Is it legal to speculate bitcoin on MT4 platform
It's not against the law to do bitcoin business, but don't use bitcoin to do illegal things
the following is the bitcoin risk notice issued by the central bank and other five ministries and commissions (bitcoin home has the full text):
the notice defines the nature of bitcoin, and holds that bitcoin is not issued by the monetary authority, has no monetary attributes such as legal compensation and mandatory, and is not a real currency. In terms of nature, bitcoin is a specific virtual commodity, which does not have the same legal status as currency and cannot and should not be used as currency in the market. However, bitcoin trading as a commodity trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate at their own risk
common financial fraud features
1. Fictitious trading platform, using simulated trading software. Scam gangs often make up a tall company and send a simulated trading software to investors, which is controlled by them. In the software, commodity market and price trend are all set by themselves, and then hyped with investors. You buy up, he buy down, let you lose money
2. Freezing customer accounts and delaying transactions. When the investors make profits, they freeze their accounts so that they can't sell normally after they buy. Then other operators will widen the price direction, making the investors' actual profits turn into losses
3. When the customer is profitable, close the position forcibly. Its good name is to avoid your loss. Because the trading software, they have backstage control, found that investors profit, forced closing. Because investors are usually network open. Account, one no contract, two do not know the name and address of the company, often forced to close positions, powerless, no door to appeal
4. Set up a virtual account in the trading platform, then inject virtual capital into the account, and then control the trading market through the virtual capital, resulting in the loss of the victim
5. Enlarge the transaction leverage, set up the "main account" of the victim with the capital amplification ratio of tens or hundreds of times, and then make the victim lose money through the capital advantage operation and market control after amplification
6. Perform "sliding point" operation. According to the regular trading order of commodities, but a small amount of increase or decrease in the transaction amount of customers, so that customers make less profits or more losses and make profits
7. Frequent trading on behalf of customers to earn high handling charges, collect customer storage fees, processing fees, profit sharing and other losses for investors
all kinds of foreign exchange trading platforms on China's network, one without the approval of China's financial regulatory department, two without the establishment of relevant institutions to provide business services in China, three without filing with the telecommunications department in accordance with the law, are illegal business activities
features
1. A compliant foreign exchange platform
regulated dealers, whose customers trade orders directly into the bank and the market, provide channels for banks and traders, and make profits in the foreign exchange market only through technical analysis. At present, the major foreign exchange dealers in the world are regulated by four regulatory bodies: 1. The Financial Services Authority (FSA), 2. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), 3. The National Futures Association (NFA) and 4. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), Once a complaint is made, the regulatory authorities will accept it. Moreover, every investor's trading list is the bank order corresponding to the dealer, and there will be no false trading
2. Non compliant foreign exchange platforms
small platforms that are not regulated by regulators or fake regulators. Investors just bet with dealers, that is, the so-called internal trading. The money that investors lose flows to the dealers' capital pool. Their purpose is to put the money in your pocket into your own pocket, and they will not be responsible for the investors' funds.
the further development of bitcoin may threaten the interests of traditional currencies, and currency issuers will not cede their rights to an open-source P2P algorithm. So governments are likely to outlaw bitcoin
once governments declare it illegal, it may cause huge fluctuations in its price in the short term. It could be a crash, it could be a surge. Because people at the bottom of the world are obviously resistant to their governments< At the same time, the ban by the government will lead to the closure of bitcoin trading platform. After the closing of the trading platform, bitcoin can only be cashed in private, which will have a great impact on its cashing ability< However, e to the characteristics of bitcoin itself, it provides an excellent channel for officials of various countries to accept bribes, launder money and transfer assets overseas. Especially in the trend that officials of various countries disclose their property, bitcoin provides a good way for them to hold huge property anonymously
from this perspective, some officials may actively promote the legalization of bitcoin< On May 7, 2013, officials from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said that they were considering whether the online virtual currency "bitcoin" could be applied to the agency's regulations. CFTC is the highest regulator of the derivatives instry in the United States. Bitcoin is known as a currency independent of traditional authority, and if it is regulated more, it may bring challenges to its supporters
CFTC mainly supervises derivatives contracts. Its responsibilities have been greatly expanded after the financial crisis in 2007-2009, and it also has full power to supervise retail foreign exchange dealers
Bart Chilton, one of the five members of the CFTC, said on Monday that he had asked the committee to consider regulating bitcoin to determine whether consumers need additional protection when using bitcoin[ 15]
the Hong Kong government has approved GBL electronic currency trading center to operate virtual currency exchange business, which will be an important milestone in the development of bitcoin. GBL virtual electronic currency trading center has completed the equity change and has the business scope of virtual electronic currency exchange business.
besides, MT4 is settled in US dollars, not bitcoin