as trader you can definitely make yourself a more than decent profit while you trade against the volatility. that's exactly what i have been doing lately. the price goes up which of course benefits me, and also i am increasing the number of coins i have whilst trading. it's a win win for me.
your capital will only determine how much you can earn or lose not the fact that you can take advantage of price fluctuations or not. you can actually start with a small amount of money to begin trading and learn things the easy way and then increase the amount and since fees are also calculated based on a percentage of the size of the trade then you don't need to worry about the small amount either.
Its always good to enter the trading market with small amount that we can afford to loose, and even if we loose at primary stage we should take it positively as its gonna be learning experience for us which can be helpful in future.
I tried to do some trading before. I entered the market with small amount and lost most of it. So I hold now.