Fx Trading:US retail FX: War waged on cowboy practices - Financial Times
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US retail FX: War waged on cowboy practices
By Gregory Meyer, Financial Times
The US retail foreign exchange market has long suffered a reputation as a place where unseemly operators took advantage of naive investors.
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A pretty hostile article on FT… but interesting at once
Francesc
US retail FX: War waged on cowboy practices
By Gregory Meyer, Financial Times
The US retail foreign exchange market has long suffered a reputation as a place where unseemly operators took advantage of naive investors.
So it was a bit surprising that when a regulator proposed rules to protect small FX investors this year, they responded with a torrent of criticism.
Egged on by forex dealers, investors sent the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a record 9,100 letters. They focused on one aspect of the proposal: leverage. Borrowed money is the bread and butter of day-to-day FX trading, and the investors did not want it yanked away.
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