Recent content by nymsmith1979

why not take your $7500 and trade it at assent or another firm that lets you put up 5k, gives you the buying power, and you either make money or you don't. you will end up splitting your profits with them, probably 75% for you, 25% for them. if you have to get a series 7, no big deal, in fact it...

jmj, the platform does have problems at extremely fast times. it does run very thin on the computer as long as you don't have too many lightspeed charts open. i now have 12 tick charts and it is using about 40% of my computer memory. the reason i want to switch to IB is trading odd lot...

i have been using lightspeed for a year and like it. i use to trade with assent, but after they closed our office, they wanted $100/month to trade remote. there is no fee with lightspeed. the only thing i do not like about lightspeed is that they do not have "one cancel other" orders. example...