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[list=1][*]Perhaps more importantly, I wish to understand if the potential client-broker conflict of interest is significantly greater with one broker than another. I am making money here at the the moment and it is coming from someplace. By my understanding, a market-maker has to cover his exposure to my own position, possibly by netting off my position against the opposite positions of other customers or by heading into the market himself. My theory was that a non-market-maker was not himself vulnerable to my position and that therefore a conflict of interest...