Recent content by rstan

From what I understand of things, the old spread bet business model was to entice novice punters with the prospect of close-to-zero costs of trading, only for those real costs to be hidden by a myriad of techniques and policies that hindered profitable trading - the contemporary equivalent of...

Thanks for the responses. It's possible that DMA might be the appropriate route for me. I satisfy the "assets" requirement, but the "professional client" box may be trickier to tick - although I have a decade+ market experience, this is trading my own account and the full-time management of my...

Some time ago, I traded e-mini futures intraday, moderately successfully, using IB as brokerage & eSignal for charting. I'm considering resurrecting those days, ie. to trade S&P futures, but without the commitment required in terms of exchange fees, data fees, record keeping and tax issues. I'm...