QuoteDislikedIn a fair game (one with no information advantages) between two players that continues until one trader goes bankrupt, the player with the lower amount of capital has a higher probability of going bankrupt first. Since the retail speculator is effectively playing against the market as a whole - which has nearly infinite capital - he will almost certainly go bankrupt.
In forex you don't have to match the dollars. You can trade a penny a pip and still grow a micro account by 10 or 20% per month or whatever. Everything is proportional.
I opened a commodities account with $7000 many years ago. That's not enough to trade full contracts with proper MM -- in other words, there was a minimum trade size. A few bad trades and it was over.