If you really have discipline, then you should be able to control yourself and limit your trading (learning) budget to maybe 5% or less of your whole BTC holdings. So if you were to have $10k of value in your BTC investment portfolio, then you would be limited to a $500 total trading/learning budget... and there is not a whole hell of a lot that you can do with that amount of value.. but you still can attempt to learn with it..
Yes, it will be a small budget to achieve any significant results (at least in my case), but it may be enough budget to try what I can do, whether I can increase it, or it will decrease.
By the way, I do recommend using small amounts of value to learn rather than fucking around with those learning platforms in which there is no value, and you are just using play money.. fuck that nonsense.. From my point of view it is better to use actual value.. but just use really small amounts.
I have told this story before, but let me just reiterate it.. For my first 18 months in bitcoin, I did not sell any bitcoin, and if I did give some away or use some bitcoin to buy something, then I would replace anything that I sold (and almost always more than I sold) within a few days of the sale/gift.
So.. part of the point, is that some places allow you to trade as low as $5 per trade, and if you calculate fees, you can make your spreads in ways in which you are just practicing with very small amounts, and by the way, I never used leverage and I never wanted to learn how to use leverage because on a personal basis I did not want to go there...
Yes, I understand this well, trading in small volumes will simply be meaningless, since the feeses will eat up most of the profits. And by the way, I have not even thought about leverage yet, it seems too risky to me.
You are right, if you look at the entire history of bitcoin, it is hard not to notice that it is constantly growing, this is a wonderful property that I really like. So far, my number one task is not to lose a single satoshi, if I manage to multiply it, it will be good, but the priority task is to save everything I have.