Open a "premium active trader" etrade account, with a standard cash (non margin) security.
Then link a checking account from your home bank and transfer it all in.
Cept DON'T buy anyhthing with it, just keep it in your brokerage cash unused index.
It earns cash interest DAILY. And in a month it can be 200
Then continue to sit on it till you have 1000.00
Then anything >1000 you earn daily, use that to buy random stock to practise with