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Igor Mandel
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11 : 17 PM
secretary
'Regulation of Retail Forex'
RIN 3038-AC61
I want to make a comment to the proposal of CFTS about decreasing the maximal leverage from 100 to
10 for Forex. A motivation for this sounds unconvincing; a high leverage is a main attraction for traders
in Forex, and decreasing it ib 10 times would make the trade much less attractive. Anyway traders make
their own risk estimate, and just rarely use 100. But 10 looks indeed extremely small. Plus, it will repel
many small investors, who cannot afford to this small level.
Igor Mandel, PhD in statistics
