Retail Forex broker Alpari today announced the launch of real ECN accounts for the MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platform in partnership with AMTS Solutions. There are two new types of accounts: ecn.mt5 and pamm.ecn.mt5. The company promises that the trading with the new accounts will be without any requotes. Alpari also notes that MetaTrader 5 offers…
Read moreOnline trading services provider Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) is introducing novelties to its Portfolio Builder, a tool that lets traders create research data-driven portfolio strategies, assess their simulated historical performance up to three years back, and then invest funds and submit orders to create the portfolio. To help traders get started, the broker has…
Read moreThe Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) today announced the suspension of the Cyprus Investment Firm license of Trademarker (Cyprus) Ltd, which operates via the brands SkyFX and Capital Option. The watchdog said the suspension reflected suspicions of an alleged violation of section 28(1) of Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law. In particular,…
Read moreMetaQuotes Software, the trading technologies developer, continues to enhance the technical analysis capabilities of its platforms. The company today unveiled the latest improvements to its MetaTrader 4 Web platform, which include Bill Williams' indicators. The latest version of MT4 Web features a comprehensive set of Bill Williams' indicators. Six more indicators for technical analysis are…
Read moreProvider of trading, investment and information solutions to the financial industry Fidessa Group plc (LON:FDSA) has earlier today reported its preliminary financial metrics for the full year to December 31, 2015, with earnings and revenues staging a rise on an annual basis in the face of volatile conditions in financial markets. Fidessa reported 2015 profits…
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has updated the Investment Caution List, which features the names of entities that are not registered to offer their services in the Canadian province but nevertheless do so. The latest additions to the list are four binary options brokers: ZenithOptions, InvestingCI, Option Orbit and LBinary. ZenithOptions The company operates…
Read moreJapanese Forex and binary options broker Hirose Tusyo Inc., also known as Hirose FX, has received an approval for an initial listing of its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange JASDAQ (Standard). The initial listing is scheduled for March 18, 2016, with the company to be listed under the ticker 7185. This is an important…
Read moreThe 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 January 2016. The Forex and binary options volumes both staged significant increases in trading volumes on a monthly basis, with Forex volumes marking a rise of 49.9%…
Read moreWe in the FX trading world sometimes forget that moving FX rates affect people and businesses in the real world. And for many this weekend, it doesn't get more real than paying more for Valentine's Day flowers. Valentine’s Day romantics face paying more for a bunch of roses thanks to adverse foreign exchange rates which…
Read moreThere is some development in the story about the UK prosecution of Alex Hope, the mastermind of a fraudulent FX investment scheme, and his accomplice Raj Von Badlo (also known as Raj Shastri)... Southwark Crown Court today ordered nearly £2.65 million ($3.86 million) to be returned to investors who had entrusted their money in a…
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