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Anybody cares to explain why what MS did was wrong and what could be their economic motivation of doing those? http://www.futuresmag.com/News/2010/4/Pages/Morgan-Stanley-agrees-to-14-million-civil-penalty.aspx

Looks the new law is requiring all of them to be reported in 15min? http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine/news/2026292/cftc-trade-rules-create-winners-curse

Do those OTC trades have to be reported to CFTC within 5 min and counted in daily volume?

I just wanted to understand the business of the brokers and the institutional clients better...

What do you mean? It makes sense to learn what's illegal and what's legal for educational purposes... What about Moore Capital? In their trade with GS their practice was deemed as legal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704289504575312452485699806.html?dbk But in...

Thanks. In fact I was wondering what can a broker illegally do facing a 100K lots WTI order? And what can a broker legally do facing such an order? What are the lines between legal and illegal practices? (assuming the broker is really greedy)

Anybody could explain what Optiver did and why they got sued by CFTC?

It's hypothetical of course... and of course I am not a broker - I am a retail level trader... Just wanted to understand the practices and what are legal and what are illegal... Anybody please explain the practices?

Will I be able to pre-determine today's settle using my huge order? And can I do anything on the option front? (but that's still considered as front-running, I guess)

of course I can think of buying in front of that on my own account, and then sell at settle, ... but that's front-running and is illegal I think... What else can I do? Any thoughts? Can I use the "Trade-at-Settle" order type?

Lets say you received an large order that asks you to complete buying 100K lots at settle(of course you quote the client the settle price), what would you do? My feeling is that you probably just wait until settle and dump the orders to the market, because you are effectively the settle...

Former bank/floor traders: I work for you and pay you money Hi all, You might be a former bank/floor trader, and are enjoying your early retirement. :=) Could you please help a young guy - me... I am really interested in the practical areas of energy trading and market making (OTC...

I am looking into subscribing some good research reports/analysis... Could anybody please give me some pointers? Thanks a lot!

Could you please elaborate more? Thx

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