What are the Broker Warning Signs?

I'm very happy with my current broker, but with everyone talking about dealing desks and ECN's... well... I don't want to finally be profitable and then have my hard earned profit locked away in litigation because my broker went out of business.

Are there any "early warning signs" from my broker that I should be looking out for that may let me know it's time to withdrawal some capital?

So far everything has been great... call me paranoid... but better safe than sorry!

The NFA has minimum requirements for Net Captial. This is why we've seen some companies going out of business lately. Make sure your broker isn't right at the minimum. I think it is $1M right now.

How would I find that info? Is there a place that has that sort of data on the brokers out there?

Thanks in advance!

http://www.cftc.gov/files/tm/fcm/tmfcmdata0703.pdf