copio l'email che S5 mi ha mandato. Sembrano molto customer focused e trasparenti.
Sembra che la loro strategia di vendita sia affiliarsi con traders con un buon numero di followers e crescere by word of mouth.
In questo hanno tutto il mio rispetto, anzi se vendessero delle quote della societa'le comprerei pure
ecco l'ricca di info:
Hi Marco,
I hope you are well. How is everything coming along with the demo account? I wanted to send over some information we have on the customer segregated funds accounts. Your funds are held with our clearing firm (Gain Capital which is Gain Capital Group LLC) and held in segregated from the working capital of the financial institution. Below is some information that may help you better understand the parameters set up to help protect our client’s funds.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), the U.S. Government agency with ultimate supervisory responsibility over our industry, offers the following excerpt from its brochure publication “What You Should Know Before You Trade” (go to
www.cftc.gov/opa/brochures/opafutures.htm to view the full document):
“Are my funds protected?
In an individual account, funds that you have deposited with your commodity brokerage firm to trade on commodity exchanges located in the United States are required to be segregated (held separately) from any of the brokerage firm's own funds. The amount segregated will increase or diminish as you make or lose money from your trading. Also, even though your brokerage firm is required to segregate your funds, you may still not be able to recover the full amount of any funds in your account if the brokerage firm becomes insolvent and there are insufficient funds available to cover the obligations to all of its customers. Your account is not insured.
If, in your individual account, you trade on commodity markets located outside of the United States, your brokerage firm will set up a trading account for you, which is in addition to the account set up for your trading on U.S. markets. The funds in your foreign account will be segregated by your brokerage firm only while you maintain an open position on a foreign market, and then only to the extent of any margin required on that position, plus or minus any unrealized gain or loss on that position. You should ask your broker about account protection and should be aware of the limitations imposed on the protection of the funds in your commodity trading accounts.”
The National Futures Association (“NFA”) directly regulates Gain Capital and reports to the CFTC. The NFA offers the following excerpt from its publication “The Story Behind the Integrity of the U.S. Futures Markets” (go to
www.nfa.futures.org/investor/Storybehind.asp to view the full document):
“Trading volume in futures contracts and options on futures on U.S. markets has risen to more than 500 million contracts annually. And the dollar value of futures contracts traded currently exceeds severalfold the dollar value of common stocks traded on all U.S. stock exchanges.
A requisite for this growth has been the financial integrity of futures markets. While trading in futures contracts obviously involves risks related to price changes, market participants have historically had little reason to be concerned about the security of their funds. Customer losses due to the insolvency of a futures brokerage firm have been virtually non-existent. Indeed, such losses have totaled less over 50 years than the Securities Investor Protection Corporation has paid, on the average, to reimburse customers of the securities industry for member firm insolvency losses each year.
For anyone considering participation in the nation's futures markets, the reasons behind this continuing and impressive record of financial soundness are worth knowing about…
… Segregated Accounts.
Firms and principals of firms in the futures industry are required to maintain their customers' funds and margin deposits in bank accounts which are totally separate from their own. Rules further stipulate that such funds can be used only for the purposes the customers intended and can at no time be commingled with the firm's funds or the funds of the firm's principals. Compliance is strictly enforced and regulators possess power to take such
Please take a look at the new regulations that have been put in place by the NFA to further protect the customer segregated funds:
www.nfa.futures.org/news/newsRel.asp?ArticleID=4092
I hope this helps explain the regulations in place to protect client funds.
As always, feel free to contact me with any questions.