Trading is something you do constantly to get a small amount of profit and do it constantly for 365 days a year in order to actually reach to a level that is acceptable but not super high. If you actually trade 50 weeks a year for 5 days a week for 8 hours a day and finish the year with 20% that is good, if you finish anything under that is a bit difficult but if you try to finish with 100%+ you will instead lose all your money and not make any.
People do not realize how hard it is to have a 20% average profit every year for years, if you can put a certain amount of money (doesn't have to be a million dollars but should be 100 bucks neither) and trade it with 20% per year then you would leave your child an amazing life after 50 years of doing that. That is what people should aim at but unfortunately they miss that point.