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There was somewhat interesting thread about this here: Why 7% is the Difference between Failure and Success in Trading - Psychology and Money Management

I found some pretty good reading for beginners. http://www.trade2win.com/boards/attachments/first-steps/125852d1323261503-how-resolve-unknowable-uncertainty-survivingdaytrading.pdf While I haven't advanced beyond demos, my approach is to first have basic knowledge of all timeframe activity...

Doesn't really apply to your US specific question but certain well known swiss broker/bank has following statement on their site. You could mention this to your broker and ask them to look into it and putting up some similar FAQ/procedure statement about such scenario. In case of dormancy...

(for small retail sums) I still haven't started trading but having done 3 months of research last year, the ones that are still on my short list were Dukascopy, Oanda. FinFx looks also plausible. The problem I have with each is that when I demoed them, all had glitches in the tick data. To me...