The best thing commission-wise is to lease an exchange seat. However, this affects taxation, so there is more to consider than commission savings. But yea, the landscape is very competitive.
I mean Interactive Brokers, of course. But they also have introducing brokers, IB. So everything is right, I guess.
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Ok, jokes aside, now some serious input from me: an introducing broker pools activities from its clients and can therefore negotiate better rates for them, often much better than what an individual client with low volume could expect. In addition, they offer some handholding and service that the bigger FCMs cannot and dont want to offer for a low volume client. So for a beginning trader with low volume, an introducing broker can absolutely make sense. If you get more experienced, need less handholding and service from your broker and move some serious volume, it might be time to switch diretly to a FCM and negotiate individual good rates. If you trade at least 5000-10000 contracts per month, most FCMs will start listening to you.
They still are. In this CFTC report you can find all the FCMs in the USA: https://www.cftc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/01- FCM Webpage Update - July 2020.pdf And find information about their most important financial data (customers assets, capital requirements, excess net capital ... ).
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