You'll need to supply a prospective broker: Financial investment goals. This may include income, growth, capital conservation or speculation. Trading experience. The broker will would like to know your understanding of investing, for how long you've been trading stocks or options, how many trades you make annually and the size of your trades.Have on hand your liquid net worth (or investments quickly cost money), annual income, overall net worth and employment details. The types of options you want to trade. Based on your answers, the broker usually appoints you an initial trading level (normally 1 to 4, though a 5th level is ending up being more typical) that is your key to positioning particular kinds of alternatives trades.