Hi, for this type of strategy you may be better off opening a personal account at IB. This way you won't have to pass any exams and IB's commissions are competitive. The down-side of IB is not having access to firm's capital, but do you really need it? You can get started with 10k at IB and...
you may also consider capital structure arbitrage. If a company has both common and preferred stocks issued and if your trading platform allows trading preferred then you could set up an auto-trader to leg-in at specific spread price levels. Or you could do this manually but it's a bit more...
Hi Henry, my auto-trader connects to Sterling Trader Pro for execution of pair-trades and I think I can help you out with your task. Please let me know more details either here or in a private message.
Thanks,
Alex