i have been with coastal for 2 years now. i am friends with one of the partners chris we go back way before coastal. that being said this is what they offer, i use lightspeed for my manual trading and sterling for my auto stuff. they are a cbsx b/d which is good if you dont have your 7. i do have my 7 so it is irrelevent for me. commsissions are competitive, im sure other firms can do better hold brothers comes to mind. they have in house programmers to help traders with no coding skills to accomodate their systems. as far as t3 goes i have no idea what the relationship is. so far so good and too each is own. i agree the website could use some more info. but thats what the contact us button is for.