How much money did you lose, before at least becoming a breakeven trader? Almost every trader could point to blowing out accounts or at least losing sizable amounts before they learned to - call it "tuition" or "paying your dues..."
I don't know how useful this question is since it depends on your net worth. If someone makes 50 bucks a day that sounds like shit but if there account is $1000, that aint bad. Someone else might make $4000 but with a multi million dollar account. It might be more interesting if you asked how much of a person's liquid net worth they lost in the beginning. I'm guessing most traders lost over 50% of that when they started out.
honestly it depends if you are stupid enough to trade w/ out an edge. I can't say I've dropped > $2,000 in neg since I started. Of course I take much bigger swings now... like I lost ~5,000 today
-35k,over almost 4 years. Took me a while to get back on my feet and get my head together after that.