Monk's Den

[Stockbert]

Morning all.

You want to use a major investment house. I've been using ETrade Pro starting this week with their 2 second guarantee, still learning how to use it but trades are near instant. Considering that a 3 second delay can mean hundreds of dollars difference, and that trading the Fs really needs 25 grand minimum, worrying about a few bucks on trading costs is losing the forest in a tree. Saving 14 bucks a round trip and losing 3000 dollars due to timing isn't worthwhile. I'm also being nice about the potential delay, it could be 30 seconds or more.

Some folks have been able to negotiate the trading costs with the major brokers too, so the difference would be even less.