First, a few words about myself.
I have a looong career in low lvl pvp, which has mostly been focused around Notum Wars.
My very first 'real' tower twink, was a lvl 15 froob trader at rk1, back in '04/'05 somewhere. Later i moved on to rk2 with a payed acc. And made another lvl 15 trader. I've twinked and re-twinked that toon countless times. I've used all the viable weapons over the years (frost scythe, pump master & nelebs rod). I was the first to start to use kizzermole gumboils at such a low level. (at least on rk2)
I've also made & played over 20 twinks at tl1-5 over the years. Most of them being traders. Currently, my (active) twinks are;
lvl 30 notum repulsor enforcer with 2x Mortiig Beaters
lvl 56 trader with Jame & 160 yuttos
lvl 117 notum repulso agent
lvl 158 mbc trader
(setup's in sig if you're curious)
TL;DR
Point is this: I have many years of experience with lowbie tower pvp. More than most forum pvp'ing legends on this forum these days.
Suggestion:
Make trader drains balanced in lowbie pvp. Because right now, all it takes for a low lvl trader twink to win a fight, is to cast 1 nano. Which can be insta-casted. And lands in over 9/10 times.