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The thing with Refco and Rogers was that his funds were deposited in Refco Capital Markets (which were not protected when firm filed) used for offshore prime brokerage as opposed to being held with Refco LLC, the derivatives brokerage's futures business. If funds were deposited properly (Refco...

OK, maybe I'm slow today, but I interpret this differently: column e: Customers' 4d(a)(2) Seg Required: This represents the total amount of funds that a FCM is required to segregate on behalf of customers (emphasis mine) who are trading on designated contracts markets (DCMs) and derivatives...

Pls refer to linked info on FCM's, especially the column on customer segregated funds: http://www.cftc.gov/marketreports/financialdataforfcms/

If it's where they're incorporated.

The registered in Bermuda aspect only affects tax and bankruptcy law. If the firm is registered with the CFTC, no matter where that firm may be domiciled, whether Europe or Asia or the Carribean, it must follow the same guidelines as US domestic base securities firms in terms of standards...

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"Hey, we're suing Man Financial. Ok, who wants to be our client first?" Fucking trolls!

Take a look at ButtonTrader, one of a few vendors who provide 3rd party front ends to trade with IB. Also look at Ninja Trader.

Revealed: the dirty tricks of rogue traders By Robert Winnett Last Updated: 2:03am GMT 21/03/2008 A hedge fund based in London set up a "dirty-tricks unit" to manipulate share prices and get illicit information on companies in an attempt to make millions on the stock market, an insider...

If you just filled out the online app. last night then it has not been reviewed as yet. When it is, they will notice the conflict with the state chosen and the zip and ask for clarification before they allow you to do a thing.

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Do you even know what a bank guarantee or letter of credit or bank custodial relationship is? All three of these options are funds kept in YOUR bank account at YOUR bank of choice. This isn't about your 5k account with your 400:1 leverage that YOU are used to, but hey, don't let facts get in the...

In light of recent events and volatility in world markets, what's the proper way to set up account funding to trade currencies using a bank guarantee/letter of credit or custodian services? I know that Dukas will do this for 1MM and up, but what US banks can or will do this for less than 5-10MM...

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Not just IB. Hotspot is running wider than usual too. I also have a demo of Dukas on one of my machines to check them out and also notice that their spreads are running fairly wide also. Right now staring at 5/6 spread on USd/JPY. It's the banks. Not a whole lot of liquidity out there tonite...

With the discount rate cut and Bear Sterns news the dollar is getting killed: EUR 1.58+ JPY 96.75 CHF .9800 I thought the dollar was hitting a floor, but all that's been thrown out the window. Today is just a WOW!!

British Billionaire Joseph Lewis bought north of 11MM shares of Bear at average price of 107/sh for 1.2B USD. Today that stake is worth a little over 22MM USD.

Did Bear get a capital infusion from one of those SWF last year, and if so who? What major player is going to take a MAJOR hit on this news?

Tomorrow starts the shareholder lawsuit games.