Recent content by cwebbwash

Re: stop losses In the futures markets, nothing is guaranteed--including stop losses.

low rates and good service The proprietary trading group, VTrader Group LLC, has a customer brokerage called VTFutures. They charge $3.90 round turn for e-mini S&P with $500/mo software fee (choice of X_Trader, Ffastfill, GL Trade) both of these fees are lower with volume. If you DON'T want to...

free X_Trader one more thing. Velocity Futures is offering X_Trader with no monthly fee with $5.90 rt all in commissions

Re: Platforms and Global Futures Never used IB. Ffastfill is good but takes too long to load and has too many hardware demands. I use X_Trader but it is expensive and only for high volume traders trading more than 600 contracts per month. X_Trader's supremecy is evidenced by their institutional...

Global Futures don't post their commission rates because they will try and charge you as much as they can. They say that their rates are based on account size and volume, but I know of previous customers who were being charged more than others who had less volume and less money with them.