Getting liquidated is not surprising, it’s only on its amount varies. If you know exactly what you are doing, you can be liquidated today but you will always recover and even pile up your profits eventually.
Using small capitals for trading makes it less painful when you get your prediction wrong but many traders don't take this precaution when trading. They're always thinking about getting all their profits in the smallest number of trade but it doesn't favour them. The reason traders are losing more than investors is because traders are inpatient, they don't know how to wait on the market to give them good profits. They're quick to sell when the market is having a correction but hodlers don't behave like this. Hodlers are always patient and this makes them the better investors when comparing traders and investors. You can still make profits despite anyone that you decide to do. Don't see any as less possible to mark you profits because we have winners that are traders and also investors.