Quote from UDon'tKnowMe:
To be an exchange member setup or buy a BD. Register it with the exchange and pay the exchange a couple of thousand dollars a month, on top of the cost of maintaining a BD. Or get your series 7 and get registered at a BD that is already a memeber of the exchange. Maverick is right that CBOE members don't need a series 7, however most people don't think that is going to last for much longer because of the merger. So I wouldn't count on using that as a way around having to get a series 7.
this is what i was referring to... sounds like the cboe may not be the answer for long.
oh wait.. thats a conspiracy theory. my bad. LMAOOOOOOOOO