Disliked{quote} ...So the legacy of the SNB, may be a more regulated foreign exchange market!!Ignored
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DislikedThere is no law preventing you from trading with non-US brokers. If a broker is regulated in another country the US strong arms them into not accepting US residents. However, there are still quite a few brokers who understand the US has no right to regulate outside of the US, just like no other country has that right, but for some reason the CFTC thinks they own the world. None of the brokers I use are regulated, as you can clearly see, being regulated only hurts the trader, it doesn't help. There is a thread on babypips.com titled going offshore...Ignored
DislikedIts funny hearing some of you guys. I feel bad for those who lost there account but most of you where going to lose it anyways.Ignored
Disliked{quote} it is the human nature. people don't like anybody telling them what to do. Even if it is for their own benefit. Go tell those freaking teenagers they should not smoke pot!! In 2007 I lost 70k because I did not know what I was getting myself in. If I could go back in time I would slap my younger self in the face and cap his leverage at 1:1Ignored
Disliked{quote} I hear ya. Well you got me beat. I lost 30k when I started trading in 2007. I can now say I'm at break even after 8 years It took me 5 years to start making it in forex. I don't overtrade and I hold my trades 5 to 10 days and maybe 2 trades a month. But I never use leverage higher that 30:1. And that's if I'm confident about the trade. But usually 20:1. The biggest problem forex traders have is overtrading and leverage. Period!Ignored
Dislikedwhichever broker got F*****ed They are the ones holding positions to trade against their clients. it does not matter leverage or not, regulator or not with this kind of events scrutinized the everyone. This happened with a purpose behind the very big Boy. nothing we can't do, just accepted and move on.Ignored
DislikedOn January 15, 2015 due to a unprecedented move by the Swiss National Bank. FOREX the 5.3 trillion per day market will never be the same. USD/CHF moved over 2800 pips in 5 minutes EUR/CHF over 4300 pips in 5 minutes GBP/CHF over 3150 pips in 5 minutes I plan to record in this thread how forex retail trading will emerge out of this catastrophic event.Ignored
DislikedActivTrades: “no negative impact”. The company took measures: “Back in November 2014, ActivTrades had already anticipated the possibility of such events. Consequently, we decided at the time to increase the margin required on our CHF pairs by a multiple of 16. Thanks to this measure ActivTrades was able to protect its clients by substantially limiting their losses. Hence by protecting our clients’ interests, we protected the interests of the company as a whole” Below is the updated list of many brokers : http://www.forexcrunch.com/snbomb-re...forex-brokers/...Ignored