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There are many brokers that will give you discounted margins for day trading below their advertised rates. With a small account, trade fees become incredibly important. If I were opening a sub 5k account, I would probably look strongly at something like Tradovate because with scalping, you need rock bottom commission.
It's possible yes. Can a beginner with no experience whatsoever do it, probably not. Most of the people commenting seem to have lost because of some psychological error. You need high emotional awareness no matter how big your account is. You have to recognize when you are feeling anger, sadness, euphoria, etc. Because if you can feel them you can ignore them or better yet use them to your advantage. From my experience, feelings of anger, euphoria, frustration and cockiness are account killers. This is just a small aspect of what needs to be learned to trade with a small account or even a large account - because after you can see set-ups developing in real time (if you're a day trader) and correlate TF, its all about monitoring your emotions.
A beginner is better off taking 5k to the market than 50k, without any real experience about how markets move both will blow up, the 5k will just happen sooner. And hopefully after you blow that 5k you realize that this is not easy and that it takes many many hours of screen time just to be able to recognize levels where you have the most institutional and hedge order flow coming in at. These guys move markets, so it only makes sense to follow them. With 5k you have to have superb risk management. You have to have superb timing and patience. moreover, you need an in depth understanding of how the market moves. Forget about why the market just dropped 15 points, focus on how, what was it doing prior to the drop, the behavior is was exhibiting is valuable. SIM is your friend - because before you can make money live you have to be able to make money in sim. Lawyers use mock trials(SIM) when learning or preparing for a case. You practice without loosing your money. Just like you would train for anything trading is no different.
So someone with lots of experience and deep knowledge of how markets move, they can turn a 5k account into anything. no shame in slowly building an account. Many traders /investors didn't start out 50k. Some built from the ground, and it's because they had experience and strong desire to succeed.
Question is do you have method to trade whether 5K, 10K or 100K?
We could have 100K still end up getting in trouble in Futures trading world universe, it also depends on where you are in trading journey, if you are just starting out then you are better off investing that money into Quality Education instead of jumping into game. It may not be what a beginner trader want to hear, over the time it will all makes sense.
