Recent content by NeedAnExit

Curve Metal is worth it if you're UK based - you can use it to cycle £10k pcm of credit card spend through various manufactured spend vehicles to get cashback/avios/whatever. If you select your cashback options carefully (for example, we have Amazon/Apple/supermarkets) selected then the cashback...

He boasted openly on twitter for years about coercing young girls to work for him. He boasted about being above the law in Romania. In the past he's boasted about other serious crimes. Brought it all on himself.

IBKR will be fine, just go back and say you have the required experience. It's a totally cynical box-ticking exercise.

UK too. Every supermarket and lots of small shops sells SIM cards at the checkout for £1. No ID verification. Card is live as soon as it's inserted.

The North/South Cyprus border isn't treated as "exiting" the South though? They regard the North as "theirs" - and if you arrive in the North (eg via ECN) and try to enter the South, they can hassle you?

You've usually been able to buy an extra seat next to yours for musical instruments, for example. If you buy multiple seats in first or biz, with names of nominees who don't check in for the flight, then you're likely to find frequent flyers or people with status with the airline get upgraded...

Few things: 1. I strongly second the "wait until you are profitable long-term before giving up the day job" advice. 2. AIUI derivatives (CFDs etc) are still available to UK customers so long as they register as a "professional". IG Index are eager for me to do this and their site keeps asking...

Also interested in this. Currently UK citizen with UK family, resident in UK, contracting for a US entity via a UK Ltd of which I am sole shareholder/director. Few drives to move: 1 - Fed up of awful weather and general "cultural decline" factors in UK 2 - Have substantial capital gains to...