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    Discount brokers and my frear of broker insolvency

    Thanks Jym - I started with them...but for some reason they have not approved my a/c ...went thru a lot of documentation and other stuff ...still could not open an a/c till date :-( . So IB is out ..almost out I should say Thanks anyhow
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    How did Goldman Sachs gain from this?

    The current question is NOT how goldman gained directly, the current question IS whether Goldman disclosed what they HAD TO ...i.e. Did Goldman tell their client that the underlying assets for their synthetic derivative were selected by some one who was shorting those very items. Did they do...
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    Discount brokers and my frear of broker insolvency

    Hi Efficiency : Thanks for the detailed reply Hi Everyone : Is there a discount broker poll here ? I'd like to hear from the users rather than from some ranking site Regards Subu
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    Discount brokers and my frear of broker insolvency

    Hi Has anyone here tried Zecco (online broker ?) ...views please ; WITHOUT recourse Thanks in adv best regards Subu
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    Discount brokers and my frear of broker insolvency

    Hi Great point by point reply. Much appreciated Agreed. I should have clarified... probably explained my paranoia :-) better : - FDIC => Covers up to 100,000 in FDIC affiliate clearing brokers - SPIC => Said to cover ...repeat said to cover securities that have NOT been credited to...
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    Discount brokers and my frear of broker insolvency

    Thanks Coolweb. That's a great starting point. I used Google to look at the quoted ones (related companies) Except one or two of the quoted ones (that I could find, like TD Ameritrade), the rest do _not_ handle internationals or the rest charge above US $ 10 per stock trade.... and hence my...
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    Discount brokers and my frear of broker insolvency

    Hi I'm fairly new to this game. I invest in / trade stocks. NO options. I'm NOT a US Citizen (Non resident Alien seems to be the technical term) Broker insolvency scares me..hard earned money vanishing because some one had gleaming offices or a bad business model ... Most discount...
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