I think you may be coming at this from the wrong angle? Lets say you have a proven ‘strat’. There are many! Unless you have a considerable account balance to trade, then your returns will I fear fall short of ‘paying tuition fees’. Lets look at two examples. Example 1) $100k balance and for the sake of argument, a 2.5% gain averaged out week on week. Nice, $2.5K a week. Example 2) Account balance $1000 and a 2.5% weekly gain = $25. So all things being equal you have two choices. 1) over leverage your positions in the hope of building your account fast and almost certainly blow the account. 2) Compound the 2.5% over a few years to those big numbers. Both unfortunately, I suspect will be less than appealing?