The Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) has just published the monthly operating metrics of its members that offer Forex and binary options trading over the counter for April 2016. And although the drop in FX volumes lost pace, the decrease in binary options volumes remained substantial. As usual, we first take a look at…
Read moreHong Kong based Global eSolutions (HK) Limited (GES), a leading financial trading platform vendor announced today a new multi-asset trading and algo-ready platform – TX-AUTON. By offering lightning fast access to real-time data and up-to-the minute view of the markets, TX-AUTON helps investors and traders to efficiently identify trends and determine buy/sell decision intelligently. TX-AUTON provides…
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announces another generous award to a whistleblower, as it will award between $5 million and $6 million to a former company insider whose tip helped the agency uncover securities violations. These would have been nearly impossible to detect had not it been for the whistleblower’s information. Today’s award is…
Read moreIt has been quite a journey for FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM)... And users of the Trading Station mobile application have been aware of the reasons for the broker not updating its mobile apps since January 2015. It was in late January last year, that the company released an update to Trading Station Mobile and after that…
Read moreMontréal Exchange (MX), a derivatives bourse located in Montreal, that trades futures contracts and options on equities, indices, currencies, ETFs, energy and interest rates today announced the appointment of Luc Fortin as Managing Director, Derivatives Trading, effective June 27, 2016. Mr. Fortin will be responsible for developing and deploying strategies to grow the derivatives business. He…
Read moreOnline trading services provider Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) keeps enhancing the functionalities of its proprietary TWS platform. The broker has added a new series of more than 30 new statement and balance sheet-focused Fundamentals columns to the TWS layout. Traders can add these columns to a watchlist, quote monitor and other TWS tools by…
Read moreCLS Group (CLS), a market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has earlier today published its operating metrics for April 2016. The average daily input volume submitted to CLS, combining the settlement and aggregation services, was 1,073,203 last month, marking a rise of 3.6% from 1,035,678 in March 2016. In…
Read moreMoscow Exchange, or Moskovskaya Birzha MMVB-RTS PAO (MCX:MOEX), the biggest Russian venue for trading shares, FX and derivatives, today announces that a new risk transfer functionality between Derivatives and FX markets is available for testing. The planned date for the production release is June 27, 2016. Risk transfer between Derivatives and FX markets: In SPECTRA…
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Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... Every once in a while we come across a team developing a new trading tool or idea out there which catches our eye as something interesting and different. And while the tool is still new and admittedly unproven over the long term, the founders of PsyQuation have developed a new way to improve trader…
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