Not true. I have a commodities trading account I use to trade corn, soybeans, an...

		toomuchtodo on Nov 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I made $500k with machine learning and high fr... Not true. I have a commodities trading account I use to trade corn, soybeans, and hogs. Minimum opening balance was $5K (Tradestation). Scottrade and others have a minimum of $500. Now if you're talking margin accounts, sure, you're going to need more.