If you have allotted 25k at the beginning of the year to a trading system, what return would you expect? For example if you put the money into a lawn mowing company: 25k for a truck, and a ride along mower at say $20 per hour, 6 hours a day, 5 days a week= $2400 per month. Anything less than that and you might as well start mowing lawns right?
It makes sense. For trading, you can consider compounding. Whether you trade with 1 lot, 10 lots or 100 lots, you use exactly the same equipment/strategy/effort. Whether you want to start a WXY Lawn Service is up to you.
seems like the opportunity cost of mowing is much greater. Takes a lot of time, you cannot do other things concurrently, no secondary benefits (ie. learning). If you can get a robot mower similar to farming GPS controlled tractors then do it at scale. Then automate your system as well. QED