To become a trader you must have a lot of knowledge about cryptoucurrency and you have to have lots of friends to get more knowledge. I think this is very difficult now to find a potential trader to make friends really hard
Acquiring enough knowledge about cryptocurrency is not that easy because you needed to experience all difficulties along with profit. Eventually you may recognize some failures when you decide wrong ideas like selling while the price isn't right, so in the next trades you are more careful so that you won't lose that sell value. Being a trader doesn't need more capital of money, and the only thing that we need to develop is out self control specially in times that we tend to panic of such situations when the coin value declines or drops worst. Well, we really need to experience that before you can call yourself a good trader.
I must agree with you since to become a trader is not necessarily that you need a big capital or a lots of friends. Trading can be mastered through practice, slowly but surely. Buy altcoins and start to trade it with bitcoin then you will learn how the market moves because you will be soon starting to write everything you wanted to know. Do more trading with just a small amount of money so you'll learn what is do's and don't specially if you do some research about it.