Nothing that I am aware of. I trade with OandA. Unlike most online FX firms, they don't have 100,000-unit size or mini. With OandA, you can open an account with any amount and trade positions of 1 unit to 10,000,000 units.
Yes, I check them out 2 or 3 times daily prior to each market opens just to see what R/S others are looking at. I also grab the calendar of next week's economic data before the market opens for the week on Sunday.
The headline news are a bit out of date. The market usually moved long before...
My one liner post about my 1.2% per day return sure generated a lot of traffic here. It seems that most members here were reading between the lines (how that was possible from a one line message, I will never know) and made all kinds of assumptions.
I have a small 20K account. I don't have...
What's the odds of having "an upgrade, takeover, something like that" happening on the first of your five trading days after you have already taken a position?
What do the Canadian regulators have to do with Canadians wanting to open accounts in the US or any other countries?
There are many firms in the US and overseas that have no problems having non-resident account holders. In fact I am trading out of a firm in NY currently.