I'm from Taiwan and living in Columbus Ohio for 20 years. I've been a full time stock trader for 2 years with Bright and became the manager of the new Columbus office last month.
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You are currently living AND trading in China? What can you trade? How do you trade? What firm do you use? How do you get paid? How do you convert the currency? Do you keep it all? Can you trade the US markets?
There is no restriction of sending money to China, just bring it out.
How do you convert the currency?
At the local bank.
Do you keep it all?
As much as I can
Can you trade the US markets?'
Yes.
Biggest problem trading from China is opening a bank account outside the country (Hong Kong is OK) to fund the account initially and the trading hours (now exactly 12 hours difference from NY time) and a fairly minor issue is lag time for the intenet (0.5 seconds around the planet and back not a problem unless you scalp or arb (I don't)