Hotspot FX

Discussion in 'Forex Brokers' started by drasfs, Jan 21, 2008.

  1. Conflicts of interest will always exist when your broker is counterparty, it's the nature of the business and there's no way around that at these levels.

    Comparing 2 jet engines and 2 parachutes to having 4 broker accounts instead of 1 would be alright if mean you need to spread funds around in case one broker goes bust, but that wasn't what you were saying, or was it :confused:
     
    #31     Jan 22, 2008
  2. ssss

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    Hotspot FXr as Principal. Hotspot FXr does not operate a dealing desk nor does it trade against you.


    It is statement that your order would sended
    without intermediary direct to bank &

    But not that company would not take another side of the order .

    Company have proprietary trading desk !

    And can not be pure agent of principal
    Or common pure agent of multiple principals

    Income of the company from proprietary trading broadly depend from knowledge
    of client's tactic and behaviar .

    USA and EU law not forbidd for company
    use information about clients for proprietary trading desk .


    By pure agent of principal by client agreement must be ...company and he#s affiliate have not proprietary trading desk and proprietary trading activities in any form
    ...
     
    #32     Jan 22, 2008
  3. ssss

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    Conflicts of interest will always exist when your broker is counterparty, it's the nature of the business and there's no way around that at these levels.

    Please ask harward law scool through internet
    what is pure agent of principal from romian law
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    Comparing 2 jet engines and 2 parachutes to having 4 broker accounts instead of 1 would be alright if mean you need to spread funds around in case one broker goes bust, but that wasn't what you were saying, or was it

    Please make good study of all aspect of game theory Puankare ,Shannon ,John von Neuman

    Wihtout fundamental knowledge author can not
    disscuss with you .


    Your respectfully ...
     
    #33     Jan 22, 2008
  4. Counterparty, they all are. It's a bit academic what they say they do after they've filled your order.
     
    #34     Jan 22, 2008
  5. Sorry but what you're saying simply doesn't make any sense!

    Why is it better to have 4 accounts of $1750 than 1 account of $7k? Are you talking about 4 accounts at 4 different brokers or 4 accounts with one broker?

    I'm not sure how I can ask the question any clearer.
     
    #35     Jan 22, 2008
  6. Well it was my understanding that's one of the primary differences between FXi and FXr. On FXi (like Currenex, Lava, etc), your orders are transacting directly with other banks/traders on the system. Whereas on FXr, your orders are indirectly transacting b/c Hotspot is manually offsetting positions.
     
    #36     Jan 22, 2008
  7. MrAngry

    MrAngry

    Even on the institutional platform it is not acting as the market maker. It's the counterparty because in the same way that CME or Eurex Clearing is the counterparty to trades on the exchange. The hedge funds who use it are not daft and they have massive choice where they trade.

    There will be times when the price has changed as it is being dealt on, which in theory raises several possibilities, including:

    Hotspot is liable to the trade and out of court,
    Hotspot is liable to the trade and in court.
    Hotspot may bust it.

    Hotspot had to have the right to bust trades because the latency arbers were all over the banks a few years back. Despite what anyone might think, the banks run the market and most other market makers are liquidity repackagers. Without the banks, platforms have no liquidity, so Hotspot had to do several things which are not that savoury, but a necessity.
     
    #37     Jan 22, 2008
  8. What :confused:

    What has that got to do with the way marketmakers fill orders? It's not going to change because it simply can't change at these levels.
     
    #38     Jan 22, 2008
  9. Well I quoted the FXi agreement by mistake and that would suggest FXi is counterparty. You quoted FXr and that said they are also counterparty. There doesn't seem to be a lot of difference in that respect.
     
    #39     Jan 22, 2008
  10. Absolutely (but did you mean all over the brokers not the banks?)
     
    #40     Jan 22, 2008