It's going to be very difficult to do any sort of proper risk management on an account size that is smaller than five figures (and five figures is already very

It's going to be very difficult to do any sort of proper risk management on an account size that is smaller than five figures (and five figures is already very difficult). I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, but saying "just open an Interactive Brokers account" is really closer to the sink side of Sink or Swim philosophy. And trading with less than $10,000 on GDAX sounds like a great way to blow out your account (I don't trade forex so I don't know personally, but I'd be concerned about the drawdown periods on that kind of capital...most of the forex traders I know who do it outside of a firm typically work with $150k+ in capital for this reason). Is cryptocurrency market making/scalping something you personally do?