First to address the sending funds from my PayPal:
This was not at all professional, agreed. Pellucid was in a tight spot in that the accounts were frozen with no prior warning and Pellucid was told they had changed banking policy and Pellucid did not comply with their new policies. Pellucid had to get another bank to transfer the funds to, creating bank accounts offshore is a slow process. In the mean time I was trying to pay out clients withdrawals when our money was not withdraw-able, Pellucid was still getting deposits but it could only remove funds to another account in pellucids name... it was a difficult situation and most were paid out of other back up accounts, but as time wore on and PSPs could not send us funds there came a few emergencies where I covered the withdrawals personally, I didn't know what else to do. We now have 4 banks for client funds and that cannot happen again
I am putting this same response in the two threads open on FPA:
A situation arose where an huge amount of orders were not being filled at market by many clients, we were being forced to take the other side of trades, this is usually an extremely rare occurrence, we notified our LP and they did an investigation while our staff did their own, it was found that there were identical trades across accounts that were not being filled all due to the market actually not being there, it could get filled on our system but was declined at the LP, these were in general very fast trades risking ridiculous sums. Pellucid lost a lot of money on this, more than deposits in some cases. Obviously someone had found a feed that was faster at times. All traders that partook were banned, we gave deposits back regardless of the overall pellucid loss (Pellucid lost on two sides, forced to take trades against trader and fees to LP. They charge fees regardless if they fill or we take opposing side.)
To be very general the trades that were in violation of our terms were out of market, extremely fast, impossibly big (unless already won) and the same exact trade including down-to-the-exact-second in and out on the same pair were across multiple accounts.
Not only did pellucid lose monetarily but in banning its clients and giving them back deposits we were many times over threatened that this would hit the forums and every law agency in the world... it was not done lightly and we knew there were going to repercussions on pellucid. (Although strangely deposits are up after this hit the forums
So maybe there is a spin on this in that knowing traders KNOW that this type of trading is not profitable for anyone and like that a brokerage is not putting up with it.
Finally, accounts were not accessible, and specific trades were not identified for the good reason that this just helps the client violating terms to do it better next time. That lesson was learned the hard way. When terms are violated the account is closed, you are no longer a client. deposit is returned. period.
An amusing point on this is that pellucid was called a classic bucket shop when it froze accounts... if this is classic to them, they have had this problem before???...