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You need atleast 3-5 years of consistency to be able to prove your proftiability.

1.5% daily would make you on par with Warren Buffett within 3years.

Unless you are living on like $200 a month I think you need an extra digit in that account before you can pull it off.

I went full time and it was too early. This was around covid so I was laid off and had nothing else to do. I've been full time ever since though I was able to make it work

Don't listen to this cap. You can make a living with trading futures . 

Yes, I trade full time. You will need a lot more than 40k to trade 40k with a clear head. Right now you are describing a situation where you are going to be full porting your account every trade, and that account is what is going to keep a roof over your head and food on the table. That's not going to work out well. Everyone's different but I'd say you need at least 120k to be trading 40k without getting in your own way.

I would not go full time thinking 40k is enough. Something like 300k probably isn't even enough. I've been trading stocks for 10 years. I make enough that I could comfortably quit my job. I still like having health insurance and a 401k.

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I can speak from personal experience.

Trading momentum allows the biggest gains; and also the biggest losses, if you don't manage risk. I also trade a lot of momentum stocks.

Yes, you COULD technically survive off of $40k right now... if everything were perfect and we didn't have inflation and such. 1% a day on 40k is $400. Problem is, you have taxes and inflation. And then you have inevitable losses.

To be successful, you need to keep growing your account. You also need to account for inflation, because $400 today is only $100 in 5-10 years.

Now, factor in cold markets and downturns. You need to be making enough to survive off of, PLUS enough to grow your account, in the worst markets. That means you should be able to survive off of maybe .1%-.5% gains daily, plus have enough left over to grow your account.

That means you REALISTICALLY need about $100k to survive in today's market and closer to $500k to do this long term. With $100k, you can do 1% a day, take .5% for profit, .5% for compounded growth.

Now factor in sizing and slippage. You can YOLO $40k positions relatively easy in the early mornings. $100k, not so easy. $200k, definitely not as easy. So as you grow, you have to account for less returns on the account as a whole, or you need more exposure over smaller sizes. Both increase risk.

This means as your accounts get bigger, you get less exposure (unless you just have zero risk management), which means your gains will not be as consistently-large as they are in a 40k account.

So again, $40k is a starting point. For me, $250k would be the point I transition back to trading full time. I would also start divesting and diversifying gains made over $250k back into index and market funds, but that's another topic.