Ask yourself, who is this money lost to?
You see, the most skilled players in this market understand that
an altcoin is just like a collection basket that is passed from person to person in a church. Day after day, more money is thrown into the basket which pushes the price of the coin even higher. So when you look closer, you will see that with each passing day MORE money is thrown into the basket.
So, by default,
a trader who puts himself in the correct position in this market, at the right time, will ALWAYS make off with piles and piles of BTC. Because this is how the market has been designed to function.
Someone who understands the mechanics of price movement knows that there are some coins that have all of the criteria needed for a major price advancement to occur and, on the other hand, there are coins that lack these conditions.
So simply put, the skilled trader positions himself in as many of these opportunities as he can find..
Therefore instead of merely attempting to turn a petty $20 into $100 a skilled trader can very quickly turn a sum as bulky as $1,000 into $10,000 within 30 days... because he is no longer working within the confines of 500BTC worth of daily trading volume he has widened his net to capture portions of 14,000BTC ($3,400,232) worth of monthly volume
Totally digging that church basket analogy. That's an interesting way of looking at it, cause the plate starts of empty, then gets passed around the church and every single person puts in tiny little fragments of money ("only trade what you can afford to lose") but by the time that plate has been passed through the entire church, they end up with thousands of dollars in donations
so a trade is just like that. you have to wait for it to pass from person to person in the market, eventually a fat stack of cash will have built up