If you just have $100 as initial capital, it's better to use 3x - 5x leverage, and trade with small size.
Winning $1 - $2 per trade maybe seems small, but it's actually 1% - 2% of your portofolio.
If your initial capital is $100,000, it means $1,000 or 2,000.
The goal is to go there, but we start small. We build our skill first and increase the size slowly.