The only way to turn a very modest starting capital into an 8 or 9 figure income is to pyramid our profits to the max. For instance, gutsy traders who rode the fantastic up trend in the gold or oil market (from bottom to top) while adding to their winning position on each pullback are now sitting on a fortune.
If you're pyramiding on the way up, then you're adding more and more contracts on each pullback until one larger than normal pullback wipes you out. In late 2007/early 2008 I pyramided Eurodollar futures from $10,000 to $200,000 within a few months until one minor move caused the equity to drop to < $80,000. That amount subsequently was wiped out on other trades.
By your tone you seem to think you know what the heck you're doing. You must be making deep six or 7 figures from your trading? If not, then stfu.
Well of course, a trend cannot go on forever. The trick here is to move your stop as you go along, to protect your profits and avoid a catastrophic and inevitable loss. Sorry to hear that. But I do hope you learned something from that 200 grand loss.
If your pyramid is upside down, the trick is to know when to get out before you're stopped out because your average cost is so high with so many contracts that any medium correction would essentially wipe out your account. Heaven forbid a limit move that would put a debit balance in the account.
That's why successful traders with large positions also buy put options (or call options if they are short).