In lieu of our newsletter which did not run yesterday due to President’s day we are posting our normal week in review on the blog. Also – we are thinking of making this a permanent feature of the blog, so please feel free to give us your feedback and let us know what you think. […]
Category: Managed Forex
01
Dec
2010
The $100 Billion Forex Hustle via FT
With the backdrop of the planned FXCM IPO tomorrow and pending Gain Capital IPO – we ran into a good article from the ft.com/alphaville blog pointed out by Barry Ritholz on the Big Picture Blog today, mirroring what we’ve been saying for years – that retail Forex trading is a scam. (they use slightly more […]
03
Sep
2010
CFTC finally wakes up on Forex Regulation
The CFTC finally made a common sense rule on Forex this past week – saying that if you are soliciting accounts to trade forex, you have to be registered to sell forex accounts. What a ground breaking idea (heavy sarcasm). Here’s the release. For those of us who have to be registered to sell stocks, […]