[astralmarket]

If you have traded eminis for few years, can you list the best and the worst of platforms and also their providing brokers.

Also the brokers that offer self directed trading with low intra day margins. Most good ones offer 500 to 7000$.

I have tested many online web based and PC installed platforms for day trading futures. I notice that web only platforms are merely to fill orders and they are literally useless for by the time you executed its time to exec another order.
The PC based platforms seem to be the most nimble and fast.
i would love to hear any real experiences with the best of your platforms.

To succeed in any futures trading specially the intra day, an efficient platform and a competitive broker is a must.

[astralmarket]

I mean to say 500 to 1000 as intra day margins for people with less than 25k accounts

I think besides fair trading costs as fees, fair intra day margins the most important is to execute the trades and for that we need a real good trading platform.

For options and stocks any platform can work but for futures and specially day trading one needs a really nimble platform that can work with few clicks.
I would love to hear your experiences cos there are only few thousand futures traders left.

Over 90% of futures traders start with great excitement but most lose their account value soon, unfortunately.

[Tams]

Originally Posted by astralmarket »

I mean to say 500 to 1000 as intra day margins for people with less than 25k accounts

I think besides fair trading costs as fees, fair intra day margins the most important is to execute the trades and for that we need a real good trading platform.

For options and stocks any platform can work but for futures and specially day trading one needs a really nimble platform that can work with few clicks.
I would love to hear your experiences cos there are only few thousand futures traders left.

Over 90% of futures traders start with great excitement but most lose their account value soon, unfortunately.

there is no such a thing as "fair intra day margin".

[astralmarket]

Tams I know that

I mean fair is quite fair if a broker allows you 1000 $ margin for a 6k contract. Obviously it is monitored and only worthy for real good traders. It can ruin any inexperienced traders for over trading.

[Tams]

Originally Posted by astralmarket »

Tams I know that

I mean fair is quite fair if a broker allows you 1000 $ margin for a 6k contract. Obviously it is monitored and only worthy for real good traders. It can ruin any inexperienced traders for over trading.

if you can't afford overnight margin, you shouldn't trade at all.
if you can trade, you can afford overnight margin.
not everybody can see this logic.

[brownsfan019]

I use Open ECry. Margins are listed here and updated. I think the margins are fair.

[gosu]

Originally Posted by brownsfan019 »

I use Open ECry. Margins are listed here and updated. I think the margins are fair.

$500 intraday for index futures...yeah I'd say that's more than fair.