I have decided to put a significant amount of my money with AMP

Discussion in 'Retail Brokers' started by balckagroop, May 28, 2020.

  1. Nobert

    Nobert

    Making this public, prior the results are known, is as good as working in the police and calling into ghetto project, and letting them to know that you will come after 3 hours, do search for drugs and illegal guns.

    (this is just a random episode with police, since i mentioned it. Funny stuff tho)
     
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    #71     May 30, 2020
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  2. destriero

    destriero

    TBH, I don't understand the analogy.

    It's nobody's fault. It's the social media generation. You don't think I'd be all over instagram if I were a kid with that net liq? They don't know anything but flexing (no disrespect). I flex my account all the time and I am >50.
     
    #72     May 30, 2020
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  3. Nobert

    Nobert

    The purpose as OP wrote is to check for :
    Thus i wonder, why would anyone announce publicly about it, prior to doing that.
    It should be done in ,,secret'' and if any problems shows up, only then pointing them out (?), thus they would have no chance to prepare for it and would be running business as usual.
    (with all of the flaws - if there's any at all)

    Or i simply got wrong the intentions of OP. For me it sounds like some sort of investigation, and usually those are done in silence.
     
    #73     May 30, 2020
  4. destriero

    destriero

    No way. He passed compliance before wiring. C'mon.

    What could they possibly see by watching the guy's trades? He's not going to trade his limit the first few days anyway as he's been put on notice. I am even less likely to put money with AMP. I think they're fine but too flighty. I've been doing this in some semi/professional capacity for 25 years. Credit risk precludes it, but I could wire 10 to them next week and they're going to limit me to 300?

    Their model lives on thousands of 1-5 lot traders. Can't go bust. The problem is that balcka needs a bank-FCM but won't be satisfied with the haircut. He's got a lot of money but not enough to be interesting to a major clearer.
     
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    #74     May 30, 2020
  5. Nobert

    Nobert

    I see. This is how i initially saw it :

    #1. Last week same company had the most viewed tread.
    (some took it as a negative thing for their rep)

    #2. Week later a random user shows up (3 weeks old acc/unless thats an alt), and puts 7 figures right away into them
    (given the low overall size of em ($4 - $5 M ?), how much he puts in, how fresh the OP is and it becoming most viewed tread again- that's bit weird)

    #3. Can imagine the end of the story, ,,everything is fine with em'' = public rep restored

    Just the overall concept of the situation and the sequence of events looked weird.
    Maybe just too paranoid or one movie too many.

    Thanks for correcting Dest.

    Good luck OP & good luck AMP.
     
    #75     May 30, 2020
  6. I just read through this thread and the OP needs to learn a page from AMP as far as risk management. At a minimum he should be trading at three times the Exchange Minimums with that kind of capital to protect.
     
    #76     May 30, 2020
  7. tiddlywinks

    tiddlywinks

    This guy @balckagroop, by his own admission, as of May 9, 2020 stated in another thread...

    Meanwhile, @destriero is now a compliance officer, knowledgeable in all business aspects of a specific futures and fop only firm, in addition to being up to date with all front end and back end compliance policies and procedures in a relatively fresh heightened period of volatility. And we also have @balckagroop, who will be reporting back to us any "compliance, or anything else" workings he doesn't agree with. Im guessing here, but I think his findings may be curated through his belief that account size is all one needs to be considered for trade risk purposes. Yes he certainly has come a long way since May 9. Vast knowledge and first-hand experience be damned.

    Me, I'm just a happy, proud, and many years profitable piker (less than 100k, by choice) AMP account holder.
     
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    #77     May 30, 2020
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  8. snowman80

    snowman80

    amp is like a girl who invites a guy over to fool around and when the guy drops his pants and the girl sees his ‘account size’ she backs off.

    it’s fcuk or walk
     
    #78     May 30, 2020
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  9. Oh, I am done. This was a good sign. Requested account closure and wire transfer out yesterday.
     
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    #79     May 30, 2020
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  10. destriero

    destriero

    Yawn. All you can do is target a liquidation figure. WHAT COMPLIANCE? WTF is the compliance officer going to do when you're enforcing initial margins on outrights at what CME initial is on the SWITCH (intra/calendar trade)?

    It's the Wild West. 2K per maintenance of 1K.

    As stated previously; liquidation if account hits 200K net liq per $1MM (down 80%).
     
    #80     May 30, 2020