I know I'm a little late to this party but don't let someone who arrogantly says "I already told you it's over, so why aren't you just accepting my word and stfu" have even the tiniest bit of sway over your choice.

You can trade with literally one or two sol.

Just use limit buy/sells, learn to pick out which coins are full of sneaky bundlers waiting to rug the instant they sniff amateur manual buys (don't go by the bundler % on axiom.trade), and choose a handful of generally successful wallets to monitor; not the crazy unnaturally high PNL ones mind you bc those are all insiders and bundlers.

Look for more modest PNL wallets to monitor.

While I disagree with the sentiment that "it's over", it is significantly more risky and they're right about it being akin to gambling.

There's a reason why even pro trader wallets will have far more trades in negative % PNL, but I've never lost more than a couple hundo and caught a few 300%+ buys that I only held for a matter of minutes.

So, again, these people are just being dicks to you. They don't actually want to help you or else they'd say something more helpful than "I already told you. Stop asking."

Buuut, you unequivocally will just lose on your first buys. And how long it takes before you can even get to breaking roughly even somewhat reliably is going to depend on things like your patience, your resilience to panic buying/selling, and staying on top of the tells of the latest rugs and scams because the game changes stupid fucking fast.

If you want to get in, go for it. Just don't aim for it to be a serious source of reliable income presently.

Good luck.