John, moving cash is easy....have the best trading platform at your disposal is the biggest advantage in the market place alongside iron cast discipline. I personally don't trade the ASlsi as I find its wild swings a little hectic for my contitution. I do however trade the Dow and Ftse paying a measly 1 point in and 1 out, ftse half of that. I have the best charts in the world available to me, intra day and med term tech analysis provided throughout the trading day ( Trading Central - check em out on google) which is a handy sounding board and scarily accurate interms of set levels and most importantly intra day trends. I deal direct from my charts with opening price, stop loss and target all plotted on the chart so I cant ***** it up if I tried to. When I close my position all related price orders are cancelled at the same time - basic stuff but not all platforms are capable of the basics and left open positions can bite you when you least expect it. I make money consistently and I cannot see how that would be possible without the cutting edge technology my platform delivers. All the best in choosing your platform, my opinion is that if the very best is the same cost as the luke warm, its no contest. By the way, the ftse trades all day and the Dow till 10pm - would be great to see you in the DJI pit one day!