Daily FX Brokers’ News: ThinkForex, Darwinex & OANDA

ThinkForex Alters Leverage Ratio

ThinkForex, a provider of foreign exchange (FX) and contracts-for-difference (CFDs), has made a series of changes to the leverage of select trading instruments.

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Darwinex Ravamps MT4 Platform with New Changes

Darwinex is presently in the process of changing its existing MT4 infrastructure to cater to the new atmosphere provided by its foray into the Equinix LD4 datacenter. The broker is eying a newly revamped MT4 environment that will institute a number of alterations.

A comprehensive timezone change to the Eastern Standard Time (NY) close, which will result in only five daily candles a week. Moreover, Darwinex has augmented the scope of its history data for backtesting purposes. Finally, an expanded list of indices and commodities will be tradable on its MT4 platform.

AMF Unveils New Warning List

L’Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has updated its list of unauthorized websites offering of binary options trading in France from a previous list that was published back on September 2, 2015.

The newly updated list includes websites offering binary options trading for which no authorized investment service provider could be clearly identified. The list can be viewed in full by accessing the following link.

OANDA Undergoes Precious Metal Trading Hour Halt

OANDA has updated its trading hours for all its precious metals, including gold (XAU), silver (XAG), palladium (XPD/USD), and platinum (XPT/USD). The changes have come as a result of an extension of the maintenance window by its Liquidity Liquidity The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent Read this Term partners.

Consequently, a normal trading halt from 22:14 to 23:00GMT has been extended and will now begin at 21:59 until 23:00 GMT.