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opt789, Thanks for your advice. I guess as a retail trader 20:1 leverage is not available. At least would need to setup some sort of deal with a fund or firm and trade under their prime account as suggested by Scorpion. Don, If a guy walk up to to you and say he wants to use your firm...

It never occured to me that I can actually negotiate for higher leverage. I thought it's all cast in stone (you know reg T ...etc). I use IB for my futures trading and it seems they're not the negotiable type and I never thought there are firms out there would do do extra leverage. Thanks...

Is there any other way to get higher than a 4:1 retail leverage on stocks other than working with a prop firm? I'm a retail trader who trades exclusively futures and now wants to get into stocks. At the moment I'm in an embarassing situation that I'm not short on capital and yet I still have...

Thanks for the replies. I'm new to stocks and never have any experience with prop firms so I have a lot of beginner's questions to ask. Please bear with me. I've heard that there are firms that would give 100% payout and commission is as low as .02 for high volume. That makes me wonder how...

Hi, I wonder if there is any brokers that would let me trade stocks with comparable leverage as trading futures (ie. 20:1 as in a 5% deposite margin in future contracts). I've looked into portfolio margining but it seems to me 20:1 is not quite possible. Or is it? Is prop the only way to...