Quote from joeyata1:
yes when i said pretty much anyone can get .002 with genesis i'm talking about doing 15-20k a day vol which is small. but remember genesis has a $200 amonth software fee and they charge another .0005 per order for nyse. also i should have quanified that and said with bigger prop firms like assent,bright and echo you're not getting under .003 unless you're doing some good vol and rarely ever seen .002 with these big prop firms so if you're trading nyse its .0025 per share. for 300k or more vol ib is .002 with no software fee or nyse fee so ib for little or no vol is a great deal. the problem with ib there trading platform is very cumbersome trading big vol as for limit orders you msut have many lines under each quote which is tough. anyone trading naz taking liquidity the .005 all in no sec fee is a great rate and beats a straight .0025 plus or minus ecn's for a liquidity taker
so you are saying that for NYSE doing 15-20k a day you are paying 0.0025 +200 software fee, at Genesis? you can't get anywhere close to 0.003 at Bright no matter what kind of volume you do.