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The reason that equities are preferred over futures in North America is because traders can take advantage of the inefficiencies created in the equity markets. You have no execution advantage when trading futures and have to rely mostly on technicals. This makes it much harder to have a...

I realize that it’s a different environment over there and it’s harder to find an “edge”, but some people that I have talked to recently, seem to think that the LSE is the tough market and that there are much better opportunities on the Frankfurt and Stockholm Stock...

I appreciate the insight Don. I guess you guys don't do much over there then. So you think a couple of "years" for the Euronext to be good enough for daytrading? Hopefully the merger with the NYSE will speed things up.

Do you think that the european "old school" mentality is the reason that they have not "got with the times" to provide easier access to the little guy. Higher exchange fees and reporting requirements will definetly keep the daytraders out of there markets. I just find it odd, that if a North...

I believe the stamp tax is only an issue if you are trading for a firm that is not a member of the LSE, but I could be wrong.

I know that a bit about the LSE, but does anyone know about trading equities in the other european markets or does everyone pretty much just daytrade futures.

The proprietary daytrading environment in Europe seems to be most derivatives and currencies, instead of equities like it is here in North America. I was wondering if there are traders out there that can shed some light on this topic from the view of a high frequency daytrader, not swing...

Trading at Swift is what you make of it. It is just unfortunate that it gets a bad name because most of it's traders have little to no experience, which over shadows the fact that they still have a bunch of talented traders. I know a lot of very successful traders out there who got their start...

Titan Securities might not be the nicest office in town cosmetically, but it's a good environment. Environment is more then expensive paintings on the wall and if you take one look at the P&L on the traders screens, you would see why the traders far from depressed. I'm bias because I work there...

With no experience and no training, then Swift is probably your best option. I don't know of any other firms out there that will let you start trading without risking any money yourself. Probably about 90% of the people that try prop-trading, are "NOT" successful at it. That's just the reality...

With the NYSE going to a Hybrid market in the near future, I was just wondering what peoples opinions' were on how it will effect day trading and how much the specialist will play a roll? Please keep in mind this is from the perspective of proprietary daytraders? Do you like the idea?

I work at a place called Titan Securities in Toronto. We have a lot of ex-Swift guys here. www.titansecurities.ca/

Here is the website - www.titansecurities.ca/