Traders' Roundtable

With VTrader Group (see my post "professional brokerage w/ low rates and good service"), if you are willing to join their proprietary group as a remote trader, you can trade equities and futures from one account and even one platform if you wish. As a member of the group, the company can e...

If your trade is placed in the same month, they will offset each other. One reason you may want to do this is if you executed to open a position on the electronic session and that exchange went down, you can offset in the pit without being stuck with the position.

VTrader Group LLC, the proprietary trading co., has a customer brokerage called VTFutures. Their rate for mini S&P (for example) is $3.90 round turn plus $500/mo for execution software (choice of X_Trader, Ffastfill, GL Trade) both fees are lower with volume. For those who do NOT want to pay a m...