Leaving IB to trade?

Hi everyone, my dream with Finance was to be able to trade Forex for a living ever since I was in highschool and now that I am graduating college soon I noticed that I have been getting positive returns but the only thing holding me back is my IB offer and low capital. At what point would it be "ok" to leave banking to trade fulltime? I would like to be out once I save atleast USD50k because I think I could make a living with that amount of capital (based on my current returns) while growing the account more. But I also don't want to be seen as the guy who just arrived in IB and is leaving a few months or a year after joining, has anyone here been on a similar boat?

I mostly want to because there are other things in life that I am passionate about and I have been able to achieve my results with a large time freedom.

What would you guys recommend?

Thank you!

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you’re actually making 100% a year trading FX? Start a myfxbook, build a track record for a year, and then get mentees and charge them outrageous amounts for a course to get more capital to trade with. If you’re actually able to consistently make 100% CAGR on your capital fuck IB

 
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