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By Ninjatrader_Staff
Now is the Time to SAVE Even More with NinjaTrader!
Open a new Futures account by August 31st and receive up to $200 in commission rebates.
Simply fund your account with the account minimum of $400 and start trading. You will receive a rebate back on all future trades placed prior to October 31st.
OPEN ACCOUNT
Why Trade Futures with NinjaTrader?
FREE Platform included with brokerage account Clear savings through discount commissions Low day trading margins including only $50 for Micros 1000s of Apps & Add-Ons to personalize your platform
Questions?
Contact us at 1.800.496.1683 or brokeragesales@ninjatrader.com. *Commission Rebate Requirements:
Account must be opened & funded in August 2021 with $400 minimum Trades must be executed on or before October 31st, 2021 Commission rebates will be applied to the account holder's balance monthly as a credit up to $0.25 per contract if charged commission exceeds $0.25 per contract or equaling the value of the commission charged if under $0.25 per contract Standard exchange, NFA and routing fees still apply Existing NinjaTrader Brokerage account holders are not eligible for this promotion
Futures, foreign currency and options trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing ones financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. View Full Risk Disclosure.
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By Ninjatrader_Staff
Open a new futures brokerage account by February 28th with a NinjaTrader Lifetime license & receive:
Commission-Free Micro trading in March $50 margins on Micros Access to the most powerful version of NinjaTrader Free platform upgrades for life!
Simply open & fund your new account in February with as little as $400 & purchase a Lifetime license. You will then receive a rebate for commissions on all Micro futures trades placed from March 1st – March 31st.* Open Futures Account
A NinjaTrader Lifetime license provide access to all premium features including Chart Trader, OCO orders, Order Flow +, and more.
* Program Requirements:
Account must be funded by February 28th, 2021 with $400 minimum A new NinjaTrader Lifetime license ($1099) must be purchased by February 28th, 2021 Standard exchange, NFA and routing fees still apply A commission rebate will be applied to the account holder’s balance for all March Micro trades 2nd accounts for current NinjaTrader Brokerage account owners not eligible for rebates
Futures and Forex trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or life style. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. View Full Risk Disclosure. -
By Ninjatrader_Staff
There has never been a better time to start trading futures with NinjaTrader!
Open a new Futures account by October 31st and receive up to $200 in commission rebates. Simply fund your account with the account minimum of $400 and start trading! You’ll receive a rebate back on all future trades placed for the remainder of 2020!
LEARN MORE
Why Trade Futures with NinjaTrader?
FREE Platform included with brokerage account Clear savings through discount commissions Low day trading margins including only $50 for Micros 1000s of Apps & Add-Ons to personalize your platform
Questions? Contact us at 1.800.496.1683 or brokeragesales@ninjatrader.com.
Commission Rebate Requirements:
Account must be opened & funded in October 2020 with $400 minimum Trades must be executed on or before December 31st, 2020 Commission rebates will be applied to the account holder’s balance monthly as a credit up to $0.25 per contract if charged commission exceeds $0.25 per contract or equaling the value of the commission charged if under $0.25 per contract Standard exchange, NFA and routing fees still apply Existing NinjaTrader Brokerage account holders are not eligible for this promotion
Futures and Forex trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or life style. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. View Full Risk Disclosure. -
By Ninjatrader_Staff
Open a new NinjaTrader Brokerage account by June 30th and SAVE on a Lifetime license with a discounted price of only $999!
Along with access to the most powerful version of NinjaTrader, you will save even more with deep discount commissions at $.09 per Micro futures contract & only $50 margins.
Your Lifetime license includes ALL of NinjaTrader’s premium features:
Award-winning order entry including Chart Trader & OCO orders Order Flow + tool set featuring the Volume Profile Indicator – NinjaTrader’s most powerful indicator to date ATM Strategies, advanced Alerting system, auto-close positions for additional risk management & more
PLUS all future NinjaTrader platform enhancements are included at no additional charge – for life! Simply fund your new account with the minimum of $400 by June 30th to lock in your savings.
Questions?
Contact us at 312.262.1289 or brokeragesales@ninjatrader.com.
Platform License Discount Requirements:
Account must be opened & funded in June 2020 with $400 minimum Discount is applicable to software purchase only 2nd accounts for current NinjaTrader Brokerage account owners are not eligible for platform discounts
Futures and Forex trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing ones financial security or life style. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. View Full Risk Disclosure. -
By Ninjatrader_Staff
Open a new futures brokerage account by April 30th with a NinjaTrader Lifetime license & receive:
Commission-Free Micro trading in May $50 margins on Micros Access to the most powerful version of NinjaTrader Free platform upgrades for life!
Simply open & fund your new account in April with as little as $400 & purchase a Lifetime license. You will then receive a rebate for commissions on all Micro futures trades placed from May 1 – May 31st.* Open Futures Account
A NinjaTrader Lifetime license provide access to all premium features including Chart Trader, OCO orders, Order Flow +, and more.
*Program Requirements:
Account must be funded by April 30th, 2020 with $400 minimum A new NinjaTrader Lifetime license ($1099) must be purchased by April 30th, 2020 Standard exchange, NFA and routing fees still apply A commission rebate will be applied to the account holder’s balance for all May Micro trades 2nd accounts for current NinjaTrader Brokerage account owners not eligible for rebates
Futures and Forex trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing ones financial security or life style. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. View Full Risk Disclosure.
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I have recently switched from trading forex to trading futures due to the futures market's unbiased order execution and superior price movement. And yes, I trade commodities in the COMEX exchange. Years ago, hefty initial capital requirements were a burden for retail traders. Then Mini futures were created, but they were still somewhat burdensome. Then Micro futures were created. Now, you can daytrade with only a few hundred dollars (generally 9:30 a.m. E.T. to 4:00 p.m. E.T.). Even so, I recommend starting with a couple thousand in order to sustain statistical losses and/or hold positions overnight. If you have access to U.S. CME products (you're not in a U.S. sanctioned country), I suggest trading in the actual centralized commodity futures exchange because: Orders are required to be executed in the sequence of arrival to the COMEX exchange. In contrast, CFD's (contracts for difference) are in-house contracts between you and your CFD dealer. In CFD trading, your execution is reliant upon the size of your individual dealer's liquidity pool, and its institutional liquidity providers if it has any. Retail CFD orders, and retail forex orders, generally get prioritized by the dealer depending on order quantity. This is why retail CFD orders get hit or miss execution. In this way, the COMEX exchange is much fairer to retail traders. COMEX provides centralized pricing. In contrast, CFD dealers have no centralized exchange providing objective pricing. This is why CFD's tend to spike randomly. Unless your goal is to somehow exploit these random CFD spikes, they're likely to take out your stops where the alleged "underlying asset" (there isn't one) wouldn't have done so. To me, a CFD dealer follows an in-house casino model, whereas COMEX is an actual market. U.S. futures are not subject to the pattern-day-trader rule which states that anyone placing more than 3 equities, equities ETF's, or equities options trades per week is a pattern-day-trader. This means that you need at least $25,000 of initial capital, and SEC reporting is required. If you have formed your own single funded private company (LLC, etc.) specifically for speculative trading purposes, the SEC deems you a professional but the CME and its COMEX subsidiary do not. If you sign an attestation regarding your own single-funding, you get non-professional discounts on data and commissions. While CFD, equity, ETF, and options third-party liquidity providers (banks and hedge funds) get paid every time they take the other side of your trade, futures traders are generally dealing directly with a greater centralized exchange. In short, the real futures market ain't as burdensome as it used to be and is more of a level playing field for retail traders. And oh yeah... my broker is TradeStation Securities. No complaints.
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"[F]ull-service investment banks usually provide both advisory and financing banking services, as well as sales, market making, and research on a broad array of financial products, including equities, credit, rates, currency, commodities, and their derivatives" (List of investment banks - Wikipedia). IMHO, there's nothing super special about "professional" traders except for the fact that they have access to boatloads of trading capital. Although this gives them access to pattern-day-trading and hedging, their annual percentage returns on investment are not very impressive. Put another way, it's easy to generate a billion dollars in profit per year if you have 50 billion on hand. Just imagine a retail trader having $5000 and earning $100 per year which is the same 2% proportional equivalent. An investments bank's number 1 goal is to avoid risk. That goes for all of Wall Street as a whole. Whether they hedge six ways from Sunday or hire quants for high frequency trading, they're trying to turn trading into a sure thing rather than a risk-benefit. The underlying principle is that free money is free money no matter the annual rate of return. For example, an investment bank trader might hedge GBPJPY against S&P 500 index stocks because she/he knows that 401k/pension funds dump money into the S&P 500 index stocks every 2 weeks regardless of its price level. On a related note, Warren Buffet dumped money into the S&P 500 index and earned a higher return than an army of hedge funds over the course of 10 years. They paid Buffet a million dollars because he won the bet. As for quants, they algorithmically exploit volume-based order execution rebates and the exchange queue. This would earn pennies with small capital, but again they're using tens of billions. As a side note, if you're retail trading forex, CFD's, equities, EFT's, or options, one or more of the big investment banks are likely getting a piece of every order executed as market makers or liquidity providers. "Professional" traders are basically professional salespeople. There's nothing in a Series 7 Exam that ensures that these people have any special market analysis knowledge. It's essentially a great big business ethics law exam. In fact, given the pretentiousness and pressures of professional trading/sales, I often wonder whether retail traders are more likely to stick with trading in the long run.
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I guess US has fund managers and investment banking institutions looking after the portfolios on behalf of their clients.
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