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trade futures retail with a pro firm like advantage that caters ONLY to independent traders (mostly ex cbot floor traders) and youll get RTs in the 1$ range. Futures offer natural leverage so you dont need to have more than 30-50k in your account at any given point to be able to trade 30-50...

Hydroblunt made an excellent point about central banks not being the sole liquidity providers these days. Markets are truly globalized and the tight credit spreads (proxy for liquidity) you see today are partly a result of the FED raising rates in the past two years. The FED has tried to temper...

MOMO, You have zero clue as to what was going on and I dont expect you to since you were never a trader in the Miami branch, just dont tarnish your stellar reputation on ET for one thread by using words like "behoove" and "whiney" together in the same post, you sound like a half wit deuce...

I completely agree with you on the vacationers trading through Miami for a temporary period, but your original answer was misleading and didnt answer the question of this thread. The London/Chicago traders composed the minority of the aggregate volume traded through Miami during the...

The quantity of mindless hearsay on this board has reached new all time highs. I dont even know why this is a topic of discussion but to clear the record, Speaking as a refco miami trader, yes, some went to a local hedge fund, none were from london, and the rest either setup shop on their own...

This thread has really lost track of the original question.... "Does it help to work in NYC ?" As a trader who has traded professionally both in Florida and NYC, I can say it definitely depends on your style of trading and experience. If you know exactly what you're doing , then no, theres...

GHCO pulled the plug on the miami office, setup for ex refco traders, months ago.