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Re: Which is the time that professional trade Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) and S&P fut Oh forgot... crude inventory data released each Wed. except short weeks. These days are a little crazy. Don't trade immediate reaction if you want to trade this. 1 min after inventories are posted, demand is...

Re: Which is the time that professional trade Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) and S&P fut Hallo, hoe gaat het met u? Hi.... I'm Canadian actually, living in Utrecht but thought I'd see if you were Dutch or only your name (Friese I know...mine too ;>) I trade nymex crude -- CL (my main instrument...

Sorry to hear about your surprising and disturbing news. I am a futures trader as well, but have only just celebrated my 1 year anniversary of activity in futures markets. However as I recently changed brokerages I made some discoveries that might be of some service to you. The first thing that...

Okay, WTF, are there really 269 pages, say 1000 posts (more like 1400 prob.) in TWO WEEKS of people essentially getting on the war wagon over the same alleged, I guess -- sorta pyramid scam? I'm so blown away that I am not believing my eyes and need someone to tell me, "Ya there are" ....bcz...

Also of possible interest: As mentioned Canadian regs are quoted by Futures brokerages as reason for not doing business there... here.... This meant that only four futures brokerages were available to Canadians who wanted to trade futures, as of Junes last year when I was setting up my full-time...

Yeah, I realized that sorting out just which regs saved my butt, as well as which regs the brokerages find to be particularly onerous and are keeping them away (in case they're not the same ones), would be helpful on this thread. Because its such an important issue (no argument there, right?)...

Only if you get caught. Reports now are that with a clever ploy depending on the use of.... a PO box....(yup, thats it) PFG CEO and founder was leading everyone on for 20 YEARS! Sorry, but I'm allowed to use capitals on this thread BECAUSE I WAS A FRAKKIN CUSTOMER!!! Actually, I was a Canadian...

Well well... so what have we learned since this thread was begun a year and a half ago? Well, we had the first bankruptcy and criminal fraud resulting in near total loss of client funds in the history of the futures exchanges. Oh, and wait, we also had the second ever bankruptcy and criminal...