Whilst it is clearly good to win trades, many traders cannot properly handle the profits they receive from winning trades, and as a result, they abuse these profits and the profits actually become the catalyst for the destruction of their entire trading account. Once Tom’s trading account hit a certain dollar surplus level, his emotions started dominating his trading decisions, causing him to take too big of risks with his money and trade too frequently. I’m willing to bet that your risk per trade was much more consistent, you were more consistently following your trading strategy, and you were more cognizant of the potential to lose money on any trade, and as a result you were probably more responsible with your trading capital.