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Forex is traded over the counter, not on an exchange. Therefore you must do your due diligence when selecting a broker, or you risk being front-run and ripped off on the spreads.

You need to have a margin account to short stock. Technically you're always using margin when you sell a stock short, but you can limit your position size to less than or equal to the cash value of your account if you want to avoid being leveraged. Most retail brokers charge ~10% annual...

You could go the futures route and trade m6e. It's only $1.25 per tick.

In a word. Maybe.

In terms of # ticks or % change?

ES and NQ are about the same with respect to those parameters, and I'd imagine that YM is too.

Isn't that how all the pros do it?

NQ. ES tends to be choppy due to all the algos battling it out and my platform doesn't support YM at the moment.