Exactly, but still some people think a SB company won't scam a few pips off them here and there, not even a SB company that was caught doing the same thing on FX accounts. I can't help thinking some people are addicted to this as a form of gambling and are unwilling to recognise the problem because they're in denial about it all.
I believe that you are correct. It is a form of gambling to, not just some people, but to many, if not most. But to single out SB companies as the epitome of corrupt business practice is not correct, either. After what has happened to the capitalist world in the last few years, I consider it to be as safe an industry as many more, some of which working people had, because of their faith, their life savings and pensions decimated and where pillars of society have been named, shamed, fired and given golden handshakes at the same time!
Your posts are good advice to open people's eyes to what can happen if one is too trusting but people are gamblers by nature and business, in general, is a gamble, too. The number of betting shops in the high streets that have fruit machines before one gets near the counter is innumerable and they are in use all day.
I have been using the same SB company for a decade with no problem (visible to my eye, anyway). I am moderate and do not take undue risks. I win some and lose some. However, I do not believe that the instrument one uses to trade is more corrupt than the market, itself, and that is what the would be trader has to realise most. He cannot know, only believe, that he knows the direction that the market will take once he has opened his trade.