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Over a year ago, FXDD unilaterally removed profits from client accounts based on the accusation the customers had somehow "manipulated" FXDD's trading system by executing trades at "off-market" prices. FXDD long after the NFA limits on trade price adjustments. In what appeared to be a method...

I've had an account with FXDD for over a year(FXDD MT). I recently received an email that the account will be closed and all profits wiped, copy of email below: Dear Sir Your account captioned above was selected for a detailed review by Compliance. After analyzing all records related to...

I invested with this company because they accept US customers and I was very happy at the beginning because it was a very useful and nice platform. I started to make money immediately and when I made my first withdraw request they stopped answering my emails and they blocked my account so now I...

Specs were again sellers of other currencies versus the USD. The total net USD long position has grown to 431.8K contracts, up from 412.2 contracts last week and 222.8K contracts in the last four weeks. The biggest long USD position is against a short yen, followed by short A$, and then the...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report 18 June, published 21 June 2013, Technical Analysis. Speculators continued their massive selling of the USD, as they cover their shorts in the euro, pound, SF, the DI and the yen. Last week, the total long the USD and short another currency was 414.4K...

From the CFTC... RELEASE: PR6602-13 June 6, 2013 CFTC Charges “Prediction Market” Proprietor Banc de Binary with Violating the CFTC’s Off-Exchange Options Trading Ban and Operating as an Unregistered Futures Commission Merchant Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission...

From the CFTC's website... The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Office of Consumer Outreach and the Securities & Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy are issuing this Investor Alert to warn about fraudulent schemes involving binary options and their...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report, published 15 February 2013 - Technical Analysis. There was about a 58K contract reduction in the combined net short position in the USD. The biggest reduction was in the Australian Dollar where the reduction was almost 40K contracts. Specs remain long...

CFTC Commitment of Traders (COT) Report, published 29 January 2013 - Technical Analysis. Continuing last week's trend, the speculators aggregate position short position in the USD was again reduced. Last week, the reduction was a mere 25K but this week the specs got serious and reduced their...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report, published 22 January 2013 - Technical Analysis. The latest COT report shows that the aggregate spec short position in the USD was reduced to 175K, down from 200k in the previous week. The reduction of the short USD position was made in the pound...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report, published 08 January 2013 - Technical Analysis. Currency futures traders were busy reducing positions in the first week of the New Year. The collective reduction was 42K contracts but there was no liquidation in all contracts. Most of the liquidation...

USD Currency Short Increases CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report, published Friday 04 January 2013 - Technical Analysis. The total net USD position in the currencies we follow increased to a short of 183,017 contracts, up from 177,758 in the previous period. Speculators have been short the...

I was encouraged to deposit more money into my trading account on 10/09 by my senior broker(JIM ANDERSON) . I advised my broker that I would not be able to do this as my bank account was low on funds and to give me some time to move funds around and that I will contact him once I am able to do...

PFG Best (at making trader money disappear?) It looks like something has gone very wrong at Peregrine Financial Group, also known as PFG Best. PFG and Peregrine Asset Management have been locked down by the NFA. They are prohibited from accepting new money, except to cover margin for...

More Brokers Slapped by the CFTC. Their Crime? Daring to Accept US Traders. by Pharaoh I'm not addicted. I can stop writing any time I like. Background. If you missed out, the Dodd-Frank Act banned offshore forex brokers from offering retail forex services to residents of the United...

CDH Forex The CFTC Ends a Scam The FPA tries to warn people to carefully check out managed forex accounts before investing. Sometimes the scammers are just a little too convincing. In this case, they convinced investors to part with over $2.2 million. It started with the NFA shutting...

It looks like the CFTC isn't done suing unregistered forex brokers. I'd like to thank FPA member Freddie Freeman for sending a note to the FPA about this. Here's the CFTC Press Release... RELEASE: pr6108-11 September 8, 2011 CFTC Sues 11 Foreign Currency Firms in Second Nationwide...

JadeFx shut down by the CFTC The complaints started on March 2nd in the reviews. A number of reviewers reported issues connecting to JadeFx's MT4 servers.. On March 7th, FPA member Horacio Ofman reported in the forums that the Jade FxLtd's website was down and that metatrader wouldn't connect...

One good part of the new CFTC regulations from last year is that the CFTC has some amazing new enforcement powers. I just got a note from a good friend of the FPA about the CFTC suing 14 forex brokers. Many of these brokers are very well known to the FPA. Some are on good terms with the...

I have been with Investtechfx since July 2009. Everything was fine until I started to pile up money in my account. I was accused of illegal trading in October of 2010 and my account was disabled. After weeks it was finally reopened for trading but my EA was restricted and I had to enter into...