Most algorithmic trading tools assume you have six figures to trade. Thesis is tuned the other direction: PDT-aware position behavior, fee-aware risk sizing, and a strategy bias toward many small-to-medium wins rather than a handful of home runs.
The Pattern Day Trader rule flags any margin account under $25k that opens and closes the same equity position four times in five business days. Blow through it and your account gets restricted for 90 days. Plenty of otherwise-good trading tools will happily rip a small account into a PDT freeze because they weren't designed with small accounts in mind.
Thesis is built around the rule, not against it. The default cadence holds positions across longer time horizons rather than scalping intraday reversals, active-ticker counts stay sane on the lower tiers, and concurrent-position caps are tied to your plan so the system can't accidentally over-trade on a small balance.
Trading crypto or futures on a cash account? The rule doesn't apply at all — and Thesis supports crypto too.
Pick the profile that matches how much swing you can stomach. The bot translates that single choice into per-trade risk, position concentration, and how skeptical the AI has to be before taking a setup.
Even when the math says a wider position is "available," concentration caps stop the bot from putting most of your equity into one ticker because volatility happened to be quiet.
Small accounts get destroyed by spread on quiet tickers. Stop placement and target placement both account for round-trip fees so a tight-ATR symbol can't stop itself out on its own slippage.
Cross your daily or weekly loss threshold and trading pauses for your account. You get an alert and decide when to re-enable. The bot doesn't keep swinging after a bad session.
On a small account, one catastrophic loss ends the strategy. Position sizing alone doesn't prevent that — you also need an exit discipline that books gains quickly and caps losses before they compound. The bot is tuned that way: short holding times, conservative profit targets, fast trailing once a trade is actually working, and time stops so positions don't drift past their setup.
The edge on small-account trading isn't picking tops or bottoms. It's the boring stuff: sizing, fees, and exits. That's where we put the engineering.
Not the one you'll have once the tool "scales up." Start with what you've got.
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