May 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

British Columbia regulator warns against binary options firm Magnum Options

The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) on Friday updated its Investment Caution List, which features the names of unregistered foreign brokerage firms that have solicited investors to open trading accounts, offered them unqualified investments and the names of businesses connected, or purporting to be connected, to British Columbia that have solicited investors in other jurisdictions…

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May 15, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Will The Binary Options Rush End? Should We Stick To Forex Trading?

Binary Options seem to have taken the investment market by storm. More and more investors are now moving into binary options trading and taking advantage of a fixed high-yield return over traditional Forex profits. In Forex trading, profits are typically dependent on risk appetite and the ability of a trader to properly analyse trends as…

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May 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

What retail investors should know about crowdfunding

Starting next Monday, May 16, US investors will be able to buy securities in early-stage companies through crowdfunding. Under new rules effective May 16, 2016 as part of the JOBS Act, the general public can invest in capital raising by start-up companies through crowdfunding, which generally refers to the use of the Internet by small businesses…

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May 13, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CEX.IO Bitcoin Exchange integrates with C.A.T. Bot for automated trading

UK and USA registered Bitcoin Exchange CEX.IO has announced today its been added to C.A.T., an automated trading interface using Bitcoin exchanges API. C.A.T. is the most popular and highly reputable trading bot on BitcoinTalk with numerous positive feedbacks from users. The first version of C.A.T. was introduced back in 2013 and has experienced over 50…

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May 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Is Social Media still the wrong channel to do advertising?

Bart Burggraaf, Managing Partner at MediaGroup Worldwide takes an interesting look at the pros and cons of social media marketing channels for Forex brokers. It wasn’t too long ago I made the point that Social Media is the wrong channel to do advertising. The idea being that people are in content mode on social media,…

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May 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXStreet's new website goes live (again)

After a stutter start last month which saw their newly redesigned website go from beta to live and then taken back down again following a series of glitches and crashes, popular FX trader website FXStreet has taken the plunge again and relaunched their new website at fxstreet.com. FXStreet management is of course confident that the kinks…

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May 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXStreet's new website goes live (again)

After a stutter start last month which saw their newly redesigned website go from beta to live and then taken back down again following a series of glitches and crashes, popular FX trader website FXStreet has taken the plunge again and relaunched their new website at fxstreet.com. FXStreet management is of course confident that the kinks…

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