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No to get on my soapbox, but currency futures in the US are 50 to 1 leverage and you see the carnage. ES futures many brokers offer at $500 day trade margins which is roughly 200 to 1 leverage. Any concerns here? Give enough people a gun and some of them are going to shot their face off.

Interactive Brokers - $120m in debits - http://www.ft.com/intl/fastft/263202/interactive-brokers-clients-take-120m-loss-on-franc Alpari UK - insolvent - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/16/uk-markets-forex-alpari-idUKKBN0KP10720150116

Cardale is going back to Ohio State. In the press conference we walked in to, "Started from the bottom now we're here..." Classic.

Not sure why but when I see this boat I think of a Frank Llyod Wright design - www.easyreadernews.com/64928/growing-up-in-a-frank-lloyd-wright-house

Agree.

I am not really a fan of this look. I am sure it is cool on inside with technology but I prefer a more traditional look.

Reach out to Advantage Futures. They will lease you space which will include access to their internet pipe which is extremely fast. Also, if your trading goes bad they have a room which you can go meditate which will hopefully get you back on track! All kidding aside, it is a pretty good deal...

Pippi436 has it right. If you are using TT, Advantage is the only way to go. Advantage does a crazy amount of volume and my guess is most of that is on TT. I generally like to support the little guy (AMP) but when Advantage has 3.1 billion (yes billion) contracts traded, you can't over look...

Just curious and trying to understand, is it still the same technology team that is in place when you took over Mirus? In a post you wrote: ""Furthermore, the following changes have occurred on my watch: I have thrown BigTick into the trash The BigTick development team is no longer with us...

Yeah, there is certainly some quirkiness with RobinHood. It is a cash only account, which probably explains part of the reason the new account app is so basic (i.e. no-margin). Also, they pass-though the fees. I don't mind this but I wish they would been a bit more transparent about it. Nothing...

doesn't it seems counter intuitive that you will get better commissions if you go through an introducing broker? This seems odd to me that if you go through a middleman (an introducing broker) rather than go direct to an FCM you would get a better rate. I am sure you are right but shouldn't we...

The term is illegal. When you place a trade your broker will identify you to the exchange in FIX TAG 50. Being long and short at two different firms will certainly cause your broker to get a vague email from the exchange asking lots of questions about your account. If you broker is smart they...

it seems so short sighted. When the CME is interested in courting firms like Schwab and TD Ameritrade to try to bring in new futures traders who are trading stock they also place a tax on retail traders. How could they justify this other than greed. If they were truly interested in growing the...

After reading the CME's rules, I am a non-professional. However, I have futures accounts at 3 separate firms. The CME talked about a process where you could net the fees across firms. Does anyone know how to do this or am I stuck paying 3 futures firms for market data? Clearly the CME can't...

AlphaMetrix was the talk of the town. What a waste of opportunity. http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7085-14

Google Hangouts.

If I upgrade now do I get the Ginsu Knives too?

I am not sure they "suck" but it seems like a place in flux. I don't think they are even called OEC anymore are they? When I type in www.openecry.com, I get FuturesOnline. So it is, OEC, Openecry, FuturesOnline, Gain or what? It just seems like they have an identity crisis so maybe that is...

So I got the account open and funded. Once you download the app and try to trade it takes you through all the standard suitability questions, experience, income, available funds, etc. Pretty slick.

Good point. I again, glad to have my Robinhood account open. This will be interesting to follow and see in the future if the new account application changes due to regulatory pressure. What is funny, is look at a futures application. They do everything but draw blood for a DNA test. Just one of...