Much better if you trade with study and you have to study about risk management too so you can trade profitionally without losing too much money in trading. In this way you can follow the flow of the market with precautions to avoid too much losing of money.
You are right, trading with a little capital in advance to find out the character of the market and the assets we choose. loss is the risk faced by every trader. but how we cut losses and make them profits is a skill from great experience that we can only get from trying to trade.