TL;DR — Quick Facts Trading Legends: Bruce Kovner Picture a quiet office in Manhattan, sometime in the mid-1980s. The phones are ringing. Currency markets in Tokyo have just lurched on surprise central bank data out of Germany. While other traders scramble, Bruce…
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AvaTrade has been around since 2006, and today it operates through a web of licensed entities across Europe, Australia, Japan, the UAE, South Africa and the British Virgin Islands. That footprint matters. Regulation shapes what leverage you can use, whether losses can exceed your deposit, and who steps in if…
Proprietary trading, or “prop trading,” has become a turning point for skilled retail traders who want to trade with more capital—without putting their own money at risk. Instead of relying on personal funds, traders can now prove themselves through evaluation programs and access virtual capital from firms. If they succeed,…