day trading is profitable for people that borderline speculating with high leverage, usually with 20x - 100x leverage, a slight price movement already results in either big loss or short loss, people are usually using that to keep them from wasting too much time, but of course it requires extensive knowledge and experience for anyone to be able to profit.
if you don't leverage then you will need big capital for your trades to be actually meaningful and can give you good enough profit otherwise if you use small capital then the profit will be really small too.
it's always the higher risk the higher profit kind of thing.
so if you think the profit is too small with day trading maybe your strategy is wrong.
I don't know, I am kinda scared if such leverages, to be honest. I understand that they give you much more opportunity to make significant profit even on a small deposit, but if the price goes in the wrong direction, your position can be liquidated in a matter of seconds and this is dangerous. I personally have never traded with leverage higher than x5, so it’s hard for me to imagine how people take x100.
The x5 up to x10 leverage is actually safe, regardless of the amount of the fund that you will make a futures trade on the exchange. Just don't go as high as x20, especially if you're not sure about something like this.
But the only people who often do that are those who are in a hurry to make a lot of money in trading and are greedy for money to get huge in the scenario.