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While I could quibble with a number of things in the article and reach different conclusions than the poster does he has done us all a service and posted an article EVERY TRADER MUST READ! http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=232268 When all is said and done you do have...

Captain, If you are trading the Asian session that is just the way it is. From the 8:20 AM CME open till the 11:30 London/Europe EST close is your best liquidity. That overlap between Europe and the US is the liquidity key.

You're kidding, right? This country is falling apart at a rate that is stunning. Turn? It takes some level of leadership to turn it around and these clowns can't run an elevator never mind a sophisticated industrial country. Both sides of the aisle are insane!

UK futures & FX customers fared badly in the Lehman collapse. US customers lost zero but UK clients -- mostly hedge funds -- bit the bullet for a billion plus.

Why wouldn't you be an unsecured creditor of the bank? Are FX accounts at the bank a deposit account and FDIC insured?

Ultimately raising small $$ is more of a pain than it is worth. These numbers show why.

I'm really not saying that or even anything even remotely similar. What I am saying is that there are a great many intangibles that go into a wise investment decision. The biggest of those bring the person who needs to make the proposition work. Those that have known you all your life are...

apex ... the details depend on each specific exchange. You need to research those exchanges you trade on.

Insurance is clearly the way to go ... I don't disagree. I like the SIPC model and it would be fairly easy to implement. The reason FX "is even more of a problem" is historically FX brokers were not required to segregate so you had (have?) straight up counter party risk and no preference in...

I only trade on domestic US exchanges but I wish you well in your research.

If you really believe in your system you need to leverage the trust that friends and family already have in you. The other posters are correct when they say no one with sophistication will back you. Take another six months at least and see if you can continue to produce those returns with...

Clearly segregation of client funds has been shown to present significant risk in futures. Yet there is another level of risk that is not commonly understood. US segregation rules apply only when you are trading on US Exchanges. Once you use exchanges located in other jurisdictions you fall...

I do intraday swing trades in ES and VERY little scalping. The speed seems quite adequate to me but I have no real feel for what is good or unacceptable for my type of trading. I would like to know how this stakes up and if I should seek a better connection if I intend to scalp more regularly...

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I understand IB allocates at execution but other firms seem to have to allocate post execution. If you allocate "post trade" what's to stop the account manager from giving a bit (or more than a bit) more profit to account A and a bit more loss to B?

While those numbers are too small to warrant top tier attention they certainly are soliciting accounts of that size. The numbers are large enough that you can speak with any of the top players -- Newedge is clearly one of them -- and be treated cordially.

I trade ES intraday and, except for very occasional options trades in oil and the euro, only ES. For a long time I felt that the big overnight gaps meant I was missing opportunities. Over time I came to realize that frequently those gaps create lucrative opening hour opportunities -- RTH works...

Harris is a fine bank. Credit Ratings** BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. Moody’s S&P Fitch DBRS Rating Outlook Stable Stable Stable Stable Senior Debt A1 A+ AA- AA (low) BANK OF MONTREAL Moody’s S&P Fitch DBRS Rating Outlook Stable Stable Stable Stable Senior...

Newedge is owned by Societe General and Credit Agricole. They are not becoming the biggest player in the arena -- by some metrics they are and have been the biggest player around. Typically firms in this league -- two notches up from IB -- are impossible to open up with unless your account...