brokers
FxPro Executes Record Number of Trades as US Dollar Slid on Tuesday
- The broker has surpassed its previous record number of trades by almost 60% as the euro staged its biggest single day rally since October 2014 after a potential Greek debt-swap deal, before Greek FinMin talks with ECB.
Wednesday, 04/02/2015 | 17:56 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
What Lies Ahead for TechFinancials Once It IPOs in London?
- Jonathan Morris of the international law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP outlines the challenges and opportunities awaiting the first binary options company aiming to go public and the factors that will determine whether or not this move will open the door for the next companies in line.
Wednesday, 04/02/2015 | 13:10 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
Exclusive: FXCM Inc. CEO Drew Niv Discusses Firm's Future after the CHF Crisis
- Mr. Niv sheds light on Black Thursday's unfolding at FXCM: how did the systems react, what caused the $225 million loss and how many clients held long Swiss franc positions for a total market exposure of over $1 billion?
Wednesday, 04/02/2015 | 11:41 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Correction/Consolidation in USD Should Be around the Corner
- The DXY has now approached the target region of 96-97 this past week, with a high struck at 95.48. However, not only have we come up shy of our ideal target, but the pattern in wave Vof (3) does not yet look complete.
Wednesday, 04/02/2015 | 10:37 GMT by
Guest Contributors
Tradimo to Launch Chinese & Arabic, Partners Exclusively with One Financial Markets
- The broker will get exclusive advertising space on the trading school’s new offering launching in the second quarter of 2015, targeting a set of lucrative markets with information in Chinese and Arabic languages.
Wednesday, 04/02/2015 | 09:11 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
FX Volumes for GMO Click Securities Rise 14% in January 2015, Set New Record
- In contradiction to the FX volume record, trading in exchange products on GMO’s Click 365 solution totaled only 523,397 contracts in January 2015, which is down about a 9.8% drop month-over-month.
Wednesday, 04/02/2015 | 07:08 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
Monex Global FX Trading Volumes Drop by 5.4% in January 2015
- The average FX trade value per business day decreased by 1.4% Month-Over-Month to just ¥250,658 million, which partly explains the overall drop in the volumes combined with the fewer working days.
Wednesday, 04/02/2015 | 06:41 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
Autochartist Partners with Te Mata to Deliver Automatic Chart Pattern Trading Platform
- Automated trading is gaining traction as the veteran provider of pattern recognition software is now delivering a full platform suite developed in partnership with a New Zealand software company.
Tuesday, 03/02/2015 | 16:40 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Interfax Survey: 3 Brokers Control 60% of Russian FX Market, 66% of Traders Lose
- A report by Interfax-CEA reveals some telling findings about the local market in 2014, including an extensive brokers' ranking by trading volumes and an assessment of traders' number and average deposits.
Tuesday, 03/02/2015 | 15:42 GMT by
Jeff Patterson
Chris Sacca, the $4 Million Negative Balance, The Salinger Group and Twitter
Tuesday, 03/02/2015 | 14:45 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Exhaustion Price Action in USD/CAD Suggests Pullback, Buying Opportunity
Tuesday, 03/02/2015 | 14:00 GMT by
#Trading People
Russia-Focused Panteon Finance Loses Substantial Amount of Client Funds
- The head of the financial department of the company has been transferring client funds to binary options trading accounts at an Asian brokerage, prompting founders to look how to keep the brokerage solvent.
Tuesday, 03/02/2015 | 10:09 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Commodities Corner (Part 2): Cotton Market from A to Z
- Cotton prices have plunged since May 2014, due to global shift in production in the wake of the rise of India. Sensus Capital's Vladimir Petropoljac goes from the fields where it is produced to your portfolio.
Tuesday, 03/02/2015 | 09:52 GMT by
Guest Contributors
LQD Markets to Go after Negative Balances, Client Funds "Appear to Have a Deficit"
- The UK-based broker which faced bankruptcy in the aftermath of the CHF storm has officially entered special administration. The firm's insolvency micro-site bears some dire news for clients regarding their funds.
Tuesday, 03/02/2015 | 09:25 GMT by
Finance Magnates Staff
Breaking: GAIN Capital Increases Margin Requirements on Pegged Currencies
- Active risk management of exposure at the major publicly listed brokerage continues with the latest round of margin increases concerning a number of pegged currencies and some managed floats in central Europe.
Tuesday, 03/02/2015 | 08:05 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Overall Trading Activity Positive at Interactive Brokers in January as Traders Embrace SNB Shake-Up
- Interactive Brokers reports strong financial trading data for the month of January. Overall metrics were higher on a YoY and MoM basis for its DARTs and the total number of trading accounts held at the firm.
Monday, 02/02/2015 | 18:21 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
Forex Isn't Riskier than Any Other Asset Class, A Talk With GAIN's CEO Glenn Stevens
- Forex Magnates discusses with GAIN Capital’s CEO, Glenn Stevens, why contrary to various media reports, the foreign exchange market isn’t much different and isn’t in anyway riskier than any other asset class.
Monday, 02/02/2015 | 18:07 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
ADS London Launches Retail Brokerage as Capitalization Doubles Post CHF Crisis
- ADS Securities London goes after the retail FX, CFD and Spread Betting market in Europe with new MT4 offering. Speaking with Forex Magnates, Managing Director James Watson explains that deep pockets ensure risk management.
Monday, 02/02/2015 | 16:37 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
Falling FXCM Share Prices Trigger Margin Call for Company Co-Founder
- FXCM's Managing Director and Global Head of Dealing Eduard Yusupov sold just over a million shares last week, after shares he had pledged as margin at a separate broker were foreclosed.
Monday, 02/02/2015 | 13:00 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Greece and EU Likely to Take a Milder Approach towards Each Other, Unless...
- After a brisk exchange of opinions about the Greek bailout program progress, the rapport of both parties has been somewhat toned down in the run up to more talks between the Greek finance minister and creditors.
Monday, 02/02/2015 | 11:19 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Exclusive: Alpari UK to Disintegrate Group as Buyers Refuse $25 Million Offer
- Forex Magnates has learned that most of the global group's employees are expected to be immediately let go, with about 50 to remain on board for the transitional period of the firm's winding up.
Sunday, 01/02/2015 | 15:56 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
Alpari UK Clients to Apply on New Website for Fund Claims from KPMG
- KPMG say that because Alpari UK had a very large number of retail clients, this is considered to be a significantly more efficient and cost effective approach for agreeing claims than using a manual claim process.
Sunday, 01/02/2015 | 08:11 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
FXDD US Applies for Withdrawal of Introducing Broker License with the NFA
- According to a corporate announcement made by FXDD Global, the firm’s US unit has applied to withdraw its IB license due to the firm's concentration of efforts on its globally operating FXDD Global.
Saturday, 31/01/2015 | 03:48 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|} !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}