It's not a contradiction, you are just too stupid to know otherwise. Example: The risk threshold of broker x, a market maker, is the equivalent $10 million. This is set by the regulator (lets say the FCA) based on the amount of risk absorbing ...

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100% agreed.

Alpari.co.uk Discussion

Oh right, so now anything I put up is advertising or propaganda? Got ya lol Getting back to the argument, facts are facts. Again, if you know better, prove it. Can you? For instance can you prove anything that Simon Denham said was incorrect? - ...

Brokers chasing you for negative account balance

I'm the one backing my arguments up with articles and videos, I'm the one who has done the reading about the various kinds of brokers. You guys are the ones going round acting like all brokers are the same, and when asked don't provide any evidence ...

Brokers chasing you for negative account balance

Ffs there are different types of brokers. The ECN models brokers package your orders together with other traders and send it off to the market. They could not get quotess from their liquidity providers and could not get your or themselves into and ...

Brokers chasing you for negative account balance

Just means that when you buy, they are selling to you, and vice versa. Since most traders lose, they are happy enough to do that. This is what market maker dealers do. The ECN guys bundle your order together and pass them on, they hedge all their ...

Brokers chasing you for negative account balance

You need to read up on the different kind of brokers. Some take the opposite side of your trade. Others bundle your order with orders and try and pass it onto the market.

Brokers chasing you for negative account balance

We can either apply though the FSCS for compensation or just suck it up. I will be very angry if I lose my profits, it wasn't a mistake or misquote that a held my short for 28 days. Really? Nice, keep that to yourself though lol. Surprised you can ...

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Once in a lifetime trade, and I got lucky with timing... thanks though

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They act as counterparty to the losing traders up until their risk threshold is breached. After this threshold is breached they hedge their overhead risk in the actual market. I said the MMs only hedge for two reasons 1) when it exceeds their ...

OANDA Discussion

Actually you are wrong. MM are constantly hedging their risk which is based on their exposure to a specific market, and the amount of capital that they hold to guard against losses. These capital requirements are set by the regulators, and they must ...

OANDA Discussion

I don't know too much about this, because I am not a professional traders. But as far as I understand it now, the banks have had their leverage taken away from them, the regulators want them to simply provide the basis for the market through ...

Alpari.co.uk Discussion

Why do you think I was short? You think I shorted for some kind of joke, have you looked at any of my post history here? I shorted the eurchf precisely because I didn't think the peg would hold given that QE in Europe was inevitable and the euro was ...

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this is what confuses me about you guys. On the one hand you claim that 50 to 1 leverage is not enough, yet on the other you get pissy when you lose money from the peg break. would any of you be complaining if you had gained 75k. i did nothing ...

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I have traded with etxcapital before, very good broker, left because overnight rates slightly to high for my tastes A market maker but never cheated me

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Why are you sure?

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So I could potentially lose the money from my eurchf short? fuk me

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Who regulates oando, and do they allow hedging for non us clients.

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I got the same email. starting to get a bit annoyed by the lack of information available, it had been nearly 1 week and we still don't know what to expect as a result of this process. it take only a couple of minutes to give a few bullets points on ...

Alpari.co.uk Discussion

Why would IronFX want to acquire Alpari? It doesn't make sense, I want a UK regulated broker, so as soon as I was with IronFX I would be withdrawing my funds immediately. In otherwords, they are paying for the positive customers, who might well just ...

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