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http://www.tradingmarkets.com/authors/Kurt_Eckhardt I found all your articles to be excellent, good value. A pity you stopped writing them.

April 9, 2013 CFTC Orders Connecticut-based Interactive Brokers LLC, a Registered Futures Commission Merchant, to Pay a $225,000 Civil Monetary Penalty Firm failed to supervise its employees, failed to maintain sufficient U.S. dollars in customer segregated accounts, and failed to compute...

This assumes the strategies of successful traders rely exclusively on looking at charts. That's a big assumption, in my view. Since the beginning of the stock markets, people have made money trading manually. Over hundreds of years not much has changed in that respect. Technology is vastly...

Some interesting behaviour of traders at UBS was revealed in the recent trial... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-21/adoboli-s-fate-decided-at-wine-bar-as-ubs-market-bets-unravelled.html I wonder how typical this is of IB traders generally? Anyone who has worked at a similar position...

Thinking about this more, here's a couple of ideas for monitoring financial health. Ratio of excess net capital to net capital required. It seems the better firms have excess net capital exceeding net capital required. According to my calculations in the current report the mean FCM had...

Yes, that was an obvious sign. However, I can't see too many signs of trouble in PFG's latest report. They had excess capital of $10m.

What aspects of the CFTC financial reports showed MFG in trouble or do you regard as particularly important as signs of trouble? Adjusted net capital? Excess net capital? Ratio between excess net capital/adjusted net capital and customers assets in segregation? Changes between...

I take your point. However, my response would be as follows. (1) I never requested my account to be moved to their office in Australia, this was done forcibly without my consent. (2) The securities regulations in Australasia are not different from Europe in this respect. The regulators...

Sometimes I move to different countries. Normally this is not a problem. Most brokers simply accept your change of address notification without giving you further hassles. However, I have now discovered that optionsXpress behave in an outrageous fashion if you move to Australia/New Zealand...

The answer is not a mentor, nor a job. The answer is you and the process. You need to understand the right questions first.

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It may depend on the way you trade. For me, I would find it difficult most of the time to post trades in here. It's a pretty hectic trading day and I find all my energy and concentration needs to be focused on the market.

Very difficult day to trade IMHO. Almost straight down for 27.5 points without any decent retracement.

There is some support for your argument from the following article: http://www.safehaven.com/article-2035.htm

He's usually early on his calls, but he is often proved right in the end. He was short metals a long time before the top of the last bull market in commodities, but it was a great trade eventually.

Rogers Says the Crude Bull Market Has `Years to Go' (Update1) By Todd Zeranski and Betty Liu June 5 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, said the increase in the price of crude oil has ``years to go'' as known sources of petroleum are dwindling. ``I know that unless...

I use quotetracker. I find it good.

Making live calls on ET is problematic, to say the least. If you are a beginner and want some feedback on your trading I can see the point. Then you should set up a journal and post your trading rules and details of trades so that they can be critiqued by more experienced traders...

Successful traders don't think that way. They are risk takers and not afraid to lose money. In fact, their confidence level in their own trading is so high that they often believe the safest place for the majority of their money is in their personal account or fund. I would say most...

Nothing new. A couple of important points I thought. (1) This subprime crisis is no where near over. Soros is expecting at least 12 months more of falling house prices. I have been thinking along similar lines myself. As I believe it takes time for the truth to come out and we don't yet...