Recent content by twizzle

If someone were to do this, would they reveal their true identity to the offshore broker, and wire them money from a US bank account? This obviously leaves the significant risk of the US authorities finding out about the criminal activity. I can't imagine there is some way to do this that is...

I'm curious for a bit more details. Was this an outage where you could not connect (using their software, or via FIX or whatever API they provide) to close out your positions? Do they admit the exact duration of the outage? Was it a complete outage - that is, customers (or at least you) were...