Brownsfan,
I agree that it would be nice to see verifiable proof by a vendor...but - have you ever seen one single vendor show his account statements to the public ? I must say I haven't.
Regarding the down spike - yup, if one is a good trader, these are the moments...a trading buddy of mine went long heavily from 1500 and kept on adding on the way down - I guess I would have goofed up, too somewhere on the way down
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