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Were the futures accounts made whole?

Its happening. The first banks are throwing in the towel. Credit Suisse sacked their chief dealer and is axing their FX desk. Barclays is reducing their headcount by 19000. Just couldnt handle all the draining...

The US still outspends Russia like 8x in military expenditures - even after the cuts. The Ukraine situation has little to do with it, neither with the US in general. More insight can be had here - its from a Yale history professor. His book about Ukraine ('Bloodlands') is also very good.

I don't know the first thing about exotic options trading. But wouldn't you say these kind of equity swings(-12% on the first 2 trades, and now risking ~25% of nav in the next trade) are a wee bit extreme?

DP: is this a systematic approach or discretionary decisions?

I think you guys need to look up the meaning of the term "frontrunning"

This is the dude from Zerohedge with the bar tab: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/fx-trader-spends-323483-liverpool-night-club At the time i thought it was a publicity stunt by the nightclub. I mean, Liverpool...

I would never want to live in Dubai. I was there for vacation once - its rather boring, basically hotels and shopping-centers and thats it. And way too hot for the majority of the year. Also, if you have a girl/wife, its a bad place to be - last year a (western) woman got raped, and then SHE got...

So whats wrong with interactive brokers?

How about real estate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/?ref_=nv_sr_1

No clue, but i can only guess. He never talked about his strategy in detail - but he said that he would inevitably end the day in the green. Which sounds to me like some sort of double down, or underwater pyramiding thing. So presumably blew up.

What exactly would you want to pay a prop shop for in FX(or currency futures)? There is plenty of leverage available for individuals/small firms - no need to split profits.

As far as i understand it, this only helps for security (quantum cryptography). The quantum entanglement might be instant, but the information payload itself will still have to travel over the wire as per usual (or what ever medium u have), and this will always be limited by the speed of light...

I dont think retail traders are active on ebs, nor am i. I just followed the press coverage. I would assume this only benefits less competitive or slower marketmakers. I don't see how it would affect for example point & click gui traders. To me this whole idea sounds silly. And apparently...

hft: are you active in FX? If yes, how did the EBS randomization window impact your strategies?

http://forexmagnates.com/ilq-cans-hedging-as-nfa-files-complaint-against-firm-3-senior-executives-for-failure-to-co-operate/ Also: http://www.nfa.futures.org/basicnet/CaseDocument.aspx?seqnum=3377 They appear to rank rather high on NFA's shitlist..

Still hardly an argument for Bitcoins tho. If you would store your coins in a financial institution that goes belly up, in a jurisdiction with a weak sovereign unable or unwilling to bail out depositors, your coins would be at risk too. If you would store your Euros cash under the mattress (aka...

def: do you plan on introducing decimal quotes instead of half-pips? IB is one of the last that still does this..

The EU commission didn't rob anything from you. Your bank effectively went bankrupt, had to restructure and the other european countries did choose not to bail you out. You know, the Germans not picking up the tab for every southern fk up is not the same thing as robbery.

You don't need to use charts from your broker really, even for short term trading. I'm using SierraCharts - its just $27 per month and has everything i need. I have never noticed any lags in their fx feed (in contrast to esignal). You could also use Ninjatrader, which is free for charting, if...