Your trading account balance matters much more as you advance in your trading skill than when you’re beginning, yet in order to advance and learn you must risk real money, which in the early-days can be risky and lead to significant damage to your account. You see, in the early days of your trading career, it’s not enough to just be focused on learning to trade, you also must be focused on preserving and (ideally) slowly building your bankroll (money in your account) so that as you progress and learn you have sufficient funds to properly take advantage of your trading abilities in the future. For some reason, most traders don’t seem to connect the dots that in order to survive in trading and produce long-term profits, they have to have money to trade with!