Trading Plans

The ‘all-in’ price difference for MES is $0.25 between the membership free plan (most expensive per trade, but no monthly cost) and the commission free plan (least expensive per trade, but $200/mo upfront cost). 200/0.25=800 contracts per month to break even. Or rather, 400 contract trades in both directions. I’m waiting to get ACH funded still, but I’ve gone through 800 contracts in 3 days in demo, so imagine I’ll probably be going with the expensive plan pretty much right away - that seems to be one of the big advantages of tradovate vs others: the rates are already pretty great on the membership free account, but the commission free account with an upfront cost is an even better value.