Nice link Robert. I know you have posted this before but very good to actually see the financial statements of firms you are about to or have...
Dont worry about that Mav. Don only speaks loosely on the board; when you eventually PM and get on phone he offers 5:1 intraday leverage :). I...
Zenstudent; very good advise. One thing i would add; is go get/buy yourself a good backtesting software (think amibroker, tradestation, NT...
For retail i think IB, Lightspeed are both good for equities. Cant beat TOS for options; IB better from commision perspective but software not...
superficial loss - exactly sounds like wash sale rule here south of the border. And as to the OPs original question, atleast in the US,...
Dont know if you are missing anything but there is no particular edge to these specific aug 16 options. in general, since this news is not...
Good idea gmst; but the worst part is even with the people who do respond with stats, you have no idea how much of that is truth. So ok, say...
nice one :)
yes; Mirus is better than velocity (25 round turns). But i thought about it and closed mirus anyway; i hate their reporting portal at RCG....
Not any more. Most of these brokerages seems like (Mirus and Velocity are the ones i personally know about) are starting to charge for inactivity...
That part i understand. I guess you just went overboard while pumping your firm saying they use feeds from retail accounts :). -gariki
Thats the thing. You cannot use that; cause from what i can tell once i am prop then i need to tell that to all my retail brokerage accounts also...
Once in a while i refer to this list at lightspeed. I figure they keep it somewhat uptodate also.....
Thanks for all the replies folks. Looks like i will just have to close some accounts and consolidate a bit - and eat some of that additional...
So once you become prop do you have to pay professional data fee at all your old non prop accounts also? I have a tos account and currently...
Mav, this Lucias guy is very funny; he was promoting his thread in a reply to one of my prev post and i sure did check him out....
you're welcome. I myself am just expanding into stocks and am loving it. One thing though; both futures and forex give you so much margin that i...
Yes. right. My question was is there a better model - is there something else i should be doing? other than raising capital because its simply not...
Hey Mav, i was reading this post and had another slightly different question for you. Say you are an individual trader with a small edge; say...
hey gmst, i am going to put out an idea to see if someone can come up with anything better. I am doing something similar to you. I have been...
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