IB is a great platform (though their design and tech suck), but by far offer the best margin rates. They are geared towards professionals though, and I think lo

IB is a great platform (though their design and tech suck), but by far offer the best margin rates. They are geared towards professionals though, and I think lots of people just don't know about them. So 2008, the great recession was a very positive period? Ok, here are QQQ returns starting at 2003: 2003 - 49.61% 2004 - 9.49% 2005 - 1.23% 2006 - 6.81% If you want to be bearish and hunker down in your bunker that is fine, but claiming that over 14 years of results is not a fair sample size is a stretch.