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The days I have carried mostly been charged Fed funds rate + 5%

Takion

True for overnights. I mostly do day trading so haven't faced that issue yet

Yeah pretty straightforward rules. You get leverage for stocks and options based on capital put down. You can connect with them directly as I am not sure if it is different for each trader

You can check out Alkaline Capital if you are still looking. Been trading with them for a while and have had a good experience

I trade on Takion platform through a prop firm and there it shows the current Pnl or any other feature like pos size, net etc. required on the chart

AFAIK they do but you will have to confirm with them

Okay here I am able to trade all stocks and etfs listed in US market along with options so hasn't been an issue till now

There are a lot of them in Canada here who allow stock trading. Like I currently trade with Alkaline Capital and they allow both stocks and options trading so you can check with them regarding your requirements

Not sure about what size you are looking at but from a purely execution perspective I find the current prop firm I trade with (Canadian firm Alkaline Capital) extremely good with multiple ecn and darkpool options as I do trade a lot of small caps in large volumes (might not be as large as...

Trade with Canadian firm Alkaline Capital currently

Had been with them for sometime few years back. Company is for sure legit but then realized the terms being offered weren't that great and the platform was clumsy for execution. Their capital requirement used to be high at that point not sure what it is now. With my current prop min. requirement...

If you are ok with another software apart from sterling then you can try the current prop firm I trade with (Alkaline Capital based in Canada) as have had good experience so far. Good Leverage with timely payouts and tiered commission structure. I also trade large volume monthly so worked for me.

There is no black and white ranking here as there are a lot of different kind of models which float around these days claiming to be prop shops. As one of the guys above mentioned, I prefer the first loss funding kind of firms where I put in my capital, get 20-25x leverage for a certain split...

Yup. Basically as an example for $2k put down, they give $50k in buying power (25x)