David Waring

For Futures Trading I am pleased to Recommend Apex Futures, a firm that has been serving futures traders worldwide for over 14 years, and offers traders the following advantages:

1. Customer Service. From my experience the reps are very patient with answering questions and, because they focus exclusively on the futures market, more knowledgeable about this market than other firms which offer multiple products.

2. Platform Ease of use. Because the platform only offers futures it is easier to use than some of the other platforms I have tried and designed in a way that is very intuitive in my opinion.

3. Transaction Costs: For electronic markets like the E Mini S&P's which is the most popular among individual traders, they offer 1.99 per side commissions which with the level of support that they offer via phone if needed is a very competitive rate.

4. Low Margins: For daytraders they offer $500 minimum margin requirements for the Emini S&P which is a lot lower than many other firms. I don't want to seem like I am encouraging people to follow poor money management, but particularly for daytraders this can allow them access to trade with proper money management and a smaller account than they would otherwise need.

If you would like a free realtime demo of the Apex Futures Trading Platform you can register for one at the link below:


I also cover how to place trades on their platform in my free futures trading course which you can find below:

Futures Trading Course - InformedTrades

As always if there are any questions or comments please feel free to post them in the comments section below.

Best Regards,
Dave

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My Free Courses: Forex Course - Stock Course - Futures Course - Basics of Trading - Subprime Crisis - Prorealtime Charts

Disclaimer: Trading is risky and can result in substantial financial loss. As always my posts are simply one traders opinion and should not be taken as trading advice. I am not a financial adviser so everyone please do their own analysis and take responsibility for their own trades.

Gunslinger

15 steps to complete. And I have to fax my passport or driver's license. This is going to take a while....but I'm hoping for a really nice real-time streaming quote/chart platform and easy position ordering......

David Waring

Hi Gunslinger,

Glad to hear from you.

Yes if you would like to open an account then unfortunately in the futures market as a whole the process is a little tedious. With this being said, you can try their platform out for free with demo money and realtime quotes using the link below:


Infinity AT Demo, Real Time, Futures Trading Platform, Apexfutures

That is the same platform that you will be trading on when trading live.

Hope that helps.

Best Regards,
Dave

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My Free Courses: Forex Course - Stock Course - Futures Course - Basics of Trading - Subprime Crisis - Prorealtime Charts

Disclaimer: Trading is risky and can result in substantial financial loss. As always my posts are simply one traders opinion and should not be taken as trading advice. I am not a financial adviser so everyone please do their own analysis and take responsibility for their own trades.

Unregistered

Took about an hour because of dial-up. I have the account number and just have to send money. Thanks Dave......

fxtrader777

I viewed their website and they do not seem to be among top brokers, I could not even find regulation, the link of demo account download platform redirects to other website.

However commissions are really low

David Waring

Hi fxtrader777,

Glad to hear from you.

Apex is basically the discount brokerage division of a company called Infinity Futures which you can see here. This is the reason why the platform is called Infinity Trader and why the download redirects to their site.

As for regulation you can read about that on their "about us" page on the website which you can see below:

Commodity Futures, E-Mini Online Discount Broker, Trading Platform

In the futures market, because markets are traded on an exchange and client funds are segregated, the size of a broker is in my opinion not as important as in the forex market. In fact one of the reasons why I like Apex is because they are a smaller division of a larger firm so when I call I generally get to speak to the same people who are very knowledgeable about the futures market. This is in my opinion much more important than in the stocks or forex market, where things a in my opinion a little more straightforward than in the futures market where things like contract size, minimum tick value, settlement month etc vary from contract to contract. So, to make a long story short here, I feel that with Apex I get all the benifits of personalized service that they can offer, without giving up anything in terms of higher commissions or anything like that.

As always this is just my opinion and no one service is going to be right for 100% of all traders so ultimately its important to go with whatever firm you think meets your needs the best.

Hope that helps.

Best Regards,
Dave

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My Free Courses: Forex Course - Stock Course - Futures Course - Basics of Trading - Subprime Crisis - Prorealtime Charts

Disclaimer: Trading is risky and can result in substantial financial loss. As always my posts are simply one traders opinion and should not be taken as trading advice. I am not a financial adviser so everyone please do their own analysis and take responsibility for their own trades.

fxtrader777

very interesting, I will consider that

thanks