9. One ofthe individual Defendants, Sirning Yang, stands out for the size of his trading. Although his employer - a New York-based registered...
In a portfolio margin account, the OCC and your broker have a lien on all long positions, even if fully-paid-for. So are long positions in a...
NGFA's recommendations included: - Daily reporting of segregated fund investments and positions by futures commission merchants (FCMs). -...
rmorse, IB has described their forex system as different from the traditional model in this excerpt: from the thread: Yet Another IB SIPC...
IB states that they are the counter-party to their customers' forex trades: The off-exchange foreign currency trading you are entering into is...
Good point. It's all so similar to the flash crash reports that I am wondering if this attack could have occurred on another exchange...
I would add: it appears from the Nanex report that they wanted to sell at any price in all markets. The use of the ISO would ensure that all...
Couldn't regulators investigate the origination of the ISO sell orders and identify who engineered this attack?
You trade via IB's Canadian subsidiary? If so, then your futures and futures options should be covered by CIPF. Please let us know what CIPF...
Check with SIPC and Interactive Brokers regarding the sweep. SIPC may not cover the excess cash swept from your commodities account into your...
Any reason other than algo-error or attempted sabotage for someone to deploy ISO's in such an illiquid market? If algo-error, then the timing...
drukes1234, who is your futures broker?
SIPA may be amended to make futures and options on futures in a portfolio margin account eligible for coverage. There was a recommendation on...
You have two accounts if you have traded futures and equities. Your broker may have assigned you one account number, but your futures (CFTC)...
Options on equities should be covered. Options on futures are not. Your futures, and options on futures, will be traded in an account that is...
Rationalize, do you think Nanex is correct in their analysis here: So the use of an ISO order is not only inappropriate, but highly suspect. We...
Could be a repeat of the February DDoS: http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/1521-hackers-nasdaq-bats.html
syswizard, what (if any) is the ISO role in these cases?
To avoid increasing risk as you exit this trade, you (or your broker in the case of an automatic liquidation) would have to close both sides of...
While U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco yesterday threw out allegations under the California False Claims Act, he refused the...
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