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Warning: don't deal with 796.com!
by
yellowbrickroad
on 21/07/2015, 06:50:40 UTC
796.com is a Hong Kong based exchange where you can trade BTC and LTC futures.

My own experience:
I have been using this service for more than 1 year.

2 weeks ago I've bought LTC at ~$5.00, have sold and opened short position at ~$6.00, and closed short position at ~$4.5 (on July 11)
my net profit was ~550 LTC (I've shorted LTC futures to hedge my LTC holdings on another exchange, to compensate my losses due to LTC price decline).

I have seen this profit on my account balance but it has disappeared soon.
when I've contacted support, they told me they have "socialized" 73.97% of profit of their users because LTC price moved violent last week.

https://796.com/ltcFutures/settle?lang=en here you can see that 796 guys have "socialized" or maybe "expropriated" 73.97% of profit of their users on July 11 and ~45.1% on July 4.

Is it legal? Have you ever experienced something like that with btc-e or other exchange margin trading?

Is there any scam list to add this service?