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COMMENT
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Michael M Murillo
Friday, January 22, 2010 4:19
PM
secretary
Regulation of Retail Forex
To whom it may concern,
I would like to voice my concern about and opposition to the newly proposed 10:1 margin requirements for Retail Forex
accounts. I believe that this recommendation would drastically reduce the opportunities and profits for small retail traders, like
myself. With the movements of currencies being tracked in sub-cents, the barrier for position entry will reduce the expected
ROI. Retail traders make up only a small percentage of trading that goes on in the foreign currency markets and the effects
small retail trades have on the overall market are completely minimal. Regulation only restricts small-scale traders as large
banks and institutions that make up the majority of foreign exchange trading already trade at low margin levels because of the
size of their transactions.
Perhaps a more prudent suggestion for mitigating risk on traders' behalf should be a sliding scale margin requirement so that
larger transactions must be backed with more margin.
I would appreciate your reasoning for the drastic, across-the-board margin requirement increase was necessary.
Regards,
Michael Murillo
