As a programmer and an aspiring amateur quant myself I always ponder upon the possibilities of more people starting & managing mini hedge funds (e.g. with a sta

As a programmer and an aspiring amateur quant myself I always ponder upon the possibilities of more people starting & managing mini hedge funds (e.g. with a starting captial of 200~500k?) with a mix of fundementals + algo-trading with multi-agent simulations, game-theoretic modelling, etc. As more platforms like ploygon.io, alpaca.markets emerge as well as more DeFi stuff gaining tractions, I really hope in the next 10 years regulations, etc, in the financial space would leave more rooms for smaller players to thrive.