My lord you are a moron. There is no such thing as market makers in futures trading. Who do you think provides the liquidity there? The traders provide the liquidity, period. The more day traders, or any type of trader, the better the liquidity. Day traders fill a very important role however. There are many of them willing to buy and sell at any given price. Big reason why the spread on bonds or ES is always 1 tic.
Sorry to tell you this, but you're misinformed. It's not only CME members that could get a significantly lower commish trading that kind of size. Secondly, your assumption that any amount of commission is impossible to overcome is wrong. Commish is relative to position size. Third, your assumptions about slippage are wrong. There is no huge problem moving 50 contracts in and out of the ES, as far as I can tell or as far as I have heard from guys on here that trade that kind of size (not me, I assure you). I don't know what you mean by 'trading retail'. I don't think most of the guys on here who are actual traders are 'trading retail' as you would think of it.
You suck dick for a living, i think that just might be lower than day trading. Oh and clearly eating ass and sounding like a moron are avid hobbies of yours. Nice to have you aboard.
Isn't this the same guy who was saying that people who short are Anti-American? Market makers in the futures markets, huh? I see....
I think you should work on your self esteem issues. You are obviously too worried and focused on what others think! I have never found anyone who wasn't interested in hearing more about what I do when I tell them that I trade for a living.
Go see a psychiatrist.. honest advice. Don't come here and get your ass handed down to you on ET because you are full of it.
------------- By your comments, "yet these sleazebags try to ooze out some of it." it appears you are the emotional type My friend it appears you are the one "to get your ass backwards" as you just stated "A stock may go down $1 in one session but in 2 days time it can regain a $2 price differential." in the same manner it can go down a further $4 on the 2nd day thereby losing more on the trade. Using your logic, you appear to be one of those hope traders seeing a stock plummet 10 / 20 % and saying to yourself it still has a chance to go back at even money. Sure everything has a chance and is possible (afterall in trading, anything CAN happen) but not everything is likely. You need to rethink of your strategy if you want to succeed in the long term in this business buddy. I'll give you some advice, Trading 101 learn to think in probabilities. Think before you blabber. As for most day traders blowing up their account in under 6 months, they probably don't have the experience and cost structure to do it. And i never said day trading was easy