The retail trader benefits from a put that gains in value as the market falls, while the market maker loses.

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If a retail trader enters a prohibited transaction working with an unregistered RFED offshore, he may not have rights to use U.S. courts either.

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We answer a key question about whether a U.S. retail forex trader can trade on a non-RFED registered foreign platform after the Oct. 18 registration due date (90 days after Dodd-Frank Fin Reg enactment).

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The market will in particular take its cue from retail sales, said one trader.

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Run by Merrill veteran Robert McCann, a onetime trader who clashed with O'Neal and left for a spell in 2003, the retail group has a 26% pretax margin and earns a healthy 30%-plus return on equity.

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