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Some -90% YoY, sounds like a lot less confidence.

Is ADL the same thing as TickIt(tm) ?

Jurisdiction or not, the cftc does try to enforce their rules in an extraterritorial fashion - if they have a mind to do so. They got a number of offshore fx dealers to settle with them (for accepting u.s. clients). There is an article on Robert Green's website somewhere on how that exactly...

IIRC discretionary in this means only individual private traders, no managed accounts or friends&family accounts and so on.

Albeit probably noone giving a sht about the op's 3 hour candles, its not impossible. The SNB does it in a quite convincing fashion.

Surely HK or Singapore, if you dont mind a caning now and then.

P.S.: the Schneider presentation was on there: http://www.advantagefutures.com/Seminar_Center_Past.html CTRL-F for 'Schneider'

Whats the deal with Schneider. I once saw a presentation, looked like they did spreads in european rates futures. Altho it wasnt immediately obvious why they would recruit random traders w/o trackrecord. Guessing deskfee + churning commissions then?

Its not so cheap in UK or the US. In the US the number of firms is actually way down compared to a few years ago, and hardly any newcomers in the Uk. I think the retail-market is already rather mature with only very limited groth potential(except maybe Asia/EM). Personally i only consider London...

Fixi is a well knowen London based broker. They only take high-end retail clients (100K+) or professional accounts. They work with UBS.

So how is megaupload.com any more evil than any other file-hosting website?

That's clearly the best programming language there is.

So what is it exactly that Eurex and the evil algos do exactly to piss you off? Frontrunning? I find that incredibly hard to believe.

If you want to open an account with a PO box on the Seychelles, this would be fit..

By the way, every EU country needs to operate a similar compensation scheme for retail investors, its in a EU directive. I dont really know whats the deal with the UK scheme, but i do know the compensation fund where i live (Austria) is a complete joke, it exists only on paper. They got only...

"Spot Forex Contracts are unregulated products and therefore not protected by the FSCS." Your margin on open position apparently is not covered by the FSCS. I assume the free cash in the account is? At least thats what most firms tell their clients. Altho the fineprint says "may be eglible...

Anyone tried Microsoft's Sho ? http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/sho/ Apparently MSFT is using this internally for data analysis since years. Its using IronPython (so easy .NET interop) and Intel MKL (should be fast). I like the interactive console for VisualStudio. I have...

I think they are, in addition to the implicit govt backstop of the bigger banks. Not sure what happens to a margin position in the worst case tho and if ECP / professional clients are protected. In the UK there is a futures-like segregation requirement with trust accounts - sounds rather safe...

Its still the case, you are an unsecured creditor in the case of a FX firm bankruptcy (except if you deal with a bank). UK is way safer from that perspective (and its the center of the world as far as fx is concerned anyways).

So who are these guys in the podcast? Theres not a lot of info in the website..