Quote from ksonsinc:
I went to your office it is preety decent small office
saw pll trading
they are located in midtown manhattan
they offered me 0.0059 to start out with and later they will take care of the rates as i do volume.
but i was still looking around if there is any better deal out there
they take %10 of your profit and they give you a 1099 end of the year
The tax implications with a 1099 are more complicated than getting k-1. I am not sure what they (for 1099) exactly are, but I would learn all I could about 1099 trading income and how to treat it, remember that you ahve to pay double self-employment tax and fica (the part that your employer would normally pay, you pay it twice).
Its cool that you don't need a license, however, weight the two months it would take to get it, and not pay the 10%, in the LONG TERM.
Having said that, I bet every single number (payout, leverage, fees) is completely negotiable, when you are profitable, the firm knows the risk of you using their capital.
The problem with this is, what profitable trader would give them 10% of the profits, when the trader assumes all of the risk. If they tell you the leverage is a risk, thats a bunch of crap, because they monitor the stuff tick by tick, especially for a new account. They have the ability to add BP or cut you off with a few keystrokes.
So my take on HLV is that mostly non profitable traders trade there. It takes a long long time to build an account when you are paying commissions, getting only 10:1, and then getting lubed and filled on the back end by them taking 10%.
If you have record of profit, then tell them to forget taking 10%, unless they reduce their fees in other areas.
Okay...again my super opinionated 2 cents.