Bright now accepting Series 56

Hafez, that isn't true. There are many different clearing situations and there is an old saying that goes "you get what you pay for". Don uses GS, who provides a lot of value as does his firm in ways professional need. WTS has dirt cheap commissions but you pay for it in other ways like poor customer service. Often, it's a lot more than just commission rates to the equation.
 
evo I got great customer service and in over 1/2 a decade of trading with this outfit I've never had a problem and saved millions of dollars in commissions over bright so tell me were I have gone wrong. I Know bright clears gs and there the greatest and can short a stk here and there I can't and can probably do some sophisticated combo margin trades I can't but the bottom line is my bank account is millions of dollars fatter than if I had been using bright and that's what counts in the end. as I recall wts has all kinds of bs fees were I have none. to each his on but there are great firms out there much cheaper than bright and would save many people huge money
 
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what dons not telling people is clearing commissions is so cheap its incredible. Most people don't know this but brokers pay a flat fee per stock symbol to clearing houses. Like yesterday I traded 250k of fb stock. I pay $1.50 /thousand and have 50-1 buying power. I have 4 accounts and 3 are retail and this one is for daytrading. so I leave 50k in there and can buy up to $2.5 mil of stock. I pull my profits out weekly and been with this firm 7 yrs I can hold 10-1 overnight but rarely do. So in the example above the firm might have paid $3-$5 total for my 250k of fb were I paid $1.50/thousand or $375 so they make a killing. Now if traded 100k shares a day and 100 different stks then they lose but that rarely if every happens. since 99% of traders are flat by days end then its just a computer program that tabulates everything and it costs little

This is only true of the a few of the "secondary" type firms (the rebate traders who tell you what stocks to trade for example).

We pay for every share traded.

All the best,

Don
 
Quote from DT3:

Who do you trade with that's allowing 10:1 overnights?

We allow 30 to one for hedged positions overnight, and our traders seem to love it.

Don
 
What does a hedged position mean exactly? If I'm long $50k worth of FB I have to be short $50k worth of SPY? Can you give an example along with the fees for holding over night. Thanks
 
Quote from DT3:

What does a hedged position mean exactly? If I'm long $50k worth of FB I have to be short $50k worth of SPY? Can you give an example along with the fees for holding over night. Thanks


You call that a hedge?
 
Quote from Lucrum:

Don is selling shoes now?

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Al Bundy.....shoe salesman. :)
 
Given the circumstances I won't be surprised if in a few years prop firms stop accepting S7...




Quote from Don Bright:

Well well well, it seems that the Exchange has now approved the 56 for our traders. So, the traders that had to take the S7 after taking the S56.

I know I spoke for taking the 7, which is good everywhere, the last couple of years, but since these exams really don't reflect a traders ability, I'm good with it now.

All the best,

Don
 
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