UK

diefy7321

So let me get this straight, there are hedge funds (UK & US) financed by banks that are leveraged up to 50x on US Treasuries through the repo market (i.e., MMFs). All of this equates to trillions of dollars of leveraged positions because countries have been dumping their US treasuries for years now and, as everyone knows, everything hedge funds touch are leveraged. Oh.

pilkafa

How do you do options in UK?

diefy7321

Are UK hedge funds leveraged on fucking US bonds? Oh my fuck what could go wrong smh

arthriticpug

**1. Perceptron hype (late 1950s–60s)** — Early neural net excitement collapsed after Minsky & Papert’s *Perceptrons* (1969) exposed its limits. **2. First AI Winter (1974–1980)** — Overpromised machine translation and general problem-solving led to funding cuts (Lighthill Report in the UK). **3. Expert Systems boom (early–mid 1980s)** — Companies like Symbolics sold specialized “AI workstations”; the market crashed by 1987. **4. Second AI Winter (late 1980s–90s)** — Expert systems proved brittle and expensive to maintain. **5. Japan’s Fifth Generation Computer Project (1982–1992)** — Massive government bet on logic programming/AI that fizzled. **6. Connectionism/Neural net revival hype (late 1980s)** — Backpropagation excitement outpaced practical results given hardware limits. **7. Dot-com era “AI” branding (late 1990s)** — Many startups slapped “AI” on basic automation to ride internet investment mania. **8. Big Data/Deep Learning hype (2012–2015)** — Post-AlexNet enthusiasm led to inflated startup valuations and “AI-washing.” **9. Self-driving car hype (2015–2019)** — Promises of fully autonomous vehicles “within years” from most major automakers/tech firms didn’t pan out on schedule. **10. Generative AI/LLM boom (2022–present)** — Massive valuations (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and enterprise spending have prompted ongoing debate about whether this is a bubble, given uncertain near-term ROI for many deployments. *brought to you by AI*

BlackKnightsOptions

It's the UK version if the UK version was competent

Salt_Contract342

US version of the UK's Nanny State cameras basically.

Swiftnice

The UK will need much more than that to outperform lol

simplequestions2make

The faster growing south and east are very small. The old guards GDP is barely growing, their militaries are barely top 10. So, maybe if France, UK, Italy combined their countries they’d have a chance. I get US is broke. But still difficult to imagine a world where US isn’t #1.

orsomeshitidk

It’s only a matter of time until the euros start getting American levels of fat. UK already approaching it even though they act superior lol

anonamonamous781

I'm the UK, nobody I know would willingly eat horse.

-mini-kuma

UK traders buying MSCI Japan to 1.3% vs 0.4% domestic closing ( •̯́ ₃ •̯̀)

AMadWalrus

Have you lived in the UK? I did. They’re fat hella there too 😂

imustbegthequestion

Canadia Vulgaris Trumpas Pampas Lagos Veritas Verizon $T bellNorth x UK GBP/USD/EUR/XJPY/CHNXCHFXGHCXRAND

LowKey-Revolution36

Good investment, a Cayman billionaire called Kenneth Dart has bough 30% ownership of Flutter 18% shares + 11% TRS cash settled swaps and he also bought 5,8% of Draftkings a few weeks back, he also owns 30% of Evolution AB the largest B2B casino provider. I don't know if he is just pure speculation or has information but I guess no one knows what a supreme court would rule but these people usually don't loose... If we just look at any country apart from the US, prediction markets either exist under gambling laws and regulations like the UK or outright banned like Brazil and Spain etc. Anyway in general isn't gambling in nature means predicting an outcome? Probably Dart bet is on regulation of predictions and more states legalizing igaming/sportbooks in the US. All countries need tax money especially the US states and gambling with tobacco is the easy tax money. Prediction markets show states that the population gambling appetite is high. These are multi year slow burn play though don't expect a 50-100% bounce back within 6 months. Gambling companies acquired and mainly trade on ev/ebitda not p/s current Flutter Ntm ev/ ebitda is 9,8x I think for multiple countries market leader in any segment which has got big opportunities in Brazil and NA for growth is cheap. Heavily regulated sector so risk is a little higher and different than MSFT or ADBE CRM AMD etc.

Creative-Package6213

This shit wants to drill like a UK Rapper!

QuaintHeadspace

I wish it fucking did. Between inflation, Russian war, brexit and Iran our country is so much poorer as a result. Our food prices are extortionate, energy prices and fuel. All things you cannot be without we are getting gouged from every direction its sad. Disposable income has collapsed in the UK and so many people are poorer. We had government push for EVs then electricity prices spike. My special EV tariff for the off peak prices went up 125% in 1 year. From 4p to 9p per kw/h. So now charging my car costs a fucking fortune.

QuaintHeadspace

Im from the UK and Mango man fucking my shit up. My energy bill is now almost $400 a month it used to be because this guy just cant keep his ego in check. Calls on British energy companies.

SpiderWil

all Iran has to do is nuke the NATO countries then America will be in big trouble, name like UK/France/Germany

Working-Leg-1482

Thank you. We never had car payments, started with beaters and bought all used cars except for a new rav4 as it was a great deal. Never did the daily Dunks run, bagged our lunches, etc. I do realize that 2 million is a lot but I feel like those 2 income steams are not reliable as the 401k could tank in a downturn (not if but when) and SS is going broke so we will inevitably see reduced benefits and/or increased eligibility ages. It’s not the amount of money, it’s the unreliability of it that has me nervous. We are enjoying it in a sense as I stopped working several years ago and I go back and forth between here and the UK to see more of my mom generally, and also to be there for her as needed when health problems crop up (she’s 90)

Nope_______

One for expenses, one for savings, one for my spending money, one for wife's spending money, an HYSA, another HYSA because they had a promo deal, another HYSA because I haven't bothered to consolidate them. One for house maintenance savings,one for pet expenses savings. Brokerage for our investments, brokerage her pre-marriage investments have just stayed in, brokerage for my play account. I'm not even rich rich. I don't think this is at all weird or suspicious in the US, I guess it's different in the UK.

SwordfishOk504

And the UK.

MalikTheHalfBee

What international force? There’s no military in the world apart from maybe the UK, maybe, that could rapidly deploy even a tiny fraction of forces necessary to protect Seoul.  Methinks you know little about either militaries & the geopolitical situation in South Korea. 

WorkSucks135

UK also puts your name on a list if you buy a kitchen knife so not really a good benchmark

Rudybus

UK gov just told people to stockpile food.

ShittyUsernane1222

\> UK saying russia is about the attack the UK \> Russia struggling in Ukraine UK is going to probably counter attack russia so fast that the current russian government falls in less than 12 hours lmao. calls on London stock exchange, His Majesty is going to end the great game once and for all.

ShittyUsernane1222

\> US withdrawing from baltics \> US sending cia director to negotiate with Putin \> Leipzig drone incident at the same day \> 🥭 being unusually friendly with Putin and having an recent conflict with the EU \> Russia targeting the UK , Baltics and Germany specifically im not sherlock, but geopolitics shenanigans will cause an market crash and flash flood of sell orders sometime soon either due to 🥭 and Putin agreeing to carve up europe and dismantle the EU or due to Russia-EU hybrid warfare escalating to the point that Russians hack global financial institutions and try to sabotage the supply chains of NATO countries.

Awkward-Mongoose-809

How is it gonna attack UK? And why UK in particular? Might as well speculate that Russia will attack Argentina, coz why not.

autopilot6236

The sun never set on UK and all that

Aggravating-Sky8572

Its about time. UK has been troublemaker for decades now. All over the world.

JettyJoe

Russia to "attack" UK rumors circulating

ercanbas

Russia will bomb the UK this weekend

texasinv

Believe me I wish we had some of the UK rules, publicly accessible beneficial ownership data for example is a godsend in this line of work.

PiratesOfTheArctic

Previous fraud investigator for UK gov 15+ years, well aware of business operations, if a business has more than 4 accounts we were always notified, same with individuals, was automatic by the banks. The only sector for us that we usually ignored was insolvency as they would have thousands of accounts

No_Run3357

I've no plans, I got a 0% credit card advance a few years back to put all in on a gold explorer which has turned miner and have since paid the mortgage off. Tax position in the UK is more favourable for investing I suspect, but no way in hell would I be doing that at the moment.

Hugsy13

Don’t they have a few hundred thousand subscribers to their $50 a month how to be an alpha course thingy? As much as I wish it were true this sounds like BS. Pretty sure Romania and UK audited them as part of their legal procedures and found tens of millions of dollars at least earnt over the past decade or so.

FinePerformance1046

Some company called Bitstamp UK is doing it on Robinhood at least

FinePerformance1046

Lmao crypto trading just got reintroduced in the UK, totally normal.

volsung37

I don’t know if you invest in UK shares but HAS.L and PAGE.L are doing the business for me now

ercanbas

Russia gonna bomb the UK this week.

KYEEZY98

Dicks is taking a piss as the UK would say

BobbieMaccc

Yes, go UK! we fucking rule! you don't even know it, just this one knows it

4shore_always

The EU isn't in trouble but the UK certainly is as a result of leaving the EU. There's no question the EU has it's problems, but who doesn't.

Amish7

[https://www.nato.int/content/dam/nato/webready/documents/finance/def-exp-2025-en.pdf](https://www.nato.int/content/dam/nato/webready/documents/finance/def-exp-2025-en.pdf), go tariff everyone then! Tariff the whole EU apart from Greece and UK.

givemethebat1

Europe and the UK love Carney (he ran their sovereign bank, don’t forget) and may well see this and decide that appeasement isn’t the right strategy after all. Europe does have more to lose here, though, as they’re in a proxy war with Russia and they need military support.

Fit-Level-4179

I'm a British person who is very obsessed with the miraculous rise of neoliberal/supply side economics and i've got to agree that Britain and America are EXTREMELY intertwined at the top end of things. You may have heard of Cambridge analytica which is a British company that used insane amounts of americans data for political ad targeting. One of its VPs, Bannon, ended up running trumps entire campaign, Cambridge analytica is owned by the mercer family who are the most powerful people in the GOP and have given free services to British politician Nigel Farage when campaigning for Brexit. Don't get me started on Mandelson and Epstein as well, weird as shit. She really isn't as insane as you'd think, our politicians have the same ideas, the same sources of funding, and sleep with the same children as each other. Like it or not the US and UK are connected in a really strange way.

Fit-Level-4179

I'm a British person who is very obsessed with the miraculous rise of neoliberal/supply side economics and i've got to agree that Britain and America are EXTREMELY intertwined at the top end of things. Cambridge analytica was a British company, one of its VPs, Bannon, ended up running trumps entire campaign, Cambridge analytica is owned by the mercer family who are the most powerful people in the GOP. She really isn't as insane as you'd think, our politicians have the same ideas, the same sources of funding, and sleep with the same children as each other. Like it or not the US and UK are connected in a really strange way.

Alert-Plankton-9043

What constitutes a Third World country in your view? You listed France, Germany, and the UK. what about them has changed?

Fresh_Sock8660

They have a branch near where I live (UK), garbage burgers. Cheese felt more like some weird cream.

ercanbas

So Russia is either bombing the UK, nuking Ukraine, or giving up Iran trade in exchange for no US weapons to Ukraine.

Flat-Water-Blaster

Replace the UK with Israel and she might have a point…

LumpyShock9656

As a fellow UK investor. Don't use CFDs.. you're just fundonf T212 for the rest of us.

Thin_Reward

Excellent news, glad to see they’re waking up to the opportunity the UK has here, bodes well for SML also.

TechnicalSleep7501

Standard Chartered is multinational just like Coke to use your example their Pakistan retail business is subsidiary of UK business just like TD retail business in US is subsidiary of Canadian bank.  Apple is American tech company but headquartered in little Ireland for tax purposes.  I used to run online custom clothing business lived in NYC but business was registered as LLC in Delaware. My customers were all over the world from Brazil to Japan.

RichSpecific4490

UK power plant hacked by Iran - RU to sue Google and apologize to Iran for the inconvenience

Phantom_Steve_007

You can't find anyone in the UK who supported BREXIT. I suspect the same will be true of the USA when the odour leaves.

SirNational258

Can't do SPY in the UK. SPX is the alternative I think

Cruian

That doesn't make Standard Charter a frontier market company though. Their HQ being in the UK makes SCA a developed market company even though they operate in frontier markets.

Cruian

>Standard Charted is UK like TD is Canadian but retail branches in Pakistan and US. That headquarters in the UK makes them a developed market company, not frontier.

TechnicalSleep7501

Standard Charted is UK like TD is Canadian but retail branches in Pakistan and US. I like them because they are Kit sponsor of my team Liverpool. My friend used to work from them in foreign currency desk. 

Cruian

That's interesting, but also questionable: On page 2 it lists Vanguard's and iShares' Russell 2000 indexes, though at 0.00% (but if it was actually 0% and not just a rounding thing, why list them at all?). My research into Standard Chartered is showing them as UK based, not Pakistan based. [https://www.sc.com/en/our-locations/](https://www.sc.com/en/our-locations/) and Standard Charter is only only listed once under stock holdings in the [personal1.vanguard.com/funds/ncsr/NCSR56.pdf](http://personal1.vanguard.com/funds/ncsr/NCSR56.pdf) (there is a 2nd mention of Standard Chartered under Forward Currency Contracts). Considering Standard Charter is the 17th largest company in the FTSE 100, it seems likely that that's the one VXUS holds: [https://www.londonstockexchange.com/indices/ftse-100/constituents/table](https://www.londonstockexchange.com/indices/ftse-100/constituents/table)

rukblade

The earliest I'm seeing was Trading 212 in the UK in 2016. Making it probably the second company in the world to do commission-free trading, still twoish years after Robinhood. It seems the European Union was still concerned of the dangers of zero-comission trades in 2021. But please, enlighten me.

DecipherXCI

Went to a Wendy's for the first time last week, not sure how it compares to USA as I went to a UK branch, but it was salty as fuck. Like I dont think Ive ever eaten a burger before an thought "wow thats salty"... neat square patty though, I guess 🤷‍♂️

kisk22

Will you say the same about Germany when AfD gets in power next year? LePen is on track to be the next French President. UKIP and Reform in UK polling shockingly well. Conservatives in Canada will probably win next federal elections (they were on track to until Trump messed with them). What about the far right Brothers of Italy party that currently is in power? It’s not uniquely an American problem. They’re just first.

shamroggg

I have call spread on TTWO for Nov expiry. I used to own CDPR before Cyberpunk release, will come back closer to the W4 release. The problem is that in Poland where I live, gaming companies had IPO boom around covid and had absurd valuations given their portfolio. When it comes to US market, I think that the biggest players are just shit companies (EA, Activision), but I used to own Unity (well, they had EA CEO who was an idiot) and for sure I am going to buy Steam if somehow they ever go public. I know that Devolver Digital is listed in UK, but unfortunately they lost charm recently and aren't that appealing anymore.

No_Veterinarian742

The track record of half assed military interventions by the US is as long as it is tragic. Every real advisor knew that Iran was not going to be a quick intervention. Their terrain and nearly 50 years of preparation has made them uniquely difficult if not impossible to neutralize without a full on ground operation and let's not pretend that the US and the UK didn't play a huge part in enabling the current government in getting into power just like they obviously played a huge role in establishing the boundaries in israel and palestine that are so problematic. I'm not pretending that there is a clear solution to either of these problems and I'd love the iranian system of government to switch but the anti imperialist sentiment in iran for fear of being exploited yet again is going to be very strong for a few generations yet. And there was no clear need to attack Iran other than that Israel has been wanting to do so for decades and felt emboldened by the international community mostly just watching the situation in gaza (again I'm not saying either side is blame free there - it's a horrible situation for both sides in a conflict so old that most people don't remember why they hate each other originally other than they do) and Trump clearly being advised by a small group of people near him that regime change in Iran was possible and that it normally plays well as a political distraction in an election year as a rally around the flag action despite what the intelligence community whose job this is had to say.

SleveBonzalez

At least there are effective methods for removing elected officials who are trying to go solo and insane in the UK. The US seems to have pretty weak "checks and balances."

RagingBearBull

I wonder if he will actually remove China, EU and the UK from the dollar system. Seems like a game of "Let punch ourselves in the dick, that will make everyone like me" .

SeveralBollocks_67

Yeah, UK politics are a model of perfection we should strive for...

zooka19

I'm still jealous. UK Investor, so just DGRW for me. We do have LDGL ETF which is new, but not quite the same.

Unlucky_Anywhere9868

I am actually quite shocked at the average American more than trump! How can you still keep him in office? He's done soo much bat sh*t crazy stuff! If he was here in the UK he'd be in jail! Why no protests? Your losing allies left right and center, these relationships take years to build. It's no as easy as when trump leaves everything's going back to normal

CaptainCastle1

You realize that the a protest in the UK is like one or two states here protesting? We have fifty of em bud….

saintmitchy

It cost me $70 to fill up a Toyota Yaris in the UK

Dull_Policy_1617

Learn from the Europeans how to protest. You should be turning the place upside down. Things change real quick when people get active. UK has had 5 PM’s in 5 years because the people were pissed off and sent a message. You have been apathetic for too long.

LeftDevice8718

The UK has less risk with more immediate trading partners adjacent to the borders and the whole EU. Canada has 1 country and 2 oceans separating it from non-US trading partners.

theydontlikeitupems

Europe has had enough Canada has had enough UK too trumps tariffs are going to hurt the USA big time once allies start to trade more amongst themselves it's hard times for USA Europe and UK are already looking at ways to have their own visa MasterCard systems I can see this accelerate while trump is in power his economics are sad bad and terrible for the world economy Americans expect to be more poor soon

etOilers

Any country, including Canada and the Europeans/UK, that isn't actively preparing for a potential hot war or other violent conflict with the US some time in the next 50 years is just not paying attention

Budget-Security-8132

This looks like something the UK would agree to.

Ok_Analyst_5640

So basically become a US state but enjoy none of the perks of being one. Good grief, this is dire. I hope Canada can build strong trade relationships with the EU, UK, China and Mexico.

Bravadette

In the UK lol

No_Presentation9490

bessent knows exactly what hes doing. handpicked by soros himself to help scam the UK out of billions

Tiziano7018

He heard bonds, and was thinking of James Bond, so he wanted to wage war to UK.

TodayIsTheDayTrader

He is talking about the war in Iran in reference to military intervention, the problem is, the reason the bond market has risen isn’t affected by the war. The straight could be open tomorrow and the bond market isn’t going to change. The bond market rose upon the release of true treasury debt being over 40t. As a borrower with that much debt your a risky investment, so in order to loan you money, lenders want more interest due to the risk of the borrower. It’s all connected but Iran or even military spending isn’t the sole contributor… we have passed the first time in history that our payments into social programs was higher than our GDP, the same problem France, Germany, the UK are experiencing. Is anyone in this administration capable of doing what’s necessary to handle this problem… I personally don’t think so. But I will also say this is the culmination of 30 years of policy makers being asleep at the wheel. Good news is due to the speed of globalization if we fail the world fails so it will be a problem everyone will be forced to pitch in for. Kinda like 2008.

SignificanceLate7002

Making a list of fights that 🥭 is currently in. Feel free to add any I've missed. Iran, Canada, Greenland, Denmark, UK, Cuba, South Korea, China, Venezuela, the radical left, the bond market, Oil prices, the press, the Constitution, immunizations, public health, education, reality, Rosie O'Donnell, Kimmel, Swiftees, and public approval.

Alex-SW19

Come and do more business with the UK, we need your natural resources and you need our professional services.

neontetra1548

1) Voluntary agreement from the UK to enter into those terms originally not coerced by insane abusive superpower. 2) Once in those terms and in the EU there were advantages to remaining in it and disadvantages to breaking it. \#1 is pretty important though don't you think? Like regardless of the rest that's kind of crucial. The UK wasn't coerced in through threats and hegemonic power and the UK was free to leave as well, as happened.

MuayThai252

Carney loves the EU and was fervent remoaner, why is it okay for the UK but not for Canada?

Nope_______

No, it's referencing his daring escape in the catering cart in Turkey when he fled both of his 747s to take a normal military jet to the UK

axewoodsman

Selling the treasury bonds is already a given, as they reduce trade with US and diversifying abroad. That is why we have been seeing Bond Yield climbing to new highs since 2007. Many countries are doing the same. UK and Japan will be force to sell as well, they are going broke.

MagnesiumKitten

Statistics Canada February 2026 Canada's 10 principal trading partners – Balance-of-payments basis, seasonally adjusted, current dollars **Trade balance** United States 11,944 millions of dollars United Kingdom 1,834 million \[UK is buying Gold Bullion\] Netherlands 68 million \[Aluminium with the cheap Can Dollar\] Japan -29 million Switzerland -55 million Italy -430 million South Korea -639 million Germany -814 million Mexico -1,677 million China -2,880 million Holland needs to buy 200x the aluminum to pay for your light bills I guess

Optimal-Cow-3278

Why did the EU, South Korea, Japan and the UK made agreements “in this setting”?

magicbellend

Not sure what you are asking - if your asking about data residency then there are various different ways you can use GCP or Azure to keep data in EU or UK locales

SignificanceLate7002

Canada has made deals with China, Germany, UK, UAE, India and more in the last 18 months.

Goldpeaches32

I believe anything inside USA, Canada, or UK is a 3rd world country

Buddah_Chillz420

Governments can still collect taxes on alcohol in a private or semi-private system. This is hardly a ‘libertarian’ point of view. Nearly all western nations with alcohol sales are not government monopolies. UK, Australia, EU… if I were libertarian I would be advocating making my own moonshine and selling it on my property tax free. That’s not what I am suggesting.

Eyoba_19

Yeah, IB are quite hard to get passed, but they're kind of the jack of all trades when it comes to trading, they just do EVERYTHING and to be fair quite well too. Happy to help, but if you're in the UK I understand the tax benefits you get from IG, so moving over to IB might not be ideal.

Tay_Tay86

yes they can do that. our oil prices would get cut, but the problem is that it would increase prices in competing markets, like brent. The UK and Japan hold a lot of US debt, in order to buy oil, they would have to sell treasuries. This could create higher interest rates. That's my opinion on what export controls would do. If you burn the entire world by shutting your door, then they are going to ask for their money back.

Eyoba_19

Yeah heard they're famous in the UK for that. Just checked for myself, they're about 2.5%+ the benchmark, which is quite high compared to IB. Not to push you over to them or anything but thought you should know. If IG does options and spreads are good you can do the strat there too

Automatic-Cake-8770

Oh really? Which ones or all? Rigged 😂 I was in the gme short squeeze with longs at first on January 2021, I was doing it with IBKR at the time, I think i had maybe 20 ish positions total throughout the run and never had any issues at all. I know that folk daytrade shorting had issues but simply due to real shortage of shares to borrow at times - never issues to open long/closing short or halting. I have UK equivalent of US's roth ira (stocks ISA) on Trading 212 and theres been issues on 212 too both opening and closing positions during gme run.

Tammer_Stern

For context, Switzerland is under 1% and China is around 1.7%. The UK is over 5%.

Automatic-Cake-8770

Yep that makes sense. We have a bank in the UK with bottom end value for money but glorious UI and it's taking market by the storm (Monzo bank). Same with popular trading vendor Trading212, no options but great UI and you can short as CFD on margin etc. Back to real brokers u guys have tastytrade tho innit? App is shit but webui is decent no? Does tt have a big market share? Never see tt screenshots here or on wsb