If you have $5K to fund TS account, instead of parking that in a useless bank account, then you don't need to pay tradestation the plateform fee Can you do just 10 roundturns coming month? Don't make decisions based on commision only
Well, IB eats the data fees, or at least doesnt mark them up like TS does. Ask them what the ECN books actually cost them, to justify $20 a month. Meanwhile, the TRAD stock is ramping wildly, so I guess the customers are happy.