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FXCM's August 2011 Monthly Metrics - Crazy August means volumes are up!
- As we already know August was one crazy (volatile) month. This means two things - brokers will report volumes higher than the average and many traders will have lost money. We'll see this reflected both in the public brokers' data, such as FXCM below, and in this quarter's profitability report (due in October). Not surprisingly FXCM shows a very strong growth in volumes, especially institutional ones, amid slow growth in number of accounts.
Thursday, 15/09/2011 | 21:11 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Comparing FX brokers - same milk different bottle!
- Traders often look to compare brokers which is a natural human tendency. Once you are with a broker and make use of their services you use them as a benchmark when looking at new firms to trade with.
Wednesday, 14/09/2011 | 23:11 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
FXCM to Acquire Japanese Forex Broker Foreland Forex Co., Ltd.
- FXCM has just annouced that its fully owned subsidiary FXCM Japan has agreed to acquire another Japanese broker named Foreland Forex (https://www.foreland.co.jp/). Details of the transaction were not disclosed at this point but we show see more in the next FXCM's quarterly report.
Wednesday, 14/09/2011 | 18:33 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
WSJ: BNY Mellon Forex Trades Cost Pensions
- WSJ continues its zealous coverage of the BNY Mellon investigation. With Bank of New York Mellon Corp. under growing scrutiny by regulators for its trading practices on behalf of pension funds, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows that the bank executed some currency transactions for two large public pension funds in a way that could trigger higher costs.
Wednesday, 14/09/2011 | 08:06 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Saxo Bank announces new offshore Renminbi CNH trading facility
- Saxo Bank just announced that it will now allow offshore renminbi trading against the USD. Saxo thus is joining the likes of HSBC and BMO who already allow this type of trading. As we already mentioned few times, it may be a sign of China opening up for retail forex trading in the near future. FX Options and swaps can already be traded onshore.
Tuesday, 13/09/2011 | 08:17 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
A new US retail forex broker is born - OptionsXpress registers as an RFED
- As expected OptionXpress has registered as an RFED with the CFTC and will soon become open for retail forex business. XPRESSTRADE, LLC (www.xtfx.com) is capitalized at $22,841,980 and already has $17,720 in retail forex customers obligations. OptionsXpress is the second 'traditional' broker to start offering retail foreign exchange after TradeStation.
Monday, 12/09/2011 | 12:43 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC sues 11 more firms for accepting US retail forex clients
Thursday, 08/09/2011 | 17:56 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
TradoLogic Proud to Announce Launch of New Brand XPmarkets
- XPmarkets is the newest brand launched by TradoLogic, the world's leading binary options platform provider. The new trading platform will primarily target the French market, aiming to teach end-users to become professional traders.
Wednesday, 31/08/2011 | 14:00 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
TPG Capital buys 30% of Saxo Bank valuing it at $1.87 Billion
- TPG Capital, the private equity firm started by David Bonderman, bought a 30 percent stake in Denmark’s Saxo Bank A/S, and plans to expand the asset manager and online trader in emerging markets, Bloomberg reports.
Friday, 26/08/2011 | 08:23 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
OANDA acquires a Japanese broker and establishes OANDA Japan
Monday, 22/08/2011 | 09:00 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Gain Capital launches new pricing comparison for enhanced accuracy
Friday, 19/08/2011 | 11:11 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
London Capital Group reports 4% increase in FX profits
Thursday, 18/08/2011 | 14:44 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
Saxo Bank announces H1 2011 results - revenue steady, average monthly volume $232 Billion
Thursday, 18/08/2011 | 12:28 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
NFA fines FXCM $2 million for slippage malpractices, FXCM will credit clients back
- Apparently Non Dealing Desk doesn't mean you get the best execution - NFA has just announced that it heavily fined FXCM for slippage malpractices. FXCM will pay $2 million directly to NFA and will compensate all customers who suffered from this practice since June 2008. The details of this case are not much different from the similar fine of $459k which NFA imposed on Gain Capital for using the Virtual Dealing plugin and similar slippage settings.
Saturday, 13/08/2011 | 17:14 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
FXCM Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2011 Results and July Operating Metrics - Revenues up, Volume down
Thursday, 11/08/2011 | 10:50 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC releases Q2 2011 financial data - overall retail forex deposits are $9 million lower
- CFTC requires all its members to submit their own capital reports and for members (RFEDs and FCMs) the amount of retail forex obligations. For some reason this report wasn't made public since April and now CFTC made available the monthly reports for May, June and July. This allows us to track the amount of retail forex obligations for all US retail forex brokers.
Thursday, 11/08/2011 | 07:29 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Australian Retail Forex Boom Part II
- Continuing our coverage of the emerging retail forex markets below is the 2nd part of our Australia retail forex market coverage. This time we interview Chris Reynolds the COO of Go Markets - one of Australia's larges retail forex brokers.
Wednesday, 10/08/2011 | 09:40 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Saxo Bank launches Forex Binary Options
- In our recent interview Claus Nielsen, Global Head of trading, hinted that Saxo would launch binary options soon. This didn't take long and Saxo announced that they will be offering Binary Touch options in six currency pairs.
Monday, 08/08/2011 | 19:55 GMT by
Guest Contributors
Retail Forex Market Volume is $237 Billion/day - Latest Forex Magnates Quarterly Report
- What is found below is the most complete retail forex volumes survey and estimation that has been compiled in recent years. This survey is the result of discussions and surveys made with hundreds of brokers, liquidity and software providers and other market participants. Although this figure is not perfect it is as accurate as a survey of this very private market can get. This survey humbly started in Q2 2009 and two years later it encompasses almost all significant brokers out of a list of several hundred that operate in this market.
Thursday, 04/08/2011 | 12:15 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
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