IG, cmc, City index's overall owners..? all they're buying is a database of active(ish) retail punters. I suppose it's all down to acquisition costs, if it costs 600 quid of marketing to get one active trader, and you can buy 6000 for a million it ...

Fifty suitors bid for remains of FX firm Alpari UK

Wow, any bets on how long the Bilderberger/Goldman Sachs banco politico elite will take to get tanks on the streets, place Athens under martial law and grab power back?

Syriza Rides Anti-Austerity Wave to Decisive Victory in Greece

Absolute nonsense.

FXCM Provides Business Update

I'll repeat, any business that only makes a business by exploiting its workforce should be out of business. Who will hire? Those who pay well and treat their employees correctly.

Soros: ECB QE means inequality and asset bubbles

Yes really, I've seen first hand how stops are (and were) blown through/ignored. You've also got to realise that many institutional businesses use the likes of FXCM for hedging their currency exposure and use stops, it's not just retail traders who ...

FXCM Provides Business Update

Another ridiculous comment failing to comprehend how the events unfolded. Many traders will have been short the Swiss franc with stops in place. Those stops were useless in such an event and many retail punters saw their platforms frozen as they ...

FXCM Provides Business Update

Why not? Look, it's this simple; if you're only able to stay in business, or operate a business because you exploit your workforce then you have no right to be in business. Let businesses like that die. If you can't (or won't) pay a wage that offers ...

Soros: ECB QE means inequality and asset bubbles

Christ on a bike..talk about tldr. Almost makes you nostalgic for that Nigerian bag of wind who used to plague this section, the reason so many fukced off FF.

Soros: ECB QE means inequality and asset bubbles

Good post, you're a sound bloke and no mistake.

Soros: ECB QE means inequality and asset bubbles

That's horseshit, if you had a wrong side bet on CHF you couldn't have avoided the carnage and let's not forget that many retail trader platforms can't/don't honour stops, because they're the plaything of the devil (your broker). Notwithstanding ...

FXCM Provides Business Update

By all sane measurements they're finished, hasn't prevented vulture and predatory funds picking over their carcass. The retail industry needs a cull and FXCM would be best just folding, there's nothing left, the good will has gone as has the money.

FXCM Provides Business Update

And the closer you are, to the top of the food chain were fiat is created, the more likely you are to be wealthy and influential.

The 12 Most Important Things Everyone Should Know About Money

Why? It's spot on. Here's a good myth that used to do the rounds in the uk; "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"....or a fukcin poor milkman

The 12 Most Important Things Everyone Should Know About Money

Infinity in a finite world? Continual creation of fiat currency? Think it through again.

A European Lost Decade?

Spot on and the 'central planners' knew this when we in the Western Hemisphere engaged in QE and zirp. After all, the only previous historical example we had, of its ineffectiveness and ultimate failure, was Japan.

A European Lost Decade?

The value of the dollar is now underpinned by the USA being in a perpetual state of war (arms sales) and by proxy, due to that continuos war, seizing others' mineral rights. The USA has replaced the 'gold standard' with the arms sales and mineral ...

'In USD We Trust'; We Stay Short EUR/USD - Morgan Stanley

Good posts from you on this thread, your age and wisdom shines through like a beacon through the overwhelming stupidity on evidence on this thread.

'In USD We Trust'; We Stay Short EUR/USD - Morgan Stanley

Consider this; the headline figure is meaningless as hundreds of thousands have used up their benefit entitlements therefore they're the 'missing in action' casualties.

Jobless Claims in U.S. Fall as Average at Eight-Year Low

And don't forget that The Benz can be bought on zero downpayment with a lease over 9 years in the USA, sub prime car finance has recently crossed the Atlantic to the uk too...

Paltry US credit-card debt growth signals restrained consumer

During its current war crime Israel is practicing social and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the Israeli fundamentalists have attempted to reduce Gaza to rubble many times in order to 'encourage' Gazans to give up their homeland and migrate. Their illegal ...

Israeli cabinet has decided to refuse ceasefire plan