How is everybody?

Well, obviously my last little silver options trade did not work out so well...sigh....

Anyways, as I prepare to travel back to Russia to live with my fiancee for a couple months I want to set up an electronic trading account, specifically for trading options on futures but also just futures (daytrading the s&p) ...and it would also be nice to have access to stock and stock options on the same platform, anyone know if this is possible? To do all trading on just one platform?

I talked to "Tradestation" and they can do stocks and futures on one account but it is 10k min. (5k for stocks and 5k for futures) AND an additional 5k just for futures options...so it would be 15k total...and the options platform (on futures) is also seperate....

I would at least like to be able to have access to futures and options (on futures) for just a 5k account...my full service broker will do it thru an RJ O'brien platform but told me commisions will stay at $50!! I don't think so, lol...

Anyways if I have a futures & futures options platform then I can just trade stocks on a seperate account anyways...

Anyhow any advice is well appreciated in advance...
Cheers!
Ron