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IB always said IB UK customers were covered. I guess this was B.S. Can anyone confirm one or the other ?

When asked about SIPC protection for IB UK customers, IB reps say SIPC applies to all IB customers including IB UK. I suspected that was not true and customers would actually be covered by FSCS. So which is it ? It appears I was right, no SIPC protection for non IB LLC accounts . IB UK...

I don't get it, I did listen to the guy , often I don't as I find it painful and his speeches are a joke. But he sounded really dovish to me , didn't he say he was ready to expand ? (which I found insane). I didn' t really listen to commentaries but I don't think people thought he was...

Getco profits down 90% wow ! I have to ask myself if that story doesn't have any bit of PR in it, I am sure the HFT community would rather tell the world, "hey we don't make that much money, life is tough if you regulate more, we 'll stop creating jobs" . But beyond that, you don't have...

Well I thought this EA thing was the best thing since sliced bread... You mean they don't necessarily make you any money ? Seriously you have to be kidding, a free system that is profitable ? An inexpensive system that is profitable ? On what planet are you living ? You will be lucky if...

They are brilliant guys in their theoritical field indeed, and they are selected because they will serve their masters. Look at what happens to dissenters and loose cannons in central banks, they end up leaving. "not doing anything" is not an experiment, it's letting nature run its course...

He should not have embarked on QE 2, certainly not QE infinity. He probably should have started normalizing back in 2010, now he 's in deep trouble. He should just recognize that there is only so much he and the Fed can do, but that would go against everything he has done in his academic...

1% per year in admin fee ? That's huge, all your mgmt fee goes into that pretty much ... Doesn't sound right .

IMO this is a bounce. The investors aren't going to get great returns, some will get creamed if they stick around for too long.

Who profits from bitcoin ? Someone must be profiting from issuing new bitcoins at those sky high prices, if so that is akin to selling securities without a license and a potential ponzi scheme.

there is a big problem with your theory ; this bull market had the same leader as in the previous one, and they are way up in the stratosphere (price wise). This is not a "new" bull.

dev , you are a joke (it's obvious you don't know what you are talking about), as for the OP well draw your conclusions (carry trade, low DD's, 20% ROI), let me laugh. Personnaly I find carry a terrible and dumb strat but hey to each his own, and you can make money with it, if you like the risk.

The OP is probably a fraud, pretty obvious to me (and FYI Soros was not a CTA and CTA's generally do not use funny mentals. )

I see regulators aren't better in Canada than elsewhere, they can't even answer a simple question for the rules they made confuse them as much as anybody else.

I don't why but I smell something fishy. Is this a joke ? You leverage up on carry trades that you keep for years ? That's not being an FX trader ... you trade FX based on funny mentals, you manage a few mil and have 10 K plus a month in data subscriptions ? wtf , a bad week is 500 pips lol...

You are saying 500% per year is average or normal ? I guess some firms make that kind of returns but I can't see how this would be the norm. After all many hedge funds run HFT strats now and they aren't anywhere near those numbers. Also I was just reading excerpts from a book on HFT (more like a...

There is some truth to what toolazy says, quantitative trading strategies and technology do not necessarily give you an edge over the long run. HFT edge relies a lot on the current state of regulation and will also fade as the inefficiencies they exploit get arbitraged away. And judging the...

Bottomline, what kind of returns do the best and average HFT firms make ?

USA is becoming France ?

big deal, they are just back where they were in the 90's ..., a little worse off. The RE bubble created plenty of jobs that are now gone. Also I understand there is a large underground economy in Spain, so being unemployed doesn't mean you survive only on govt checks ... Like all moribund...