There are only two ways to judge our trading performance which go hand in hand, the first one is the money in our pockets, if at the end of our trading session we have more money than when we begun then this is a good sign, as people should trade for only one reason and that is to make money.
The second criteria we need to use is the process which allowed to get those profits, after all if those profits come from a fortunate movement of the markets that saved us from losing money then we did something wrong and as such those results are not repeatable, however if those profits came from a deep analysis of the markets and we have backtested our strategy many times and those results fit what we can expect out of it, then we are doing things the right way and can expect more sessions like that on the future.
The second part is very important, there are a lot of people who made a wrong move but they were lucky that the price of that thing didn't go down, and even went up, they think they did something right. Unfortunately they repeat the same wrong thing because initially it made them a profit, and then they realize that it is not going the way they want it to go and they end up losing money because of it.
I hope that it gets better eventually but when it does, I also believe that it is going to cause a lot of people to realize their mistakes. Newbies need to make sure that they learn how to do it the right way, if they do then they are going to end up making a decent amount of profit without a doubt and should return with a profit.
I understand the fear that making a big mistake would be terrible and you would lose money. But the reality is that there has been a lot of people who made a mistake and still earned, and a lot of people who took a risk and earned a lot of money from it as well.
This is why you should be trying to do a bit better, you may not end up seeing the results be good in the end, but if you could put aside even just a tiny bit of money to make a profit, that would be quite good. Otherwise you are going to be safe all your life but you are not going to get any bigger neither, or not that fast at least. I hope that it could get to a point where we would all be investing mostly into bitcoin, and make right trades, but also use just a little bit of it on smaller stuff.