Solution for reduced leverage

As with many things, there are ways around rules and regulations. In case CFTC does reduce leverage, there's no reason a broker can't introduce a leveraged derivative, like equity ETFs. SSO/SDS and QLD/QID are only 2:1, but a new derivative could just as easily be 100:1 or higher. And liquidity would be less of an issue since most Forex brokers are also market makers.

Rob

you can already trade fully paid for spread and binary option contracts at nadex.com. trading spreads is really same as trading spot fx. You can also trade binary options, that you can trade in and out of, here as well. All around a pretty sweet setup for the day trader. Some down sides are a limited set of currency pairs (eur/usd, usd/cad, gbp/usd, usd/chf).

You're right. I've never gotten into options because as a class it's so different from stocks and currency. But from the little that I understand, you can write as many contracts as you want.

Rob