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PFGBest Accounts Frozen (PFG scandal big thread)

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Early warning signs....

Speaking of...

Source: PFGBest missing $220 million customer segregated funds, says NFA


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One PFG customer we spoke with said that he saw a potential red flag back in June when a check from the firm did not clear. PFG indicated that it was simply a technical glitch and the check cleared a day later.

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Moved my account 3 months ago to Mirus/Dorman after futures.io (formerly BMT) best of trading 2012 results. Phew! dodged a bullet there!

Thank you Big Mike!!


You were one of the lucky ones!


Hopefully people reading this thread now realize that records can be faked, financial reports can be misleading, etc. I think there are a couple of lessons here (at least that I have followed since MFG):

1. Have multiple accounts through different clearing firms.

2. Put as little as possible in each acct - tell yourself you'll be OK if any one account suddenly vaporizes.

3. You could also wire money in and out every day/week/month, to not leave extra idle funds sitting around in a futures brokerage.


The net effect of doing this will still leave you open to an industry collapse, which I guess could happen. It also will effectively deleverage you (not necessarily a bad thing), since you won't be using margin optimally.


I'm guessing this debacle will lead to SIPC style insurance for futures accounts. A year ago I would have thought that idea was crazy. But after MFG and now PFG, it makes total sense.

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Look what's still working....


The sad thing is, I bet there are plenty of people still funding yesterday, today, tomorrow that haven't heard the news.

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Look what's still working....



ThatMan -

Can you open an acct, and please wire in $200 million? Problem solved!


If you don't have it, just give Russ Wasendorf Sr. a call at the hospital. He can give you tips on how to pretend you have it.

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I believe the NFA has stipulated that PFG cannot open new accounts.

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I'm guessing this debacle will lead to SIPC style insurance for futures accounts. A year ago I would have thought that idea was crazy. But after MFG and now PFG, it makes total sense.

It might. But PFG is not going to garner the attention of Congress in the way that Corzine/MFG did.

I will be interested to hear what the CME says.

The real issue for me is "who's next". Because you know it will be someone.

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I believe the NFA has stipulated that PFG cannot open new accounts.

Agreed, but I bet it still causes much grief to get your money back, unless somehow the wire transfers are being returned automatically (receiving account closed?)

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Sell CME calls !!!!!

CME up over 2% pre-market.

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Phew!

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From: Nicholas Wittenburg
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 3:21 PM
To: xxx
Subject: PFGBEST Account

Dear xxx



Thank you for your relationship with PFGBEST. I was hoping to follow up with you in regards to your old account with us. I wanted to see how everything was going and to see if you were still trading futures. If you are I was hoping that you would consider coming back to PFGBEST. If you could please let me know.



Best regards,



Nick Wittenburg





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Just did a search on futures.io (formerly BMT)'s user database.

Well over 100 futures.io (formerly BMT) users have declared PFG as their broker. And this is a rarely used field (non-required field), so the actual number is going to be many, many times higher.

Sorry for these people...

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