"I got flagged recently by TD , I'm a registered rep , I don't know how they found out." Brokercheck and BTW your current employer give you any inkling an account at another firm would be a problem?
I'm not supposed to have an account outside of my firm , unless I notify them and that qualifies me as professional.
That's more for futures. I am talking about equities where brokers have lot more venues for making money. As you can see, brokers have plenty of venues other than commissions to make money that they really shouldn't be and really don't need to take the cut from the rebates that we are supposed to receive. They are making plenty to cover their "overhead" and then some. Thomas Peterffy, the owner of IB is one of the top 3 richest people in Connecticut, with a networth of $22 BILLION so they are not really starving there. To use your restaurant analogy, exchange rebates for us is like the coupons that we get from some organization for visiting a restaurant in a particular neighbourhood or for a particular theme for that organization. That's rebates for us from that organization; the restaurant has nothing to do with it and shouldn't be allowed to have any part of it.
Facebook, twitter, linkedin, credit bureau, the organization you're register with that has a public list of reps, recently psssst off ex-lover or any online info that pops up when you type in your name & city...worst...they hacked into your computer and know everything about you...including having remote access to your webcam. Simply, they may be watching you right now. wrbtrader
Give their client services a call and find out. I doubt they'd hide it from you. Post it here if you want. For what it's worth I called TDA and the client services rep said they do not use email. So it probably wasn't that.
*smacks forehead* Damn, I totally forgot about this option! Yes, pretty much every ISP out there will have the option for you to set-up an e-mail account on their domain. Duh! wrbtrader gets a V8-flavored cookie!
You are fortunate you are still employed. At most other firms you would be out the door. You may also want to review their policy of posting here or anywhere else.
Seems that you could open a gmail account or whatever and just have the Tradestation mail forwarded to your preferred address. I understand that at this point you would prefer to leave Tradestation; just an observation in the event it were to happen again in the future.