Bear would have had to have been 1000times bigger to take down SIPC. Not a chance in hell Bear could have taken them down. God help us if a firm takes down SIPC. I mentioned transparency due to the fact that the public has access to their annual and ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Mike, I am glad that you have asked this question. Your question is a good one and very relevant but also very hard to answer. First, it is important to figure out why Bear was on its way to bankruptcy and why the Fed and JPMorgan stepped in. Bear ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Justin, I appreciate your lengthy reply to my last post. Your effort is surely noted. However, I do have some more questions regarding your reply. I dont have enough time as of right now to reply to your post because of all of the information you ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Frank, It would actually be harder to go through FX-Auto or Collective 2. First of all those companies are not going to look at you until you have some sort of track record or unless you are going to bring some clients that are going to deposit a ...

Info on starting to managed account

There are a lot of things you should do before managing money. However, if you had a client or two who want you to trade their funds today you could get it done today. FCM's or FDM's have their own qualifications you have to meet in order to manage ...

Info on starting to managed account

Forexmoments, What is the real price in an OTC market. You are missing the fundamentals of this market. MT4 shops, what ever you want to call them are market makers. They make the market for you. If you dont like their market there are plenty of ...

MT4 favorite Brokers - as low as 1 Pip spreads

Bear Sterns, First of all, you need to learn to read the full thread before you weigh in. Big firms like REFCO have been mentioned. Second of all, anyone that had money deposited with Bear Sterns didnt lose a dime.

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

TraderKGB, Thanks for pointing out a few of my errors from your experience. However, I am curious about Dukas - I thought you could see when you traded who the counterparty was? You are saying this is not correct right? I understand the market depth ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Interesting articles about MFGlobal and their current stock price. What a day for them and a lot of other financials! url url

MFGlobal

Great! Sounds like the only issue was a lack in communication.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Drummer, Generally speaking the only way ECN brokers and Futures brokers are similar is; they both bring buyers and sellers together for a fee. However, currency futures and spot fx is are two different products. There are a couple of different ...

MBTrading vs HotspotFX vs Dukascopy vs IB

Karl, Not sure I am following you here... did your issue get resolved or not? How was it resolved?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

There a lot of differences. However, this post is talking about spot equivalent futures. You can find out more about them by clicking on this link. http://www.usfe.com/ The USFE currency futures seem to be better then the regular CME currency ...

USFE Fx Spot Equivalent Futures?

what are the swap rates on gbpusd with ODL?

MBTrading vs HotspotFX vs Dukascopy vs IB

You can go right to the NFA website and click on file a complaint. However, maybe you should try and speak with Justin first maybe MB just made a mistake. I am sure he can probably help you get some answers. Let us know how it goes. Best of luck

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I totally agree with you Moe. Do you know of any other options besides Oanda for smaller accounts or would you say that Oanda is the best option?

MBTrading vs HotspotFX vs Dukascopy vs IB

Justin, Fair enough! I had stated in my post that I could not be sure how true the statement was. However, FX firms do not have to have to say they are trading against the client on their web page until June 1 according to the NFA. So MB does not ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Drummer, Since you dont have a large account that certainly limits your options. I think your best option would be Oanda if you dont have a large account. Execution is very good but slippage with them can sometimes be a problem. However, I do think ...

MBTrading vs HotspotFX vs Dukascopy vs IB

FXTrader, What exactly are you looking for? What are the most important features that are needed for your trading? There are some very good brokers out there and there are a lot of bad ones. Maybe if you give us some more information one of us can ...

FXCM Discussion

No MB was certainly not the only one today. Justin do you have anything to say about my post earlier?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction