futures is only $1/side. the cost to brokers is very cheap in the exchange with seat. even at $5/trade the broker is still making profit. the $15/trade are full service brokers. and clients who don't trade often.
anyone can be a broker with less than 1 million dollar investment and buy a seat. brokers cannot even sell their seats,, nobody wants it. no profit anymore with deep discount futures brokers. you either have to have lots of 'volume' or charge like $100 trades for rich institutional clients to bother with buying a seat.
anyone can be a broker with less than 1 million dollar investment and buy a seat. brokers cannot even sell their seats,, nobody wants it. no profit anymore with deep discount futures brokers. you either have to have lots of 'volume' or charge like $100 trades for rich institutional clients to bother with buying a seat.