Recent content by jlmason26

The clawback risk mentioned above is real. Persons who had money invested with Madoff and had wisely taken their money our two years before the unwinding had to return their money to the bankrupcy trustee.

Binary options in themselves are not a bad thing. Legitimate binaries are treated on NADEX, a regulated US exchange. Why anyone needs a broker is beyond me since you can trade on the exchange with even a tiny account.

Maybe I'm missing the boat...but I don't think so. I've been trading & investing for a living since the 1970s and seen all kinds of new and exciting deals come along...most of which were either worthless or scams. Binary options are the latest idea & there is a lot to be said for trading...

I have looked at a bunch of these binary option brokers for my students/consulting customers. I have never found one worth messing with. You can trade binaries directly on NADEX. All the ones I've seen with matching deposit plans are scams.

Binary options brokers in general strike me as a bit of a scam. What do they give you that you can't have just by opening an account on NADEX? In a past life I was a stock broker & if someone experienced the kind of delay we are speaking of here a complaint would go to the NASD (now I guess it...