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GFT U-Turn on Offshore Hedging

Jim — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:10:16 +0000

As we reported back at the beginning of August forex broker GFT published on their website a document entitled "Get the Facts" which pointed out that their DealBook platform didn't require changing to comply with the recently introduced NFA hedging and FIFO rules. Amongst other things they stated then that:

Trading Gurus Robots Translated from MetaTrader to GFT CTL

Jim — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:05:41 +0000

Our regular readers will have gathered by now that we are based in the United Kingdom. As UK residents that means if we use a spread betting account to do our forex trading we pay no tax on our profits! This is obviously highly desirable, but there is a drawback. The vast majority of spread betting brokers don't allow you to use automated trading systems.

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FIFO Fiasco Status Report – Who Said What When?

Jim — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:54:34 +0000

At long last August 2nd has been and gone, and the dust has settled slightly. We'll cover what still works and what doesn't in a forthcoming post, but for today we're going to concentrate on who said what, and when. We'll do that by working our way down the list of retail forex brokers included in the CFTC report on the financial strength of Futures Commission Merchants. For some reason it seems the better capitalised a broker is the less it has to say about the FIFO fiasco!

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