Just a quick follow-up to this. The free exn plan has definitely been working well for me the past few weeks and I think it's also worth noting that their desktop pro software is the better option to use with it.

That's a great point. Thanks again for all the input you've given!

So now that they switched the pay for limits plan to only $0.50 per $100k and charge 4 times that and the spreads are slightly wider than free EXN, how do you think it works out that pay for limits gets you better net results? Also, thanks for your ...

Good info on both options - thanks to all who have responded. I am hoping more people will still chime in, so I am basically lurking in my own thread here.

Thanks RoBiK. If you use (or have used) both programs, can you comment on the execution? Was one or the other faster/better/more consistent, etc.?

Well, after the events of the past few days, I think it's safe to say that PFG is NOT the best broker for 2012!

I read somewhere that the only traders (so far) who will get their money back from PFG are Canadian because of the tight regulations there. If that is true, whatever the rules are in Canada must be enough to ensure that brokers have to adhere to the ...

Maybe those people are behind a Sonic Wall or something similar and they don't even know it?

Well, it WAS a weekend Maybe they'll get to it by today.

No kidding. What a joke. Should he go out of business or cheat? Really? His whole business WAS cheating if he was going to such extremes as Photoshopping documents, forging banker signatures, creating PO boxes to intercept mail that was supposed to ...

There's a certain degree of "glutton for punishment" going on with many of us, I think, simply because the desire to get it right is greater than the pain of blowing an account or three. I'll never admit that I got it right though because if I let ...