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Investor
Protection |
| The commodity industry remains one of the most stringently
regulated industries in the United States. We will outline
some of the protection devices designed for you, the client.
You may also contact us to request a copy of "The
Story Behind The Financial Integrity of the U.S. Futures
Markets", published by the National Futures Association
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|  Regulation
All futures commission merchants and brokerage houses
are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
and the National Futures Association. Every firm that
conducts business with the public as a Futures Commission
Merchant must have and maintain sufficient capital to
meet its financial obligations to its customers. These
requirements are subject to continuous audit and stringent
enforcement.
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| Segregated
Accounts
All customer funds are kept in a customer segregated
funds account, which is separate from the bank account
of the futures commission merchant and the brokerage
firm. 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 the power
to take such immediate action as is considered necessary
to protect the security of customers’ money. |
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| Transfer
of Market Positions
Should a firm be determined to be in a financial situation
that could potentially jeopardize the safety of its
customers’ funds, it can be directed to immediately
cease operations and transfer all open customer positions
in the market to a firm, which is financially sound.
This is to ensure that adequately margined positions
with a troubled firm will not be liquidated at a time
when the customer may not wish for them to be liquidated.
These and other protective safeguards support the financial
integrity of the futures markets. For additional information,
please feel free to contact us for your copy of the
NFA publication. |
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| Our
Status
iBDirect, LLC. is headquarted in La
Crosse, WI right along the banks of the Mississippi
River just hours north of Chicago. We've been a member
of the National Futures Assosciation (NFA) since 2001.
We've created a secure, reliable, personalized, easy-to-use,
real-time trading system that allows our customers to
trade at the leading futures exchanges around the globe
and to participate in all the 24 hour futures traded
markets directly from our platform.
Please feel free to visit the NFA's
website and view our impeccable history.
Our NFA ID is 0311511.
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