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Strategies & Market Trends : Systems, Strategies and Resources for Trading Futures -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (42910)	12/28/2000 10:11:59 AM
From: SE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44573

I wonder if Field Financial's order desk answers the phone a lot quicker than IB when there is trouble. If so, the extra couple bucks per trade is well worth it.

To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (42910)	12/28/2000 10:12:35 AM
From: OX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

tx for the links. it seems all these futures brokers are ib's for others. As Atin noted, there must be only 4 real futures brokers, and all the others are just fronts <VBG> as another example, zapfutures looks like they are a front for LFG/refco i don't think the cheapest commission is a good 1st criteria, but $15 per contract seems high to me... must be my stock trading past where one can typically buy 5000 shares for $20. the one thing about cheaper commisions per contract is that it suits scaling in and out of positions, which suits my style. it sure has changed from the days where under $100/trade seemed cheap :-)