Recent content by Pippi436

Its basically the russian mob. https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/regulation/maltese-prime-broker-exante-implicated-in-100m-insider-trading-scheme/

In hedgefund space fees have come way down. Very few are able to still charge 2/20.

If spoofing is a criminal activity they should file criminal charges in both cases.

They seem to rarely charge bank employees tho with these bank settlements.

Sierra used to have a russian language support board(not anymore). Someone said in another thread they are from Ukraine. I have psychological problems surrendering passwords to a closed source software from unclear origins. I have used them for charts only, that part is quite good in my opinion.

Of course, the independent trades got criminal charges, Citi walks with a fine..

True. On the other hand they rape you on o/n rolls in retail fx.

Sure. Longterm the numbers are very likely worse. Just saying numbers probably dont look much better in futures.

There was a futures broker bankruptcy like 10 years ago (the thread about this is still burried somewhere in this forum), and the court documents showed that ~90% of clients lost money. That is by the way way worse than Oanda, who must disclose the number of profitable/lossmaking client...

https://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/en/index.php?f=1595 For a FX position you will be payed/charged the interest rate differentials on both legs. Look at interest rate payed/charged in the link above. You get nothing for your 21.5K USD leg and should pay like 3% for the ~500K CZK leg.

It says they want in on Bitcoin.

Its a bit late in the game, isnt it

At least at cboe futures premium over spot was all over the place anywhere from 4% to 8% . Didnt look much like efficient price discovery. Then again spot btc doesnt either.

And you better bring a shotgun to localbitcoin deals

Is the 8.6% out-performance after fees?