November 25, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

What is trading via FIX API, and what makes it so popular?

The following guest post is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets. [divide] FIX (Financial Information Exchange) API (application programming interface) is a highly scalable electronic communication protocol to facilitate the real-time exchange of information related to financial markets. It has become the de facto standard method of pre-trade, trade and…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Japanese broker Arena-FX relaxes margin requirements for NZD pairs

After revising its margin requirements for a set of currency pairs with the New Zealand dollar (NZD) earlier this month, Japanese Forex broker Arena-FX is again changing the trading conditions for these pairs – this time, in a favourable direction, as margin requirements are relaxed. As of November 30, 2015 (Monday), Arena-FX will be cutting the…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Non-exec director Charles Fairbairn buys 69,747 shares in Plus500

Forex and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has just reported one more transaction in its shares. On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Mr. Charles Fairbairn, a non-executive director of Plus500, purchased 69,747 ordinary shares of NIS 0.01 each in the broker at a price of 349.3 pence per share. In addition, his wife - Susan Fairbairn,…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Paysafe to move to London Stock Exchange's Main Market on Dec 23rd

Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS), formerly known as Optimal Payments, today confirmed its plans to list its ordinary shares on the premium segment of the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to have them admitted to trading on London Stock Exchange's Main Market. The company expects that its shares will be admitted to the…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

OANDA stops supporting Best Forex Trade of the Day in fxLabs

OANDA has announced that it is no longer supporting the Best Forex Trades of the Day in fxLabs as of November 24, 2015. The broker explained that it regularly evaluates capabilities of its lab tools to ensure that it is providing the utmost value to customers. After careful consideration, and due to low trader interest,…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Technician adds Multi-Timeframe Moving Averages to tech analysis toolkit

Trading and charting application Technician, launched in July this year, keeps enhancing its capabilities, with the latest improvement concerning technical analysis. Now users of the app can plot moving averages based on bar intervals higher than their chart interval. They can then layer on multiple moving averages on the same chart. The feature has been…

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November 24, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

CFTC approves proposal for tighter risk controls for automated trading

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today unanimously approved proposed rules that concern automated trading on U.S. designated contract markets (DCMs). The proposed rules, known as Regulation Automated Trading (Regulation AT), represent a series of risk controls, transparency measures, and additional safeguards, aimed to bolster the U.S. regulatory regime for automated trading. The new…

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November 24, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Non-exec director Daniel King buys 13,259 shares in Plus500

Forex and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has just reported of a transaction in its shares. According to the regulatory filing, on November 24, 2015, Mr. Daniel King, a non-executive director of the broker, purchased 13,259 ordinary shares of NIS 0.01 each in the company at a price of 339.38 pence per share. Following the…

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November 24, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

CMC Markets sees first-half profits grow, reiterates IPO plans

British multi asset CFD and spread betting company CMC Markets has earlier today posted its financial report for the six months to September 30, 2015, with the numbers continuing a positive trend already exhibited in the report for the full year to March 31, 2015. The latest report also features comments by CMC Markets' CEO Peter Cruddas…

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