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    Futures Account with insurance?

    From what I have found out, at least in USA, client fund are separate from firm fund. But all clients fund are in one bank(s) account. In case of FXCM, it is not all safe in last week event.
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    Futures Account with insurance?

    At least not in FXCM. I always thought security accounts are safe because of the insurance.
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    Futures Account with insurance?

    Is IB account with the ablity to trade future cover under the protection.
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    forex firm failures vs. forex firm survivors

    Probably the number of client's assets, technologies, goodwill.
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    AMD or Intel for Trading with 4 monitors with eSignal for around 20 charts?

    Sometime the bottleneck is limit by the memory or disk I/O. I am not been following up with AMD, but I would say got for Intel. It might run cooler than AMD. AMD is around because Intel let it hang around.
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    EUR/CHF wipeout/margin call ... negative balance ... what to do?

    I think happen to Gain Capital too, not sure how their business is setup, could be a dealer too. They turn a profit on this mess.
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    EUR/CHF wipeout/margin call ... negative balance ... what to do?

    This is CHF future (USD.CHF) from IB charts Anyone has tick chart. So the announcement was made around 2.30 time. Then someone out there decide to run all the stops because they have information everyone is shorting CHF. Other pairs got hit is strange, NZD/CHF, USD/CHF...
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    IB loses $120M from Swiss currency move

    Long weekend, market open tuesday morning :P
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    IB loses $120M from Swiss currency move

    FXCM was open pre market , keep ticking all the way down to almost <$1, then halted for the regular trading sessions. Reopen after close.
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    Post FXCM - News and the Regulatory Landscape

    What about the other side who made a lot of billions? Anyone know of who benefit the most from this move.
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    Quick question for the newbie Forex scalpers

    Not worth it at all.
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    Wow, oil stocks getting torched.

    IMHO, if I were the deep pocket producer/exporter/importer, I will switch from producing and lock on price at $8-15 for future delivery. So very unlikely price head there, if it does, it is a lifetime opportunity with good risk/reward. If @8, a CL max loss is $8000(unlikely to go 0), while the...
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    Wow, oil stocks getting torched.

    Not jumping it until crude stabilize first. Anything can happen just like 2009, from 140s down to 30s. This time won't be different. It is just a game control by some big guys at the back. Best ride their coattail and not against them.
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    Wow, oil stocks getting torched.

    CL Future open -1.4, All the charts broken. Are we heading to $40s
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    Wow, oil stocks getting torched.

    A few more of this http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-30/brevan-howard-said-to-close-commodity-hedge-fund-after-losses.html will take everything lower.
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    Wow, oil stocks getting torched.

    A lot of longs gonna got margin call.
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    Successful traders: why don't you move to a 0% capital gains tax country?

    Forget about driving in Singapore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf7A5j2QO5E
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    Advice on Buying New Monitors (Sore Eyes)

    Too much screen time. Take a break in between.
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    2014 World Cup in Brazil

    Where is South America, Brasil is not doing well on the World Cup.
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    TWS on Linux - What Am I Doing Wrong?

    If you are serious about trading why bother with Linux. You spend more time trying to figure what is wrong than figuring what to trade.
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