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Every broker answers this question with its minimum deposit, which is a number chosen by a marketing department. This sheet answers it without the sales agenda. The technical minimum is genuinely small. The practical floor is set by arithmetic — what position sizing requires, and what costs do to small accounts — and the ceiling is set by one non-negotiable rule about affordability. Between those bounds there is no universal number, so instead of inventing one, this sheet gives you the framework that produces yours. One of its legitimate outputs is zero.

Two different questions

“How much do I need to open an account?” has a small answer almost everywhere — often nothing at all, sometimes a token amount. ▲Leverage is what makes that possible: a deposit of $100 can satisfy the ▲margin requirement on a position many times that size. But margin is only the entry ticket. The question that decides whether trading is workable is different: how much money does it take to run a sane risk process — small, consistent risk per trade, survivable losing streaks, costs that do not dominate? That is the minimum viable account, and it is set by arithmetic, not by the broker.

Be careful with the comforting version of leverage that small-account marketing leans on. Higher leverage does not make a small account more viable; it changes how much margin a position locks up, not how much a 30-pip move costs. The loss on a 0.01-lot trade is the same $3 whether the account's leverage is 30:1 or 500:1 — the higher figure simply lets you open positions whose losses the account cannot absorb. Leverage moves the entry ticket. It never moves the floor this sheet is about.

The sizing floor: 1% at three account sizes

The sizing framework from this region's anchor sheet risks about 1% of equity per trade, with the stop distance set by the chart. Run that rule at three account sizes on the survey's anchor — EUR/USD, a 30-pip stop, $10 per pip per standard lot — and remember the smallest trade most brokers offer is 0.01 lots, which moves $0.10 per pip.

The $100 row is the sizing floor made visible. The formula asks for 0.003 lots; the platform's smallest order is three times larger. Trading it anyway means every position risks 3% — one bad week of five losses costs about 14% of the account, and the 1% rule never existed. The $1,000 row clears the floor with room to vary stop distance; the $10,000 row barely notices it. The floor moves with your stops: wider stops on slower setups push the viable minimum higher. The gain side stays symmetric throughout — the 0.01-lot trade that risks $3 over 30 pips also earns $3 on the same 30 pips in your favour, which is the next problem.

Cost drag — and the expectation trap behind it

Costs scale fairly: the spread takes the same fraction of a sized trade at every account level, and overnight financing does too. What does not scale is the relationship between outcomes and hopes. Win $3 — a perfectly executed trade on the $100 account — and the result is invisible next to the effort it took. The damage is rarely the $0.09 of spread; it is what the invisibility does to behaviour. The trader who wants $200 a month from a $200 account needs to double it monthly, and no honest risk process produces that. So the process is abandoned: risk jumps to 20% a trade, leverage does what leverage does, and the account finishes as a statistic. Underfunded accounts mostly do not bleed out on costs. They are demolished by the risk taken to make small money feel meaningful.

The honest framing for any account you fund: its job for the first year is not income. Its job is to let you execute a process under real conditions at a survivable scale. If the size of the wins at that scale feels pointless, the answer is not more risk — it is acknowledging that the bankroll, or the ▲balance you can responsibly commit, is not there yet.

The affordability test: define “lose entirely” first

Before any deposit, run the test in the strip at the top of this sheet, and run it honestly: imagine the balance at zero — not down 20%, zero — and audit the consequences. Nothing about rent, debt payments, or obligations to other people may appear in the audit. This is also where ▲drawdown thinking starts: an account that would be reloaded from savings after every losing streak is not an affordable account, it is a leak. The amount that passes this test is your ceiling. Everything else in this sheet only sets the floor beneath it.

The framework: four questions that produce your number

1. What amount could go to zero without changing anything that matters in your life? That figure — not the broker's minimum — is your ceiling.
2. At 1% risk per trade, can that amount fund the stops you actually use at your broker's smallest trade size? Below roughly $500–$1,000 with ordinary stop distances, the answer is usually no.
3. Are you indifferent to the dollar size of the wins for the next year? If $5 wins will tempt you to raise risk, the account will not survive the temptation.
4. Have you already run the full process — sizing, stops, journal — on a demo for long enough that it feels boring? If not, money adds nothing except consequences.

Your number is whatever passes all four: large enough for question two, small enough for question one, honest enough for questions three and four. The questions are deliberately independent — a large affordable amount does not excuse a process that is not ready, and a polished demo record does not make rent money available. For many readers the four answers do not currently intersect at any positive number: the affordable amount sits below the sizing floor, or the process is not yet boring. That result is not a failure of the framework. It is the framework working, and it has a standard output.

The legitimate answer of zero

A demo account runs the entire machine — live prices, real spreads, working stops, the full sizing ritual — at a stake of exactly nothing. It will not teach you what losing real money feels like; that lesson is real and it arrives soon enough. What it teaches first is whether you can execute a process at all, which is the cheaper lesson to learn and the wrong one to pay for. Stay at zero until the process is boring, then fund the smallest amount that still passes question two. Boredom on demo is the cheapest entry requirement in trading, and the most commonly skipped.