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@ryann22 Clearly you are not very familiar with casinos. They also have "pretty intense" challenges and managing risk for them isn't dull in any sense of this word. Most of their income does not come from "gambling against clients" either. Well, if it isn't a zero-sum game, could you provide...

@ryann22 How is it wrong though? Any trader has a chance to win, but only if another trader looses. The exchanges and market makers on the other hand get a steady income stream regardless of who wins or loses. It is a zero sum game with traders as a group losing the money.

@ryann22 Yeah, but the main risk is me not quite understanding how markets work and making incorrect assumptions. Yesterday it turned out I had completely wrong idea about market makers. Still got up 5%, but now I'm really tempted to take out initial investment (I'm 60% up) and play with paper...

@resjudicata I have account at IB. My problems with them are 1) high minimums per transaction; 2) weird requirements for trading without margin - stocks can't be bought & resold at the same day as you have to wait until money gets settled. TradeStation seems to have similar limitations - options...

I'm looking for EU broker that provides access to US options and has lower fees than IB. This is to try out a few risk~ish algotrading strategies, so the money involved is small thus making IB's minimal transaction costs relatively high overhead. Degiro lists following US options exchanges...