Which Brokers for Less Active Traders?

Can someone recommend a few online brokers that I should check out? It seems that the brokers mentioned in these threads are for prop daytraders. I'm planning on trading only 2 to 3 single lots per week.

I've the info package from Lind-Waldock. I would like to be able to choose from a few more brokers.

tia

 

might help others if you say what you plan on trading ......futures, options, stocks?

# of shares?

anything you MUST have?

Robert

 

Sorry. I should have mentioned I planned on trading one Chicago futures at a time. I have a friend that is trading the same size, but he does it at a local firm which charges a slightly higher commission.

 

FuturesOnline (a division of Refco) has a web based trading platform.
http://www.futuresonline.com/

 

Thanks, PuffyGums. Do you have any dealings with them? Is that just a firm you know of or do you recommend it?

 

I just joined Interactive Brokers so I dont have much of a history but so far so good.

I like that I can do stocks and futures although the transfer of money between the accounts takes about 5 min worth of screwing around.

Price is right for the e mini

 

I'm a bit confused about the fees. Is it $2.40 per futures contract and you don't have to pay the data feed if you spend over $30 commission per month. There is no other fees.

Under currency commission, is that for changing actual currencies for deposits into your accounts?

I'm trading spot fx now. I wanted to trade IMM during the day and GLOBEX after market so which data feed do I subscribe to? IB FX?

 

hear its good for less active accounts

 

With IB you only can use products that trade electronically on Globex. Subscribe to Globex data (not FX or IDEAL) and trade the side-by-side contracts "6A to Z".

www.cme.com/products/currency/sxstickersymbols.cfm
www.cme.com/products/currency/products:currency:sxsfaq.cfm

 

would use IB in any way.