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Anybody has any experience with SUCDEN and their SMART platform. Primarily looking for commodity and FX futures. They've been around a long time and are legit from the FSA's perspective, but I wanted to know personal anecdotes (not listed on the brokers list at ET).

they have issues with people born in baghdad. I know I know. I'm only blaming them for my parents' mistake of giving birth to me in Baghdad. It should have either been in London or in a small obscure town that their compliance department wouldn't recognise.

I'm a loser because I lost the account potential with the cheap and clean IB, and now I have to have several separate accounts for the FX and futures trades. IB lost tens of thousands in commissions from a customer. We'll both survive, me with a little less money (extra charges), and they...

Born in baghdad (see that's the whole problem that IB have with me). Raised in Europe. Had I been born in "nina" or "kufa" then IB would not have batted an eyelid since my passport DOES NOT state "born in Iraq". IF they hadn't recognised the town name they would have let my account pass...

So from knowing one Iraqi (among 27 million) you came to this conclusion about me. Would you accept similar conclusions to be reached regarding the entire US population based on a sample of one?

Oh I agree with you. The only thing is, my "crime" was not being born in Iraq. It was being born in "Baghdad". Let me put it another way, my parents were born in "Samawah" (a small city in southern Iraq), yet my father has an account with bank of america (opened in 2002, after 9/11) and Citibank...

Well, the posters here can be as rude as they want to me, I'm just an anonymous "lowlife", but to IB I was a potential customer with whom they would have made considerable amounts in commissions. As a customer I've never been treated like this by a supplier who stood to make so much money out...

I checked out the OFAC list. The UK wasn;t there, and even Iraq is exempt, with the only "iraqis" on the list being members of the former regime (who are certainly NOT British citizens) http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/faq/answer.shtml#50...

So the patriot act doesn't apply to OANDA or ThinkorSwim? PS. There's a lovely golf club right next to my home http://www.dubaigolf.com/egc/

Honestly, as I wrote in my first post, I had supplied them with ALL my personal information and financial information. Compliance (if they are doing their jobs) would have verified my information with the UK authorities, the UAE authorities, My bank, my landlord, the Roads and Transport...

Thank you for your constructive and polite reply. I haven't sent any money through to TOS either just in case my account is (subsequently) frozen by them. It seems that I'm stuck with the (more expensive) European based brokers for now.

No need to be suspicious. IB have my complete address, my passport (that they can verify with the British Embassy), my banking and credit card details with everything I bought (hell even which restaurants I dined in). They have my driving licence and record and can see if I ever had any points...

Shockingly enough In all my travels around the world I hadn't encountered the above. True I hadn't been to the US though, but Europe / Middle East / Africa /Asia has been trouble free for me for the past 3 decades... that's why I was so surprised by IB's attitude (not to mention the difference...

Thanks for the replies. The posters calling me a terrorist / lowlife / ad nauseum were certainly illuminating. Thankfully I have many friends and former classmates and colleagues from the US so I know that such views are not representative of the US population. I have several points to...

Dear All This is a message of warning to other posters from the Middle East (and possibly other regions) regarding the account opening procedures and attitude by IB. I'm a British citizen of Iraqi origin (left in 1981). I live in Dubai and tried opening an account with IB (due to the...