Cleanup Report submitted to FF. If you're going to steal my words, you could at least credit the source.

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This is a copy-and-paste of my post 208 in this thread on 05/02. Why are you re-posting my post under your own screen name?

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I've heard this before but nobody ever came forward with any evidence. Look, I have nothing to do with the spreadbetting industry, I am making a profit through SB trading and have had no problems with the firms I have spreadbetted with. BUT I don't ...

FX Trading in Europe under threat - act now

Anyone looked into the LCG suggestion that SB clients can apply for professional account status with them, keep the current leverage rates regardless of what ESMA decide for SB?

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Depends where his stops were.........

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Its spreadbetting.

FX Trading in Europe under threat - act now

Its not really important unless you're wanting to switch to SB.

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I don't use a broker I have a spreadbetting account. I'm completely happy with them.

FX Trading in Europe under threat - act now

Analogies are OK but if the best argument you can find to demonstrate your ideas on an issue today are correct is to show that some other people's ideas on another issue a long time ago were correct, then you are probably scraping the barrel. But, ...

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No, just a firm you've traded with who scammed you and what happened.

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Please give an example of "Wild West" behaviour by a UK-based and UK-regulated spreadbetting firm. I definitely want to know as I definitely don't want to trade with them.

FX Trading in Europe under threat - act now

Get him Spreadbetter!

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Well, its encouraging that you care so maybe your compassion for fellow humans is such that you want to see private retail traders given more protection. Say the ESMA proposals go through (or even if they don't) what would you recommend a UK-based ...

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We're not talking about DDT. We're talking about UK financial spreadbetting, CFD trading and binary options. That's what the ESMA proposals relate to, not insecticide control.

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Great work by the 13,000+ people who responded to the ESMA consultation, 98% of whom were negative. Good work by IG in helping publicise the proposals and organise opposition. Bad work by LCG who didn't do this. Strangely energetic activity by ...

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It shouldn't be banned because I am making money from it. There is no business venture on earth that has a 100% success rate, most new restaurants fail faster than you can say stop-loss, yet strangely no ignorant busy-bodies want them banned.

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I'm retired, I receive only a local government pension plus what I make from trading.

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Please don't call me dude, its juvenile.

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Agreed. Why else would anyone give a hoot if not to see some competitors eliminated?

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Good question. I found this might be useful - url It lists about 25 countries and a few states. The countries don't include anywhere in the west but there are a couple of Canadian states. But forex is not completely banned in all these ...

FX Trading in Europe under threat - act now