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If you want to trade futures, go to work for FC Stone.

AGE used to have this available, although I understand very few people took advantage of it. Same with Smith Barney. All the wires I’m aware of today have you get the 31 instead of the 3 so that should be an indication of the desire to move away not only from transactional biz entirely but especially one with such potential liability. It will be up to your BOM to approve. They all theoretically have the platform available. (The major wires anyway.) You may want to look at Brokersxpress for indy if even remotely considering futures. I’ve heard LPL makes it a pain to trade them even though it’s possible.

If you want to play that game its 24  7  365 and you best have a PHD on the type of product you are going to be trading. You are going to need to find clients that want to turn variable costs into fixed costs. I have a client thats a Pig Farmer that tries to lock in feed prices. I passed the futures trades to a futures trader.