you need 25k to trade retail broadstreet locks up the deposit for about 3 months and there is no lockup with cy if retail why not IB, I currently use them, how is lightspeed better than IB?
good point. basically if you only have 5k and you want to make a go of trading you really have no choice but to go prop. Regarding IB, I have not used them but IB is a great place to open an account.
sterling is fast but you have to take extra steps for stop orders and trailing stops, i don;t know if they fixed that