Quote from truehawk:
Could be sour grapes BlackJack.
It is illegal for Americans to spread bet and Stock accounts must be kept above 25K$ in order to be allowed to do more than 5 trades a week.
Things get complicated when we are trying to buy or sell small lots of stocks and options(transaction fees).
In stocks, even small lots can cost big money. Options may be strangely illiquid at times.
The rules are different from one exchange to another and they keep changing, so it is more difficult for us to arrange things to pop in and out.
I don't know as much as I would like about the current rules, and I dearly wish we could just spread bet and let the bookie take care of dealing with the exchanges when he lays off the bet.