Broker Leverage Revisions, New NFA BrainJuice
NFA is at it once again, and this is putting me off. Under the new Obama Administration, CFTC and the NFA is having lots of brain juice lately.
Well, in my opinion, the NFA is a bunch of regulatory bureaucratic crap that creates more confusion and regulations based impedance to an otherwise already messy and complicated [...]
NFP Trade Setup – 5th June 09
Trading the NFP has been both tough and unpredictable in the last few months. The market does seem to have a constant pre-news perspective about the release and we have been having a mixed bag of results of late. Often, when the market has been hit with a large unemployment number, this will mean weakness [...]
IBFX first to impose CFTC’s Hedging regulation
Less than 3 days since CFTC imposed its new regulation on disallowing hedging of positionsIBFX has been first(or one of the first i know) who have imposed this regulation onto their trading platforms. Though not with immediate effect, they have put word out of such upcoming changes and are advising of the steps/changes to take [...]
CFTC passes NFA’s ban on hedging
I am not sure how many of you will be actually affected by this but i know of many professional traders and trading systems that make use of hedging primarily as their engine behind their trading systems. All is not dead with hedging though. You would need a non-NFA regulated(probably non-US based) broker to keep [...]
ACM In Fraud Probe
Police raid Geneva forex firm in fraud probe
by Malcolm Curtis
Geneva – 03 April 2009 | 18:05
EXCLUSIVE: A squad of 28 police officers raid the downtown Geneva offices of currency trading company ACM and seize documents, a computer and other evidence in a suspected financial fraud case. Swisster discovers the unprecedented affair, being directed by an [...]
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