Try to develop a trading strategy for your futures or forex trading is hard enough. Now you have to find the correct trading platform that matches your style of trading. Not all futures trading platforms are made the same or can fit all trading styles. You must determine what your needs are when debating platforms for which you can use to trade successfully.

As you research futures trading platforms also know that you are researching the online futures broker. So what are the questions you need to ask yourself, to ensure that you choose the right futures trading broker with the right futures trading platform?

So, before you research which futures trading platform and futures trading broker that you do select, evaluate yourself and find out are you going to day trade or hold positions overnight. There is no use receiving long term charts, having a full service broker and getting trade updates on a weekly basis if you are looking to day trade the S & P 500. By simply asking yourself this question will save loads of time and can hone your choices of selecting the right futures trading platform along with an online futures broker much easier and faster.

Your next step is to find out which platforms and online brokers you are interested in and speak to them so that you can explain to them what you need for your particular trading style or method 

Understand that by doing this, you become a name that that futures broker will call in order to get your business 

This is how they earn their living so you’ll need to be tolerable and not take it personally. They’ll want to know exactly how much trading experience you have, and how much money are you going to open your trading account for. These questions will directly effect how much commissions they will charge you. They are researching you just as much as you are researching them, so be prepared.

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Is there anybody here who is a stock trader? Would you like to find out how you can analyze, compute, assess and foresee the outcome of the stock trading game for the following day? Here is one Day Trading Robot review that one investor have made: “At first, I was very timid to go for stock trading but because of the perseverance of a friend, I finally decided to check out Day Trading Robot. But what really get me to go into stock trading is this newsletter that he presented to me which was the result of Day Trading Robot, a program that was created and modified to assist all stock trader examine, assess, calculate and finally foresee where to put your money in the right places. If there is a option that you can either be a rich man in just one night and evade the chances of becoming a beggar the following day, then, Day Trading Robot can really help you out. Now, I’m still in the stock trading game and it’s all because of Day Trading Robot. Many people may aver that it is a scam or a racket but I doubt it. I’ve used it since I started investing and yet, still, here I am, making good investments and making good profit using Day Trading Robot.”

This investor is just one of the many day trading, stocks exchange and/or penny stocks investors who have made it to the top because of Day Trading Robot and they are grateful to one guy who developed this to help them with their investing and this guy’s name is Jason Kelly, and according to Day Trading Robot reviews, Jason was once a programmer for a small European hedge fund. He helped developed a stock trading robot that gives out newsletter to investors to help them get the idea on where to put their investments in the right places. Today, that he is on his own, he made THE Day Trading Robot and continued with his mission of helping stocks trading investors. He was helped before and now through another Day Trading Robot review, it will be Jason’s turn to help others.

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To become a commodity trader you need the series 3. But who are you selling to? I understand the concept of leverage and the potential profits/losses. Do you have to seek out clients or do the clients seek you out? Working for a firm, what happens when the contract expires and with the actual commodity? Can you give me a "day in your life" description? What degrees and other licenses/designations do you have?

Talk to some investment banks. The permits and licences required are very complex, and the trading even more so….think about it – how would you trade weather? Sell some heat or even rain? I've worked with this stuff a little, although not quite on the trading side – very interesting, but nothing you can do without a huge bank behind you

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggHxjYOjEMGJcNQGflXNdwx4Sckw
AFP
Miliband to urge US to stand firm on free trade: report
3 days ago
LONDON (AFP) — {British Labour} Foreign Secretary David Miliband
"American internationalism has been a feature of all periods of global progress," he told the business daily before heading to the United States where he will meet advisers to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, among others.
"It's absolutely clear that the world needs an America that's engaged with the global trading system in a very fundamental, very committed way. The problem is not too much trade, the problem is too little trade.
"That is our position as a British government, and it will be articulated clearly and consistently."
NAFTA, created under Bill Clinton in 1994, created the largest trading bloc in the world by eliminating import tariffs on goods circulating among partners Canada, the United States and Mexico.
The foreign secretary's stance comes after criticisms from Canada and the EU's trade commissioner Peter Mandelson, who attacked US presidential hopefuls — but not by name — for appearing to want to disengage from globalisation.

"It's a mirage and they know it and it's very irresponsible, in my view, to pretend to people that we can disengage from international trade, we can create barriers around our economy and be surprised when people retaliate by doing the same," he told BBC television earlier this month.

"Where's that going to lead us? It's going to lead us into a vicious spiral of 'beggar thy neighbour' policies which will take us decades back in terms of trade growth and rising living standards that we've seen in the world."

No. Free trade is a one way ticket to globalization. Democrats believe in fair trade, which is exactly what the name implies.

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AFP Miliband to urge US to stand firm on free trade: report -
3 days ago

LONDON (AFP) — {British Labour} Foreign Secretary David Miliband

"American internationalism has been a feature of all periods of global progress," he told the business daily before heading to the United States where he will meet advisers to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, among others.

"It's absolutely clear that the world needs an America that's engaged with the global trading system in a very fundamental, very committed way. The problem is not too much trade, the problem is too little trade.

"That is our position as a British government, and it will be articulated clearly and consistently."

NAFTA, created under Bill Clinton in 1994, created the largest trading bloc in the world by eliminating import tariffs on goods circulating among partners Canada, the United States and Mexico.

The foreign secretary's stance comes after criticisms from Canada and the EU's trade commissioner Peter Mandelson, who attacked US presidential hopefuls — but not by name — for appearing to want to disengage from globalisation.

"It's a mirage and they know it and it's very irresponsible, in my view, to pretend to people that we can disengage from international trade, we can create barriers around our economy and be surprised when people retaliate by doing the same," he told BBC television earlier this month.

"Where's that going to lead us? It's going to lead us into a vicious spiral of 'beggar thy neighbour' policies which will take us decades back in terms of trade growth and rising living standards that we've seen in the world."
Democrats used to be against this:-
'In 1932, with international trade in collapse, Franklin Roosevelt denounced Smoot-Hawley as ruinous. Hoover responded that Roosevelt would have Americans compete with "peasant and sweated labor" abroad. Then, as now, protectionism had a strong if superficial political appeal: by election eve, F.D.R. had backed down, assuring voters that he understood the need for tariffs. Protectionist politicking, however, could not save the Republicans in 1932. Smoot and Hawley joined Hoover in defeat. The Democrats dismantled the G.O.P.'s legislative handiwork with caution, using reciprocal trade agreements rather than across-the-board tariff reductions. The Smoot-Hawley approach was discredited. Sam Rayburn, House Democratic Speaker from 1940 until 1961, insisted that any party member who wanted to serve on the Ways and Means Committee had to support reciprocity, not protectionism.'

from Time Magazine, "Shades of Smoot-Hawley
Monday, Oct. 07, 1985"

I think if Obama continues to push protectionism over free trade, then yes, he'll make enemies abroad.

I am absolutely pro-free trade because it's the freest and fairest way of doing business for all concerned, but I find this whole argument insulting since Europeans lay very heavy tariffs on foreign agriculture and industry. Developing countries are struggling to industrialize, but they have an overabundance of labor, suitable for agriculture. If European countries lowered their tariffs, developing nations could export agricultural goods and compete on the global market. Maybe we wouldn't have to send so much aid to developing nations. Imagine that.

So, Obama should adopt a pro-free trade position and stop fear-mongering with talks of re-negotiating NAFTA for people in Ohio.