Recent content by gretrade2

gc1, sorry, my caution note sounded a bit harsh. I did not mean in anyway to pre-judge you and it was addressed in general. :)

Thanks for the replies. Arb, you are right, of course. However if you have a US account you do not necessarily have to wire funds, and even if you do, you wire them once (from US to US) instead of twice (form US to London and then from London to US). Anyway, I am finding that with all this...

OK, I must assume that one or more of the following is true: a) everybody who trades with US brokers is happy to pay our beloved UK banks millions in overseas transfer charges b) nobody really needs to make any tansfer.... I wonder why..... c) I am the only one with this problem. There must be...

Hi I am not sure where I should askt this, so I post it in here.. 99% of my trading relates to US markets and it is in US Dollars. I have various acoounts with brokers (futures and Forex).in the US. To move money around and to withdraw some money it is necessary to have a bank account. My bank...

OK, thank you

Thank you Arbitrageur. I appreciate the explanation, but now you got me a bit confused. First : “any continuous contract that TS do”: does this mean “any US futures contract” or “any US electronic futures contract(those you can access directly through their brokerage arm)”. If I look at their...

Quick and right to the point. Thank you very much, bdholmes gtrd2

Hi all I am considering opening an account with TS. I have heard lots of terrible stories regarding their brokerage service side. However, I thought that if I divert some of my easy, slower, futures trades (10 round trips a month) I could have a nice platform virtually for free. Now, I have...