Originally posted by metooxx
Craigross,
I looked it up on CME website. Here is the link:
http://www.cme.com/risk_management/clearing_house/fees.cfm
What are you talking about? We trade 1,000 to 10,000 contracts a day, if those are your fees send me a PM and we can talk. If you lease a seat you can get into the numbers you are saying, otherwise what are you talking about.
Originally posted by Cdntrader
metooxx,
I see from that previous thread that you pay $2.64 r/t.
Do you actually have to become an employee/ owner of the clearing firm to get this rate? or are you leasing a seat? if so is the leasing fee built in to $2.64? What kind of minimum numbers justify that kind of setup in your opinion?
Thanks.
Originally posted by metooxx
No, you don't need to be an employee or owner of a clearing firm, just a lot of volume.
We are not leasing a seat, if we were, we would be paying $1.40 less a RT. We reconsider leasing a seat on a monthly basis, the $4,000 a month or so lease payment would be offset in a day or so for us, however, it would force us into "professional status", which would be detrimental to our trading in other markets. As soon as they change some of the regulations we obviously will be doing that.
If you want to talk specifically about who or where, send me your phone number and we can talk.
Originally posted by metooxx
Neither of them, but you got the right idea. We are a private trading company.