Our editors choose their favourite stories and reading recommendations of the past week.
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As another week ends, our editors have chosen another selection of stories that have caught their imagination. With a variety of different interests at heart and recommended reading topics that range from the peculiar to the thought-provoking, each editor takes his turn to enlighten us.
Sylvester Majewski kicks off with a tongue-in-cheek article article about how the US elections were 'rigged'...
It Was Rigged!
I do not usually comment on politics. This time, however, I have chosen to do so, just to show how much trading relies on psychology. It is fascinating how the same mechanisms, both psychological and social, work in all areas of our life.
Sylwester Majewski Chief Analyst
One of the articles I recently found brought me to this realization – we are all prone to be subjective in our verdicts and it is very difficult to sustain clear judgment.
We often feel that when we are losing the whole world is against us. It is especially visible in trading, where all our mistakes and losing trades are very easy to explain and where we cannot accept failure. Failure is always 'unfair'.
Before revealing the subject of the article, let me remind you of Donald Trump’s rhetoric from the election campaign. Since the polls did not favor him, he came up with an explanation as to why he was going to lose elections – because whole thing was "rigged" to favor Hilary Clinton. Easy, right?
While maybe even he believed it, his opponents were laughing. A few weeks later, after Donald Trump won the election, the situation repeated itself, although this time in the opposite direction. I found a series of articles claiming that Trump’s win was rigged and one in particular was from the Rolling Stone online edition. That’s right – "it was rigged… because we did not win".
I do not have to mention that such claims came from Clinton’s supporters. Even funnier is that Trump’s supporters no longer claim that the whole thing was rigged like they used to. Since they won, it has since become fair.
What a surprise. Do you recall your last trade when you were blaiming the unfair market for your loss and not being able to accept it? I do, plenty of them!
Like the author, I used to be a part of the once thriving BBS community, before the internet came along, and even operated my own BBS. For anyone with a similar background reading it will be a nostalgia-rich trip down memory lane, like rediscovering an old friend you haven’t met in 20 years.
For anyone that was too young to know the pleasures of the BBS experience, this can serve as a valuable education on the online world before the popular adoption of the world-wide web.
A time when it required programming skills, time and dedication to create a personal digital experience, a sharp contrast to today’s impersonal and unchangeable services of facebook or twitter where the user is just the product.
The Universe Just Got Bigger
People this year have been used to life on a completely different scale: big news, big market moves, big hands – however the biggest development of all could be how truly vast the universe is, or rather how small we are in relation to it.
Jeff Patterson, Senior Editor
While the known size or nature of the universe itself is to many either a vast unimaginable construct, or just a meaningless void, a recent article on Astronomy.com touches on how wrong previous estimates really were on the subject.
Recent data and mathematical modeling from the Hubble and other telescopes show the universe is larger by upwards of ten times its previous estimates.
For many, this news fails to move the needle – after all what is infinity multiplied by 10 on one’s calculator? (Spoiler alert: the number is still infinite). What this does suggest however is how large our known, and unknown universe is, which was previously pegged at around 200 billion galaxies.
Unfortunately, this recent revelation does not imply a groundswell of galaxies that can be immediately observed as it depends on our technology being able to effectively view an ocean of stars. Rather, observing the vastness of space is a look back in time, with even our most advanced telescopes unable to register every galaxy.
In more technical terms, galaxies appear to clump together as time goes by, accreting into larger structures whilst also reducing the total number of galaxies present.
By running this rate backward and calculating beyond what scientists can currently observe, researchers have concluded that around 90 percent of the galaxies in the cosmos are too faint and too far away to view with current telescopes.
As such, this is what allowed them to drastically increase the current estimation of the number of observable galaxies.
We conclude another week of stories that our editors are reading. Feel free to share your views in the comment section and any recommendations of your own. We look forward to hearing your opinions!
As another week ends, our editors have chosen another selection of stories that have caught their imagination. With a variety of different interests at heart and recommended reading topics that range from the peculiar to the thought-provoking, each editor takes his turn to enlighten us.
Sylvester Majewski kicks off with a tongue-in-cheek article article about how the US elections were 'rigged'...
It Was Rigged!
I do not usually comment on politics. This time, however, I have chosen to do so, just to show how much trading relies on psychology. It is fascinating how the same mechanisms, both psychological and social, work in all areas of our life.
Sylwester Majewski Chief Analyst
One of the articles I recently found brought me to this realization – we are all prone to be subjective in our verdicts and it is very difficult to sustain clear judgment.
We often feel that when we are losing the whole world is against us. It is especially visible in trading, where all our mistakes and losing trades are very easy to explain and where we cannot accept failure. Failure is always 'unfair'.
Before revealing the subject of the article, let me remind you of Donald Trump’s rhetoric from the election campaign. Since the polls did not favor him, he came up with an explanation as to why he was going to lose elections – because whole thing was "rigged" to favor Hilary Clinton. Easy, right?
While maybe even he believed it, his opponents were laughing. A few weeks later, after Donald Trump won the election, the situation repeated itself, although this time in the opposite direction. I found a series of articles claiming that Trump’s win was rigged and one in particular was from the Rolling Stone online edition. That’s right – "it was rigged… because we did not win".
I do not have to mention that such claims came from Clinton’s supporters. Even funnier is that Trump’s supporters no longer claim that the whole thing was rigged like they used to. Since they won, it has since become fair.
What a surprise. Do you recall your last trade when you were blaiming the unfair market for your loss and not being able to accept it? I do, plenty of them!
Like the author, I used to be a part of the once thriving BBS community, before the internet came along, and even operated my own BBS. For anyone with a similar background reading it will be a nostalgia-rich trip down memory lane, like rediscovering an old friend you haven’t met in 20 years.
For anyone that was too young to know the pleasures of the BBS experience, this can serve as a valuable education on the online world before the popular adoption of the world-wide web.
A time when it required programming skills, time and dedication to create a personal digital experience, a sharp contrast to today’s impersonal and unchangeable services of facebook or twitter where the user is just the product.
The Universe Just Got Bigger
People this year have been used to life on a completely different scale: big news, big market moves, big hands – however the biggest development of all could be how truly vast the universe is, or rather how small we are in relation to it.
Jeff Patterson, Senior Editor
While the known size or nature of the universe itself is to many either a vast unimaginable construct, or just a meaningless void, a recent article on Astronomy.com touches on how wrong previous estimates really were on the subject.
Recent data and mathematical modeling from the Hubble and other telescopes show the universe is larger by upwards of ten times its previous estimates.
For many, this news fails to move the needle – after all what is infinity multiplied by 10 on one’s calculator? (Spoiler alert: the number is still infinite). What this does suggest however is how large our known, and unknown universe is, which was previously pegged at around 200 billion galaxies.
Unfortunately, this recent revelation does not imply a groundswell of galaxies that can be immediately observed as it depends on our technology being able to effectively view an ocean of stars. Rather, observing the vastness of space is a look back in time, with even our most advanced telescopes unable to register every galaxy.
In more technical terms, galaxies appear to clump together as time goes by, accreting into larger structures whilst also reducing the total number of galaxies present.
By running this rate backward and calculating beyond what scientists can currently observe, researchers have concluded that around 90 percent of the galaxies in the cosmos are too faint and too far away to view with current telescopes.
As such, this is what allowed them to drastically increase the current estimation of the number of observable galaxies.
We conclude another week of stories that our editors are reading. Feel free to share your views in the comment section and any recommendations of your own. We look forward to hearing your opinions!
Only 7% of New XTB Clients Pick CFDs Now, Down From 80% in 2019
Hannah Hill on Innovation, Branding & Award-Winning Technology | Executive Interview | AXI
Hannah Hill on Innovation, Branding & Award-Winning Technology | Executive Interview | AXI
Recorded live at FMLS:25, this executive interview features Hannah Hill, Head of Brand and Sponsorship at AXI, in conversation with Finance Magnates, following AXI’s win for Most Innovative Broker of the Year 2025.
In this wide-ranging discussion, Hannah shares insights on:
🔹What winning the Finance Magnates award means for AXI’s credibility and innovation
🔹How the launch of AXI Select, the capital allocation program, is redefining industry standards
🔹The development and rollout of the AXI trading app across multiple markets
🔹Driving brand evolution alongside technological advancements
🔹Encouraging and recognizing teams behind the scenes
🔹The role of marketing, content, and social media in building product awareness
Hannah explains why standout products, strategic branding, and a focus on innovation are key to growing visibility and staying ahead in a competitive brokerage landscape.
🏆 Award Highlight: Most Innovative Broker of the Year 2025
👉 Subscribe to Finance Magnates for more executive interviews, industry insights, and exclusive coverage from the world’s leading financial events.
#FMLS25 #FinanceMagnates #MostInnovativeBroker #TradingTechnology #FinTech #Brokerage #ExecutiveInterview #AXI
Recorded live at FMLS:25, this executive interview features Hannah Hill, Head of Brand and Sponsorship at AXI, in conversation with Finance Magnates, following AXI’s win for Most Innovative Broker of the Year 2025.
In this wide-ranging discussion, Hannah shares insights on:
🔹What winning the Finance Magnates award means for AXI’s credibility and innovation
🔹How the launch of AXI Select, the capital allocation program, is redefining industry standards
🔹The development and rollout of the AXI trading app across multiple markets
🔹Driving brand evolution alongside technological advancements
🔹Encouraging and recognizing teams behind the scenes
🔹The role of marketing, content, and social media in building product awareness
Hannah explains why standout products, strategic branding, and a focus on innovation are key to growing visibility and staying ahead in a competitive brokerage landscape.
🏆 Award Highlight: Most Innovative Broker of the Year 2025
👉 Subscribe to Finance Magnates for more executive interviews, industry insights, and exclusive coverage from the world’s leading financial events.
#FMLS25 #FinanceMagnates #MostInnovativeBroker #TradingTechnology #FinTech #Brokerage #ExecutiveInterview #AXI
Executive Interview | Dor Eligula | Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, BridgeWise | FMLS:25
Executive Interview | Dor Eligula | Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, BridgeWise | FMLS:25
In this session, Jonathan Fine form Ultimate Group speaks with Dor Eligula from Bridgewise, a fast-growing AI-powered research and analytics firm supporting brokers and exchanges worldwide.
We start with Dor’s reaction to the Summit and then move to broker growth and the quick wins brokers often overlook. Dor shares where he sees “blue ocean” growth across Asian markets and how local client behaviour shapes demand.
We also discuss the rollout of AI across investment research. Dor gives real examples of how automation and human judgment meet at Bridgewise — including moments when analysts corrected AI output, and times when AI prevented an error.
We close with a practical question: how retail investors can actually use AI without falling into common traps.
In this session, Jonathan Fine form Ultimate Group speaks with Dor Eligula from Bridgewise, a fast-growing AI-powered research and analytics firm supporting brokers and exchanges worldwide.
We start with Dor’s reaction to the Summit and then move to broker growth and the quick wins brokers often overlook. Dor shares where he sees “blue ocean” growth across Asian markets and how local client behaviour shapes demand.
We also discuss the rollout of AI across investment research. Dor gives real examples of how automation and human judgment meet at Bridgewise — including moments when analysts corrected AI output, and times when AI prevented an error.
We close with a practical question: how retail investors can actually use AI without falling into common traps.
Brendan Callan joined us fresh off the Summit’s most anticipated debate: “Is Prop Trading Good for the Industry?” Brendan argued against the motion — and the audience voted him the winner.
In this interview, Brendan explains the reasoning behind his position. He walks through the message he believes many firms avoid: that the current prop trading model is too dependent on fees, too loose on risk, and too confusing for retail audiences.
We discuss why he thinks the model grew fast, why it may run into walls, and what he believes is needed for a cleaner, more responsible version of prop trading.
This is Brendan at his frankest — sharp, grounded, and very clear about what changes are overdue.
Brendan Callan joined us fresh off the Summit’s most anticipated debate: “Is Prop Trading Good for the Industry?” Brendan argued against the motion — and the audience voted him the winner.
In this interview, Brendan explains the reasoning behind his position. He walks through the message he believes many firms avoid: that the current prop trading model is too dependent on fees, too loose on risk, and too confusing for retail audiences.
We discuss why he thinks the model grew fast, why it may run into walls, and what he believes is needed for a cleaner, more responsible version of prop trading.
This is Brendan at his frankest — sharp, grounded, and very clear about what changes are overdue.
Elina Pedersen on Growth, Stability & Ultra-Low Latency | Executive Interview | Your Bourse
Elina Pedersen on Growth, Stability & Ultra-Low Latency | Executive Interview | Your Bourse
Recorded live at FMLS:25 London, this executive interview features Elina Pedersen, in conversation with Finance Magnates, following her company’s win for Best Connectivity 2025.
🔹In this wide-ranging discussion, Elina shares insights on:
🔹What winning a Finance Magnates award means for credibility and reputation
🔹How broker demand for stability and reliability is driving rapid growth
🔹The launch of a new trade server enabling flexible front-end integrations
🔹Why ultra-low latency must be proven with data, not buzzwords
🔹Common mistakes brokers make when scaling globally
🔹Educating the industry through a newly launched Dealers Academy
🔹Where AI fits into trading infrastructure and where it doesn’t
Elina explains why resilient back-end infrastructure, deep client partnerships, and disciplined focus are critical for brokers looking to scale sustainably in today’s competitive market.
🏆 Award Highlight: Best Connectivity 2025
👉 Subscribe to Finance Magnates for more executive interviews, industry insights, and exclusive coverage from the world’s leading financial events.
#FMLS25 #FinanceMagnates #BestConnectivity #TradingTechnology #UltraLowLatency #FinTech #Brokerage #ExecutiveInterview
Recorded live at FMLS:25 London, this executive interview features Elina Pedersen, in conversation with Finance Magnates, following her company’s win for Best Connectivity 2025.
🔹In this wide-ranging discussion, Elina shares insights on:
🔹What winning a Finance Magnates award means for credibility and reputation
🔹How broker demand for stability and reliability is driving rapid growth
🔹The launch of a new trade server enabling flexible front-end integrations
🔹Why ultra-low latency must be proven with data, not buzzwords
🔹Common mistakes brokers make when scaling globally
🔹Educating the industry through a newly launched Dealers Academy
🔹Where AI fits into trading infrastructure and where it doesn’t
Elina explains why resilient back-end infrastructure, deep client partnerships, and disciplined focus are critical for brokers looking to scale sustainably in today’s competitive market.
🏆 Award Highlight: Best Connectivity 2025
👉 Subscribe to Finance Magnates for more executive interviews, industry insights, and exclusive coverage from the world’s leading financial events.
#FMLS25 #FinanceMagnates #BestConnectivity #TradingTechnology #UltraLowLatency #FinTech #Brokerage #ExecutiveInterview
In this video, we take an in-depth look at @BlueberryMarketsForex , a forex and CFD broker operating since 2016, offering access to multiple trading platforms, over 1,000 instruments, and flexible account types for different trading styles.
We break down Blueberry’s regulatory structure, including its Australian Financial Services License (AFSL), as well as its authorisation and registrations in other jurisdictions. The review also covers supported platforms such as MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, TradingView, Blueberry.X, and web-based trading.
You’ll learn about available instruments across forex, commodities, indices, share CFDs, and crypto CFDs, along with leverage options, minimum and maximum trade sizes, and how Blueberry structures its Standard and Raw accounts.
We also explain spreads, commissions, swap rates, swap-free account availability, funding and withdrawal methods, processing times, and what traders can expect from customer support and additional services.
Watch the full review to see whether Blueberry’s trading setup aligns with your experience level, strategy, and risk tolerance.
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In this video, we take an in-depth look at @BlueberryMarketsForex , a forex and CFD broker operating since 2016, offering access to multiple trading platforms, over 1,000 instruments, and flexible account types for different trading styles.
We break down Blueberry’s regulatory structure, including its Australian Financial Services License (AFSL), as well as its authorisation and registrations in other jurisdictions. The review also covers supported platforms such as MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, TradingView, Blueberry.X, and web-based trading.
You’ll learn about available instruments across forex, commodities, indices, share CFDs, and crypto CFDs, along with leverage options, minimum and maximum trade sizes, and how Blueberry structures its Standard and Raw accounts.
We also explain spreads, commissions, swap rates, swap-free account availability, funding and withdrawal methods, processing times, and what traders can expect from customer support and additional services.
Watch the full review to see whether Blueberry’s trading setup aligns with your experience level, strategy, and risk tolerance.
📣 Stay up to date with the latest in finance and trading. Follow Finance Magnates for industry news, insights, and global event coverage.
Connect with us:
🔗 LinkedIn: /financemagnates
👍 Facebook: /financemagnates
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/financemagnates
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🎥 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tag/financemagnates
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