I have to agree here I trade in the US on 50:1 leverage, but still I must keep a lot of my money with the broker in order to trade which really sucks. Flash crashes do happen and there will be more that's what really scares me. I personally think if regulators lower leverage then EVERYONE should have negative balance protection even in the US. I must admit I am very jealous of the Eurozone with their negative balance protection.
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