With that year of span, I guess you already have a good experience in trading so you can lessen the risk even just the basic decision you can now make on your own and not wait for the signals of other people. Trading could be easy money for those who perform well, giving a lot of effort, time, and of course risk with their knowledge and commitment in trading but again not all the time the market is your friend, still there's a risk but with your experience, you can lessen the risk and make a quick decision with the current market situation.
I do agree that spending a year both just learning trading, and also trying to become better and also maybe even trading a bit with small amount of money, will end up with someone becoming a great trader, that's the most important thing. I get that not everyone will be like that and we are going to end up with results that are not awesome at all times, but we have seen greater results one way or another, that should be the key figure here.
I get that we may see some situations change at times, and there are times when even a veteran great trader who is expert at it could still end up with a loss, but that doesn't mean that we are going to get easy solutions, we just get whatever we could and just being better is the end game here, if you are better then that's enough.