to the market.**

From that moment, everything changed for me: I stopped hesitating when opening positions, cut losses when needed, didn’t panic during volatility, and no longer rushed to take profits. When the market really started moving, I was finally able to capture a full segment of the trend. I didn’t try to catch tops or bottoms, but long-term profits began to accumulate naturally.

**Once your capital really does grow, you’ll face a second hurdle.**

Chasing altcoins and hot trends is fine with small capital, but once your size increases, your strategies must upgrade as well. Small-cap coins may look tempting but are actually liquidity traps; hot narratives sound exciting but are really just ways to give away your money. If you keep using those reckless small-cap strategies, you’re basically just carrying water for others.

So I shifted my rhythm from intraday chasing to swing structures on 1H, 4H, and 12H timeframes. From "fast" to "accurate," from frequency to patience. When you reach a certain capital size, you need to operate at the right pace for that size.

**One last heartfelt point: what you really need to overcome was never the market—it’s always yourself.**

If you’re still stuck at a certain capital level, unable to grow or break out, it’s not because you lack ability; it’s because you haven’t yet crossed that fate-defining psychological barrier. When you truly dare to handle pressure, dare to execute, and dare to stay steady, your small funds will naturally grow larger.

From that moment on, it’s no longer the market choosing you—it’s you choosing the market.