for all you traders out there who are unhappy with your firms, i have to share with you my wonderful experience with benchmarq. totally professional and a GREAT platform. a real pleasure!
Come on jungleland78 give an ad please. Do you think he is the type of guy who recruits for other firms for a piece of your commission haha.
was with them since the begining of the year..their plaqtform was great..i trade baskets and it was easy. also, i received my funds right away..not like that other firm that i traded with..you remember, echo..with them, getting my money was always a horror show! and Nick is a pleasure.
ps. i do not work for them nor am i trying to get any overrides..just want to share my experience thats all.
Sounds like you're having a good experience there. Can you tell me: Where is the office? Can you trade any strategy or do they try to make you scalp all day? Is it a professional atmosphere or is it full of a bunch of chimps smashing keyboards and yelling 'f*ck!" all day? And most importantly, what is the condition of the men's room? I know that sounds silly but the men's room at WorldCo was nasty and I just couldn't get myself to work in that environment. Thanks uptik
the office is in midtown nyc 5th and 17th..i trade from home so i can not comment about the bathroom...worldco's bathroom was really that bad? i guess walter was a total mess.
Seemed like a great firm when I was in contact. I just couldn't adjust to their platform, it's personal preference. If you demo the platform and enjoy it, I think it could be a great place to go trade.
"The position requires the utmost commitment, as we are not a 9:30am-4pm trading firm (please do not respond if you think these are your hours). We have rigid rules and expectations of our trainees, with no room for non-serious individuals. The position is non-salaried, and is performance based. A capital contribution is required, however, the company can fund exceptional individuals with extremely outstanding credentials. " Fader mentioned there was no restriction on strategy chosen/exectued; sounds like lots of freedom. The above statement sounds a little unique to prop trading firms (i was initially attracted by the freedom of it all) I want to be clear; I am not criticizing/being negative in asking: "who does the above statement apply to? {just wondering. Went to an Assent branch once for 1 week. Everyone was self-funded, but they were constantly being told to take 4 cent losers on stocks like amd and vlo--not saying you can't be profitable like this (there was a guy in the office that was really profitable doing this), but its obviously not going to suit everyone}