Disliked{quote}-Personally, I do not see any benefit to trading a live account for a firm that does not fund your account with their own money. The only reason to continue trading for a firm that funds your live account with your sim profits would be so that you can try to get some of the money back that was stolen from you. Why anyone would want to continue sharing their profits when the account is self-funded is beyond me. Maybe there is more to it that I am not aware of. In cases where firms offer some kind of account-growth program (where their capital...Ignored
But I see that a 50K account has a trailing 2000 USD max loss with 5 contracts in TST
If they keep this in live (do they ?), then this is better than what we can find in a low margin broker like AMP Futures depositing 2K.
It's even worse with 3K max loss of 100K accounts with 10 contacts max. With 3K in AMP futures we can't go with 10 contracts ES.
And AMP limits the margin (increasing it) during news.
That's the only reason I see to use them, otherwise better to pocket 100% of the profits.
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