In this podcast we are going to talk about trading high volatility. I want to talk about my experience in trading extreme or significant events such as elections and I’ll give you some tips on how to take care of risk and hopefully come out ahead. 

I refer to some charts and other things in this podcast. These can be found here:
https://bowerpost.com/2020/11/03/elections-trading-volatility/

In this episode, we talk about choosing a broker. 

This chat considers the following:

1. Full service versus discount. 
2. Commissions rates.
3. Data fees. 
4. Other fees.
5. Access to software. 
6. Access to data.
7. Access to markets. 

Questions to consider or ask a potential broker:

• Do you have day discounted day trading markets? Do they change the commissions you pay? 
• Do you support exchange traded spreads and spread margins? Examples: calendar spreads NoB, FyT, ZW-KW and 
• If I have an account in two currencies, one negative and one positive (but net positive overall), am I charged a fee on the negative balance?
• (If trading options) do you charge round turn upfront for short options? Or do you charge for expiring options?
• Are there other fees I need to know about?  

Other questions:  

• Is there a package deal on data? For example, is there a US futures package or a worldwide future package?
• Can I keep funds in one currency and trade in another without extra fees or penalty?

In this podcast series we are setting up a trading account from scratch.  We are trading some old and some new markets with new software and along the way building an approach. 

The sheet of paper is pretty blank at the moment. 

In this episode, we are going to talk about what markets we are going to trade and why. 
 
We talk about exchange traded products, liquidity, affordability, volatility and ‘spreadability’.

We look at the micro futures contracts. Micros are available in the DOW, Nasdaq100, the Russell2000 and the S&P500.

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