How very fascinating... NFA met with Commissioner Sommers last week - were they summoned or did they invite themselves to ply the case because they feel like they are losing the battle? url I rather like Sommers, she is on the board of the ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

They are a very incestuous lot. Congress needs to do a thorough and deep purge of the lot of them. Unconsciousnable for any of the crowd who gave us the first mess to still be there, let alone putting any of them in charge of the next round. Quite ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Classic marketing strategy - create a consumer need, then fill it. Even better when the public have been brain-washed into thinking they have both personal and collective guilt for whatever the perceived issue is. Every time they pay up, they'll ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Government and the big money love the Gospel of Global Warming - it's a ready made brand new non-stop stream of taxation revenue that all the eco-socially conditioned little people have been sold so they will pay up without complaint. Commentators ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

What you see from the brokers publicly is a very different matter from what is likely happening privately. There will be an army of razor sharp very expensive lawyers pouring over the documents, busy drilling holes in anything and everything they ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Would you like your Gensler rare, well done, or just plain bloody all over? Here's something for all of us.... maybe you have to trade this market to understand how deep the bond is between traders, all of us blooded into this fraternity the hard ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Capital idea wwwin. Care to volunteer for the task? They probably don't have quite enough reading yet. Anything traders can do to further enlighten them would surely be most welcome? Congrats by the way to all who have contributed to ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

From Opie quoting Matt Taibbi (rolling stone) "Damn near anything written by Matt Taibbi is worth a look. He once (in)famously described Goldman Sachs as the "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

As strategy goes, it's rather transparent. Shift blame to the OTC market in its entirety, use the political onslaught to further garrison your own control for your own purposes, then enjoin and expand your power base internationally so you have ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

There's a lurking concern that the thoroughly obnoxious spoilt child (aka the Wall St inner sanctum on a quest to garner the universe for their own pet indulgences) is going to unravel in grand style at some point. There's something intrinsically ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Democratic free societies and the capitalist free market system are premised on the existence of the rule of law that limits boundaries and penalizes excursions beyond those boundaries in all aspects of human existence. Without the rule of law, ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

The fox (Gensler) is in charge of the hen house. How much more crazy can this get? Mind boggling. Hope the FXDC crew have their off-shore arrangements stitched up and ready to launch. This isn't going to end well.

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

It really is quite unfathomable isn't it? The financial institutions who pushed the capitalist envelope and brought us all undone, were rescued by breath-taking largesse from the public purse. But it is the public they now want to punish? While the ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Excellent program. Puts the whole political background into perspective.

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Sometimes, when confronted with a dilemma, the best solution is to think outside the box. Don't think any of us want the nanny-state to babysit us, but that doesn't mean there might not be new solutions for the OTC market that meet everyone's ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Worth discussing here — Some interesting points to throw into the mix From Jay Norris on trades that vanish "This really is something...in my world I would have thought something like is is almost inconcievable...with a U.S. FCM every key ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

What is rather insidious about this whole proposal, is the way in which it has been marketed by the CFTC as being necessary for consumer protections. On digging deeper, it becomes clear that the 10:1 agenda isn't consumer protections at all. It's ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

I'll skype or email with Michael Greenberg (Forex Magnates) and ask if he can put together a list of brokers who are offering traders off-shore accounts across all classes (standard, mini, micro). Michael is very good in terms of being across all ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Washington has been caught sleeping on the job, not once, but twice. The financial market meltdown, and 9/11. After 9/11, rather than target the known problem areas, the solution was to treat every citizen as a potential enemy of the state, spy on ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Excellent suggestion. This unfortunately, is what happens when public policy is drafted in a vacuum of proper consultation. It becomes adversarial (of need because the stakeholders have no other avenue) and it escalates to levels it shouldn't need ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?