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"Plenty of firms already do this. They hold your money as a deposit and label you as a proprietary trader. When you lose money, it comes out of your deposit. Essentially you are trading your money. In most cases the firm also tries to take a cut of your profits, over-charge commissions, and put...

I think what would answer everyone's question is: Does anyone know of any professional trader who has gone back to trading a non-leveraged, non-professional account? I don't know of anyone who has done that. I make on average $30K a month trading professionally, I honestly don't know if I...

A response for js1257 and Tharp I also highly recommend going professional. You will never have to worry about a margin call ever again. I studied for the Series 7 for just over a week and passed with an 84. (It takes a score of better than 70 to pass). My trading has improved tenfold...

Sniper- I am intimately familiar with all of the current software packages as I have been involved in the development and code writing of some of them. I also research all of them and try to use as many as possible to help me in my own development efforts. I currently maintain multiple...

VTS is a very good execution platform, and as I have been on it for over a year I have noticed that it continually improves and is a lot different than it was a few years ago. The main advantage and/or disadvantage with the platform is dependent on what firm you are with. VTS actually...