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If you don't want to trade the CME's COMEX gold futures contract, for example, you can always trade the SPDR GLD, the world's biggest physically-backed gold contract. Crude oil, corn and copper also boast ETFs that trade like stocks -- and, more importantly, offer better guarantees.

This is a link to a Lady broker with a different point of view on many things, as well as on MF Global.

On Nov 17, she announced she is closing her Brokerage company as a result of the MF Global fiasco.

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Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management,

It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures and options markets open not as a participant, but as a mere spectator.

The reason for my decision to pull the plug was excruciatingly simple: I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for every futures and options account in the United States. The entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse. Given this sad reality, I could not in good conscience take one more step as a commodity broker, soliciting trades that I knew were unsafe or holding funds that I knew to be in jeopardy.
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You can read her entire MF Global story here at - Barnhardt.biz - Commodity Brokerage
as well as her cut on many other subjects, if you choose to read them.

This is her blog and contains many other interesting articles. If you take the time to look, there are other MF Global threads she posted leading up to this one, beginning Oct 26.

On Oct 26 within a thread labeled MISCELLANE - She said;
4. If any of you are doing any futures and/or options business with a broker or office that clears through MF Global, which is basically the old EDF Man merged with what was left of Refco after it imploded, and is the one of the biggest Futures Commission Merchants in the world and in the U.S., I would get my money and positions out of there. It is toast. Here is the story at ZeroHedge:
Will Goldman Be MF Global's Executioner With Terminal Collateral Calls, As Yields Explode? | ZeroHedge

This is a link to a Lady broker with a different point of view on many things, as well as on MF Global.

On Nov 17, she announced she is closing her Brokerage company as a result of the MF Global fiasco.

# --------- Quote
Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management,

It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures and options markets open not as a participant, but as a mere spectator.

The reason for my decision to pull the plug was excruciatingly simple: I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for every futures and options account in the United States. The entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse. Given this sad reality, I could not in good conscience take one more step as a commodity broker, soliciting trades that I knew were unsafe or holding funds that I knew to be in jeopardy.
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You can read her entire MF Global story here at - Barnhardt.biz - Commodity Brokerage
as well as her cut on many other subjects, if you choose to read them.

This is her blog and contains many other interesting articles. If you take the time to look, there are other MF Global threads she posted leading up to this one, beginning Oct 26.

On Oct 26 within a thread labeled MISCELLANE - She said;
4. If any of you are doing any futures and/or options business with a broker or office that clears through MF Global, which is basically the old EDF Man merged with what was left of Refco after it imploded, and is the one of the biggest Futures Commission Merchants in the world and in the U.S., I would get my money and positions out of there. It is toast. Here is the story at ZeroHedge:
Will Goldman Be MF Global's Executioner With Terminal Collateral Calls, As Yields Explode? | ZeroHedge

Question du jour: why is Jon Corzine still at large? In what fabulous Manhattan restaurants has he been enjoying plates of cockscombs and lobster with sauce hydromel and cinghiale ai frutti di bosco, while less well-connected citizens of this degenerate republic have to order their suppers from the dumpster in the WalMart parking lot where they have been living lately.
Is there still an Attorney General in this country? Will somebody please follow Eric Holder down a hallway and see if he leaves a trail of sawdust on the floor. Or did congress just retract all the fraud statutes by stealth in the same way that the Federal Reserve handed out $7.7 trillion in bailouts back in 2008 (much more than the generally accepted figure of the $800 billion TARP) without anyone finding out until three years later when some Bloomberg reporters rooted the numbers out of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing. And by the way, what is the US Federal Reserve doing handing out billions of dollars to the Royal Bank of Scotland? Was Scotland admitted to the Union by stealth, too? Or did Jamie Dimon just buy it as a birthday present for Barack Obama, who likes golf.
This is what life in the USA is like nowadays: shit happens and shit un-happens, and you find out about it years later. Only a desperate and hopelessly degenerate nation would choose to live this way, in a law-optional society, in which money means everything, and yet nobody even knows what money is (or where it goes, and what it does when it goes there.)

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