MBT was my first ONLINE futures account. Prior to that, for me, it was pick up the phone and talk to a registered series 3 broker. Global futures ***I THINK*** has become GFF Brokers... https://www.gffbrokers.com/ And a sponsor of ET.
Island Used it to avoid MM bs many moons ago Datek started around 1996 with $9.99 commissions and catered to day traders with their streamer and level II and island routing Ameritrade bought Datek around 2002
Yep.. that was when I first started daytrading in 1997... and I used them until they were bought out... loved that ecn. .. much better than the exchanges
15 years ago, MF global is a over250 years history company, it seems also bankrupted because of the world's fastest and largest crushing down in 1 second of EUR.CHF on 2015 1.15.
I started daytrading with Datek in '99, remember 9.99 commissions and 60-second order fill and fractions, ISLD ecn etc, used it with medved quotetracker, TV ads with truck drivers owning tropical islands, ah the good old days lol
$5 is peanuts compared to how much they charged before the Internet. I guess you were just a baby back then.
In 1997 my money manager was charging me $300 per trade for 100 to 300 shares.... he didn't last long..