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With regard to prop firm, I haven't come across any that has direct connections to ATD, Citadel, or other market makers like UBS and Wedbush. Most market makers prefer institutional and retail order flows rather than prop flows. Many prop firms however have connections to CrossFinder, Level...

If you want to hook up 4 monitors, make sure your graphic card can handle that. Check AMD and Nvidia websites to be sure about the card you're getting. I believe higher end ATI graphic cards from AMD can handle up to 6 monitors.

Some comments on choosing broker: I had the wrong guess that you were trading with Waterhouse Canada. It's in fact UK. I have seen the Canadian platform, but not the British one. I trade mostly NYSE stocks and execute many times per day. For my purpose, £8.95 would be too expensive. You may want...

You may also want to keep this in mind about IB, as well as other brokers. The following is from winstontj, from another forum. "Mon Oct 18, 10 03:29 PM Interactive Brokers internalizes order flow to a company they own called Timber Hill. Essentially what most retail firms do is set...

Hi DT, I had an earlier thread that was moved to another section. Anyhow, it had a question about volume that perhaps you can answer. In the US, volume executed in ATS such as dark pools are required to be reported to the Trade Reporting Facility (TRF) within 90 seconds. I have seen estimates...

Here's an opinion from another new forum member. It depends on what you are looking to do. If you want to scale in and out for a few hundred shares at a time, then a per share commission basis from IB can be cheaper than the flat rate at Waterhouse. But if you like sending big sized orders in...

Could someone please help me out with these questions? (I'm a new trader who started trading NYSE stocks with a retail broker in the middle of last year.) 1. TRF Volume! Volume executed on alternative trading systems are required to be reported to the Trade Reporting Facility within 90 sec...