Tag Archives: broker

It’s not your broker stop-hunting you

Stop-hunting is a very commonly discussed topic in the retail forex community – probably more so than …

New Players Make Forex More Competitive

The analysts at Citi and I are not the only ones thinking about the future of the …

Competition, Regulation Hitting Forex Brokers?

Apparently, the analysts at Citi have their concerns about the earnings prospects of the major forex retail …

Updated Forex Broker Customer Performance Figures

Back in October I posted on the newly released customer profitabily statistics from retail forex brokers. The …

My Tools of the Trade

Trader Mike and Blain at StockToGo both posted recently on the various tools they use in their trading. …

Retail Forex Trader Profitability and the Death of US Forex Trading

I initially wrote this for the Currensee blog on October 18th. I’m cross posting it here because …

Trader Performance May Not Be as Bad as They Say

Here’s an interesting forex broker table posted at Forex Magnates. It lays out the % of profitable …

New NFA Forex Leverage Limits In Effect Today

I wrote a while back (New NFA Retail Forex Leverage Restrictions) about new rules coming into effect …

Someone Else Slamming Forex

I really wish people would get their facts right. There was an article posted in the ft.com/alphaville …

Screwed by his forex broker

The following rant was posted in a forum by a clearly frustrated forex trader claiming his broker …

Failure to Track Your Trading Could Cost You Millions!

There’s a story on the Bloomberg site today with the title MF Global Told to Pay U.K. …

Forex “Hedging” Continued

In yesterday’s No More “Hedging” for Forex Traders post I pointed out a new rule from the …

No More “Hedging” for Forex Traders

The National Futures Association (NFA) has a new ruling which goes into effect on May 15, 2009. …

How can forex brokers provide so much leverage?

Margin and leverage in trading are topics that cause a great deal of confusion to new traders. …

Picking a Broker

I got this broker question the other day. The single most important question would be what broker …

An Inquiry for Active Forex Traders

I need to do a some research for my employer. If you’re an active forex trader, I …

A Reason to Know Your Broker’s Financial Strength

There’s an article in on the Financial Time’s site that is worth giving a read. It involves …

Is My Broker Stealing from Me?

The following was actually left as a comment on the site, but since I’m sure it’s something …

Which Forex Broker/Dealer Should I Use?

A visitor to the site submitted an inquiry the other day: I want to ask you to …