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    Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

    Alsov very interessed CFTC position after today story with IBKR. Would reinforcement in future brokek's scene alsov ? To date pure agents of principals are AMTD ,OXPS,SWIM All with 1 bil $ + market value .OXPS and SWIM offer forex fx ,but not from future tradition...
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    SIPC protection in IB

    So SIPC has no limit? and as long as our account is under 100K in cash and 500K in equities, we are completely covered?? If thats the case, i am pretty comfortable ####################### Some companies ,as example SWIM offer until 25 mln$ per account through Lloyds
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    CME sells gold, silver business to NYSE Euronext

    ...Very interessed Gold (from author point of view) is mutiple 1000 years of tradition as investment ,Milton Friedman ideja in spot forex and CME Forex 30-40 years your respectfully
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    Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

    Very interessed ,how CFTC reacted on crach of Bear Sterns,public noted well respected company . Customer funds are not protected by Forex broker (ask commandatore ET member ,he received 40% after years of RefcoFx crash) ,no SIPC as by SEC broker ,no customer segregated funds as...
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    What's better forex or futures??

    Public noted Bear Stern crashed in one week as Refco .Oanda have 150 mln $ capital ,but funds are not SIPC insured as by SEC SIPC account(AMTD,OXPS ,SWIM;IBKR) and no segregated customer funds as by future broker ... ET member Commandatore received after years some 40% of he's Refco...
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    DARVAS trading

    A weekly income of $3,500 (according to the Time Magazine article)! This was in the fifties, how much would that be in today's money? Use part comparsion in GDP in current dollar USA GDP i n1960 in current $ was 526.4 bil $ Today more as 13500 bil $...
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    DARVAS trading

    Gentlemen Darvas Book with good chance good wrotten novell , without error All together -Dancing, Hotel Four Seasons , World travel, Thiokol( rocket was popular in 60's) and great fortune on merger . Your respectfully
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    "IB LLC" more busy than Timberhill w/ "counterparty" market making?

    Why you have a size limit per order of 5 million for forex if you are only the "broker" and do not take the other side ? (a lot of forex bucketshops have size limits to protect themselves ,not the client) Suspect,that more important is ,that al lecn forex reflect only fractional...
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    TOP Forex Traders

    ###################### ? # Participation in the game is free. Participants must give their valid contact It is paper money .By margin 1:100 paper money result some 4000% per month by http://www.capital.fr/jeux/1_devises/classement.asp or 5500 % in two month by trader2007...
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    What's better forex or futures??

    Your replies are very unclear, why don't you use the 'quote' button in the bottom right corner of the post you want to quote? And please write full sentences. --------------------- Answer is simple TRy real time demo with DOME and CME FIFO order by www.openecry.com...
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    What's better forex or futures??

    As for liquidity, my broker accepts orders up to 10m, that should be enough for anybody trading here. Talking about liquidity, maybe someone who trades futures can elaborate about the liquidity on certain futures pairs. Are pairs besides the major 4 even tradable (i.e. enough liquidity) at the...
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    TOP Forex Traders

    Z CoMaNdAtOrE from france, he did 650% in one month trading gold and euro...real money one anonymous from Australia performed 855% on 3000$ in fxcm king of the mini contest with GBP/JPY against 4000 participants trading record was sended before to et
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    What's better forex or futures??

    Pippi436 Registered: Jun 2006 Posts: 175 03-09-08 04:57 PM Lets just compare commissions and for a 1 mio. Eur/Usd transaction and assume a rate of 1.5300 and a 1 pip spread for everything (even tho on spot its often < 1 pip): IB Spot: $30.6 (20x1.5300) IB Future, bundled...
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    "IB LLC" more busy than Timberhill w/ "counterparty" market making?

    Pure agnet of principal - no proprietary trading desk ,no proprietary account,no income source from proprietary trading ,no the direct not through affiliate read 10-k by www.sec.gov for OXPS,AMTD,SWIM and compare with 10-k of GS,MER ,MS " China Wall " -that is for...
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    What's better forex or futures??

    *lower overall cost (spread including commissions). In each case it would more cost with forex . All SEC broker ,all future broker demanded commission . Integration commission in quote is source of manipulation . Lot of future brokers offer some 5 $ per R/T for one contract...
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    Forex Account vs Futures Account

    http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=70582
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    Minimum account balances

    Are you sure? i thought TD Ameritrade, OptionsXpress and ThinkorSwim are Retail Brokers that are the ones that trade against there clients and i never notice on there site that they state they are direct access. MB Trading clearly states its Direct Access meaning they just do the order they get...
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    Order Routing - Europe to USA

    Dear Sir 1.But how you will eliminate delay in USA internal ? Through different server ? 2. Was stated ,that Xtrader pro have 0 delay ,but it must be payed extra some 1000 $ per month Was stated that Xtrader have delay atleast 100 millisec Was promouted stock...
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    How to find a good broker ?

    thousands option trades often with trades of 50-100 lots or more at a time with IB, never had any problem. What's more if you divide your portfolio over many accounts you won't have the same flexibility as you are in risk of getting problems with de PDT-rule if you close and open positions too...
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    How to find a good broker ?

    cvds16 Registered: Jul 2002 Posts: 691 03-12-08 12:52 PM once again lots of bullshit by sss what do I care about the fact that IB has a market maker division ? I don't give a $$$$, they have chinese walls between their trading division and brokerage division. 1.Ask refferal...
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