Broker: Primary Advantage Futures. Also ED&F and Tradestation
Trading: Primarily Energy but also a little GE, GC, SI & Bitcoin
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i agree ICE have in recent years made it expensive to access any of their futures exchanges for the retail trader.
You may want to consider WebICE their own proprietary front end. I know you have to pay for access, but I'm very sure there is a some sort of offset mechanism where any trades you do reduce/offset that fee but unfortunately I can not find/google a link to support/show that.
Unfortunately this would imply the rebate/offset or 'minimum commission' only applys to their 'Swap2Future' ("S2F") products.
I believe all of their S2F products are the original ICE legacy "Over The Counter" ("OTC") products from before they bought IPE, NYBOT, NYSE etc etc. These all became cleared futures as part of the Dodd Frank Reform. While some of these do trade actively electronically (Henry Hub Natural Gas being the most obvious) many of these products still really only trade OTC and are then block cleared through ICE.
