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def apart from wholly owned subsidaries - who does that?

maximum leverage - is the amount that a trader might choose to use at anyone time - it is not a set figure so as examples maximum leverage before any known news which could move the markets substantially should be zero and on a day when there has been only good news and the futures...

def surely the points you mentioned relate to clearers, not IBs?

Pssst What platform are you using now?

using maximum leverage is how you make money - using it badly is how you lose money

paying more will not get you more timely quotes - if you use cqg - you have a better chance - since to date they concentrate mostly on futures - so less data clogging everyhting up - and as they are used by most professionals - at least what you are looking at is the same as a lot of others -...

having a delay in quotes can make a major difference - depending on your trading style - but for instance, you could end up going long or short based on the product having held a key support or resistance level, when in fact just before you took the trade, the level had been broken

cartm you can go directly to some of the clearers who are higher profile in the retail world ( they are also a lot of other clearers that will only deal with a professional trading thousands of contracts) you may also find that the introducing broker you are dealing with is a wholly owned...

!) try paper trading. Be disciplined about it. Don't mentally paper trade! Write down the price that you bought, but only when that is the current price. Don't pretend, retrospectively, that you bought at such and such a price before. That is useless! Same thing for the selling, shorting, etc...

rt you sound like a trader looking to make money out of broking - but 15K is peanuts, 5K is just a few peanuts less - you should be looking for 100K against trading M's iif you really want the big business

Real Trader forget tit fot tat you need some more input to get your logic right its the balance of skill of trader, leverage and account size which is going to protect you from an adverse move taking the trader out and possibly causing a non recoverable debit for you you have also...

voltrader so, do you know the business models and bottom lines of clearers/brokers just because other countries have stupid systems - does not mean a broker in a country with a good system should not be hit on to get them to charge less if professional traders had to pay retail rates -...

i was querying your point about rookie traders in the earlier comment - your business model is for you to decide

its the leverage used in conjunction with the liquid cash available that would screw a crap trader - not the amount used to open the account! hence the saying that the easiest way to make a one million is to start with two

independent professionals are charged whatever they are able to negotiate based a) their negotiating skills b) the volume they do and c) contacts they have

My point is that there seems to be a feeling that IBs commisions are cheap - and by extension - they offer a cut down service I suspect the problem is that they are getting a lot of business and their technical infrastrucuture and expertise is always behind the curve The fact is that they...

Most futures professionals use CQG - esignal is only for retail although at various times - one or more of the data supply compnaies may have an edge in one area - which might cause traders to take the system until the edge is lost and most professionals have much simpler setups than the...

IBs commisons are not cheap - as far as i am concerned they are very expensive - but they are way cheaper than anyone else. They do not have to rip off their customers in anyway to sustain their charges, as they are also the clearers and they do not have introducing brokers - and therefore get...

cartm i still dont get it - if u dont day trade - you are apperar to be someone who is happy to let your position run regardless of market moves - and if you dont daytrade - you musn't be watching the markets all the time - so by extension - you won't be around to see the very things that...

sammybea the point of a direct conncection is not the amount of data you can pump through the connection - the important point is that is the most direct connection to the exchange - and so is not affected by the internet parameters and if you have a direct connection - you should only...