Interesting blog post from the Independent Newspaper website, hints that maybe Sarkozy is political posturing (the French elections are very soon)...
He must be trying to show the FTT has global support (ie from countries in many continents). In reality he could only list a couple of countries...
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Pure trend following strategies do not try to 'predit' the market, they 'follow' the market.
Miller appears to be an expert snake oil vendor. He is very good at selling and marketing himself on the internet, and he uses all the best...
How much of Millers' millions are from fleecing newbie traders with his snakeoil courses? I been trading for over a decade, i remember back in...
There would be too many snake oil vendors to list.. there are literally thousands of charlatans in this industry all ready and waiting to fleece...
They say there was nice rally going on the Moscow stock exchange the morning the Bolsheviks stormed in and shot all the traders. And during a...
There are two accounts behind the scenes, a securities account and a commodities account. In the old days my IB statements would list how my funds...
Didnt Covel used to run a vitamin selling website before going into snake oil vending on the back of the Turtle story. What is Hershey's...
lol.. i see what you mean. I think IB is safe because of all the cash they have acts as a buffer.. But maybe one day Peterfly takes it all...
What about money deposited with other exchanges like say ICE or with the options exchanges? Perhaps most of the 'missing' funds are on deposit...
Auto liquidation might not be any good on a very nasty Black Swan event that happens over the weekend and causes the markets to lock limit down...
Fraud can happen at IB, at any company. Not even by management, it could be a rouge trader who knows how to cover his tracks until up to the end,...
Based on that reply.. there is a good chance that initial deposits into a futures account might be protected by SIPC. Lets say you deposited...
It would seem IB get around this by having 2 accounts for you, one a futures account and one a securities account. Profits from futures trading...
Based on the way IB say they sweep funds: It would seem the broker cant directly use the cash in a SIPC covered account for futures margin, the...
I think the UK version of SIPC is company based and not account type based. Cash, Stocks, FX, Futures accounts are all protected up a limit...
One of the IB reps once posted on ET that if any one is serious about this he can put them in contact with Lyolds of London.
SIPC should take care of the financial standing bit, unless you got more than 250K, but in that case i doubt you care about saving a few dollars...
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