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Yes and no. Yes, before you get a PM regulatory call (they are only at end of day), you can reduce risk by hedging. However, most clearing brokers require that if you get a PM call from trading, that you meet that call with cash. If you get the PM call from an adverse move in the stock, but not...

We are Introducing Brokers to Merrill Lynch Professional, Wedbush Securities, IB and Wedbush Futures. In general, we only use IB for LVX. We are not self-clearing. Most of our accounts clear and custody at Wedbush. They handle clearing, custody, lending etc, and we handle all routing, platforms...

There must be a reason it was rejected that is not criminal or in appropriate.

Why was the order rejected?

No. Only equities/index options. http://www.livevol.com/online-options-trading-software

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Yes, but in his example, if the "stock declines 50%", PM only shocks +|- 15%. He might get a call.

In what way? If he losing money and his account drops below a certain level, he would get a call.

What do you you use it for?

Regulatory calls from trading typically have to be met with cash. You should ask your broker. If you lose money, does it matter if it from the stock or the hedge? You still need a minimum amount of capital to protect against losses from the entire position.

No. If your mark to market equity drops below the maintenance requirement, you get a call.

IMO, placing more than $50k in a commingled prop firm "concerns" me. I joined one in 2010 with $150k and left after the mandatory 12 months and just missed the firm having financial problems. They closed down shortly after. No one had their cash taken, but some traders we made to liquidate...

In general, there are two types of hedge funds, from a funding level. Those that require you to be QEP and those that don't. The ones that do, typically ask for $500k or more and the ones that don't have minimums of as low as $100k. We follow a number of hedge funds, fund of funds, RIAs and CTAs.

How do you know what you're expectancy is? You need a process to place odds on a win/loss and the value of that win/loss. There might be value the way you are doing, I just don't see it.

I'm not an active trader anymore. I provide a service. In addition, the company I work for owns Lightspeed Trader, Sterling Trader Pro and Green Trader (Risk/Margin). I think you are going about it the right way by looking for an need 1st, rather than saying this would be cool if I built this...

I would not use that process. I would keep track of daily and monthly returns (Profit or loss)/capital. Also keep track of winning vs losing days and months. Then you can simply calculate different metrics like average monthly returns, STD of those returns, Sharpe, Sortino, Correlation to the...

If you are asking me, I would only do that to share technology, not to save on rates. I don't like commingling my capital. But, if they can offer me software I can get on my own, that might tempt me.

Ironbeam is an FCM, but with very little capital, under $5mm.

We offer Realtick with API: https://emsportal.ezesoft.com/download.aspx?sidenav=rtapi https://www.lightspeed.com/trading-platforms/realtick-pro-and-express/realtick-platform-features/ Not sure what you men by " No messing with Windows, Wine, etc.".

I have a futures account at Wedbush with a master/sub structure which I have allocated toward 4 CTAs that each trade in their own sub account. I see all trades the next day from post trade allocation, not live. The ES day-trader has a notional $100k allocation has trades between 1 and 5 ES...