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Is "Client Money Rules" a very loose rule for FSA registered firm? I see IG markets publicly announces they won't by default hold your money under protection of FSA's Client Money Rules:

I try to look for relevant information within "Financial Services and Markets Act 2000".Toooo many entries, almost impossible for new readers to find out where the useful contents are. Anyone can give me a help on which part of the Act refers to Forex spot and futures trading business? Thanks in...

If you prefer to get news as immediately as possible and do not have problem for payment, use Bloomberg terminal or Reuters terminal. Google them.

Thanks. Is it a direct-access broker?

Please recommend some. Thank you.

sccz97 is experienced in trading news. But the success of trading news is based on two basic physical conditions. The 1st is you have to trade with a broker/dealer that will not screw you when the market is volatile. The 2nd is you have to have a news feed which will normally cost you a lot of...

under construction ;) His news trading strategy was pretty fruitful when bucket shops still gave free lunch to lure new customers last year. After that, retail fx trading gets real and tough.

Sorry, I just wrote Maybe I wrote it too simple coz I thought that would not produce misunderstanding.

It should be 15 or 16 basis points now. I found it in Bloomberg articles.

I just don't know how many bps repo historically averagely differs from LIBOR. Thanks a lot, tsuntzu.

As title. Thank you.

Well, Interbank FX. Thank you. A fairly new name in fx retail firms, I hope which is not the reason they are so nice.

Same question as GammaJammer's for bertie, thank you. :)

You are welcome. Everyday there are some options expiring. EUR/USD is waiting for U.S. March Core CPI. I think that is the reason.

Since most forex options are traded in OTC market, nobody clearly knows the details of their strike prices and amounts. There are always some rumors like "a large amount of 1.3000 eur/usd options will expire at 10:00 ET", you can believe it or not. But IMO, it can hardly be a component of a...