Yes, you probably trade micro lots on some individual account and you're not particular as to your broker. Some of us, however, use corporations to trade with and are very particular as to the broker we trade with. Opening up accounts willy nilly is ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Like you said, that only applies to STP. Yeesh, you just argued my point for me!

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

They ARE telling you how to trade. That's exactly what the hedging rule is! A rule on how you're allowed to trade with a single account.

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Have you actually read what I've wrote?? Will it help if I bold face? This rule will force brokers to NOT EXECUTE TRADES because they will not be able to ADJUST THEM after the fact. This will result in a DROP IN LIQUIDITY. Better would be a way to ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

What this rule means is that a potentially profitable trade will go unfilled because the bucketshop can't adjust the price. What if there are 100 such instances a day when you could post a trade and only if the bucketshop were allowed to adjust the ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Yes, obviously, but they're pimping their UK branch based on the ability to hedge. "Alternative Option If you wish to continue hedging, you can trade through Forex Capital Markets Limited (FXCM UK), which is regulated by the Financial Services ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

the price adjustment rule is worse than the hedging rule. The price adjustment rule means only that brokers are going to have to avoid quoting a lot of liquidity for fear that that they can not make a best effort approach to matching it. What the ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

straw man, straw man, straw man.. You're arguing against imaginary ideas you've obviously hallucinated that someone has posted. Doesn't that feel kinda silly? Force marketmakers into bankruptcy? non issues like a couple of points of slippage across ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Good riddance to YOU.

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Your pseudo should be ForexFUD. NFA is just a pylon organization out to obsolete / make useless american forex companies. The day of the US Forex company is rapidly coming to a close. All this latest change is saying that you're sheep if you have an ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

The whole point of trading is the evolution of smart money. This is self evident. Unless those trades are somehow manipulating markets, abusing inside info, or causing systemic risk .. then the NFA should leave the ***** alone. There are situations, ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

I agree, NFA is losing credibility as a serious organization that we should pay attention to.

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

I disagree. I think FXDD is the only one that is actually doing the rational thing here, rather than acting like a lamb to slaughter, or a lemming off a cliff. You should avoid the brokers that are adopting the NFA rule. Market makers are allowed to ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

How frequently can you post trades? Can you expire them automatically if the market moves?

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

As has been stated several times. The issue isn't risk management. The issue is having to drop money in non insured broker accounts or to liquidate stable investments just to trade with.

Leverage reducing begins

Yeah, I'd like to hear the answer to this one as well.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

How come none of the other brokers are required to do this? Did you do something to piss off the BC government?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I agree about Duka .. but IB? Do they really have that inferior amount of liquidity that justifies your premium? I still wish I knew why you guys won't open up in BC. That's pretty frustrating..

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Lowering leverage increases risk, it doesn't decrease risk. It makes us hold more funds inside of a broker we don't completely trust but provides profitable trading. My guess is they're using lower leverage to weed out the smaller brokerages because ...

IBFX

You're assuming that the other brokers who charge less are inferior. Perhaps you should explain why you feel that way rather than resorting to unhelpful condescension.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction