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I agree save up and practice until you have enough, Futures may be an option. I live in Asia and have had several accounts in the USA, Tradestation, AMP, IB, Cannon, TOS all come to mind. Deepdiscounttrading.com is another.

PL has treated me very well until I moved brokers, then my slippage started looking like my first message. Before I would slip maybe $10 or $15 per contract but as you can see it has gone really sideways turning a winning system into a much less reliable strategy. Since there is no fixing this I...

Too all, I was multitasking one to many things and you are all right, I mistyped, not .75, ES is .25. I apologize. So the slippage from trading PL is volume, to thin? It still seemed excessive to me.

I have retired and moved the Philippines, I trade the Asian and Europe sessions. I assume that has some impact?

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When trading emini S&P500 I average .75 slippage which is much better but still seems high to me. JY treats me best. PL is indeed thin but my strategy I developed for ES works much better with PL so until that changes I have to milk it but my slippage is pretty rough across the board. Thanks...

Being fairly new to futures I am noticing huge slippage as compared to trading equities when using stop losses. After looking at the tape it seems odd to me the amount of orders and size of spread from stop loss to market order execution. Here is an example of my last trade. Short PL Stop loss...

Thanks, I thought they crossed for best bid/time, this clears things up. I retired in the Philippines and have been trading the Philippine exchange where they have one ECN, its like fish in a barrel, I guess I am the fish now.

Thanks for the replies. Here is a copy of the time and sales, my limit order was placed at 10:04 and the same number of shares showed on DOM. As you can see in the T&S many orders filled ahead of mine at 7.82 or it appears that way.

How can a limit order be placed with X number of shares on the DOM and have all the orders filled plus say 5 or 6 thousand more orders filled before the price moves upward without your order being filled? limit orders being placed on active trader pro via smart routing seem to just sit and sit...