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It would be interesting indeed if one of these shops upped their game to sponsor "funded traders" into getting their license to become actual proprietary traders. Might be a nice competitive advantage, too.

I wouldn't go that far. They certainly charge a lot for sim trading under the promise of funding, under rules which rookies probably underestimate, but their rules are clear upfront and anyone with a calculator can figure out if it's worth it for them. Some of them like Apiary are mostly in it...

Hi all! I just received a mass e-mail from Elite about ActualTraders, but I didn't see a thread about them yet, nor a sponsor link at the bottom. I assume they are a brand new sponsor here. As for what they offer, they seem to be more or less the Forex equivalent of TopstepTrader: TST offers...

When you give that dollar bill to someone else, there aren't a hundred servers computing confirmations for that transaction. The bothersome energy cost is frictional, not initial.

Whoa, you're right! I could've sworn I saw a Toronto address there in the past. Checking archive.org, they used to mention "division of T3 Trading Group LLC" which they no longer mention, and an address in Bloomfield Hills, MI, US citizens only. I must've been thinking of another shop with a...

There are reportedly 1000 spots in one of his two live services, which is... $179 + $350 = $529 per month. So at capacity, that's already worth $6M/year. Plus the other one (priced the same), plus mentoring which is $25K for him (yearly?) or Shane for $15K. So, millions/year for sure...

Forgot to address that bit: while he is indeed a vendor, he's been registered as a commodity trading advisor for a couple of decades, so I would assume that he has a pretty extensive verifiable track record. Pretty sure there'd be legal consequences to lie about trades taken. (That said, I...

Omar?

What about Questrade then? They give us access to the US markets and according to http://www.questrade.com/account/fund the minimum opening balance is just $1000.

That is absolutely correct, and on purpose. In one of his I.B. webinars, he answered a question specifically on that. If I can paraphrase: "I prefer to focus my sharing on the few home runs that worked well, than on all of those boring ones which got stopped out uneventfully." You either...

DB didn't draw me here, but his threads got me to start participating actively. When I first joined, we had some fascinating discussions about Wyckoff's principles for a while. Heck, marketsurfer also contributed enriching counterpoints at times, such as references to solid research on noise...

What a well-crafted counter argument. Anyway, this reaction makes me curious: where do you draw the line between speculation on a Picasso painting, and price gouging on a life-saving product (i.e. Martin Shkreli)? Do you make a distinction between the two or should there, in your view, be no...

Some speculation is destructive; they're not all equal. I can see that point of view, but in my experience buying up domain names in bulk ahead of legitimate people and businesses, pricing them out of their reach is a systemic problem, not harmless speculation. Not only do they not add any...

So swiftly. They forced me out of my own full name until after years of waiting they finally slipped and I jumped on it. Still can't get my last name. They also are preventing me from buying back a domain I used to have in 1995-1999. Little did I know back then how much 3-letter domains in...

How rude and inappropriate. Not to mention, people don't get rich by throwing money away. Heating can cost 5% of one's income in Canada, nothing trivial about it.

Demolition Man. I don't know how to use the three shells, though. Damn they're packed tightly... Attempting just that in the coming years, Class A motor-home, Cradlepoint enterprise-grade Wi-Fi/cellular router. (Too bad I started out by getting screwed on hidden delamination and mold. Like...

With an office actually in Canada, I can only think of OANDA. "Proper" brokers like Interactive Brokers cannot offer CFDs to Canadians. That said, don't expect very tight spreads except in the busiest hours of the day. Note that because CFDs are traded against the broker itself, volume is...

...and you pay US$85/month per futures marketplace like at TopStep? For me personally at Interactive Brokers Canada, access to live futures data is an order of magnitude cheaper.

So very important. I couldn't even get the login window to display properly with OpenJDK, and had massive memory leaks if I dared to touch charting at all. I was surprised to find TWS to be actually usable when I switched to Oracle's VM. ;) Me too, saving on server helps a lot, especially...

If they're new but looking for self management still, I'm an I.B. user myself but I heard good things about Questrade: http://www.questrade.com/account/account_types/registered/tfsa