November 04, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

smartTrade adds margin credit functionality to LiquidityFX platform

Provider of multi-asset end-to-end trading solutions smartTrade Technologies today announces the extension of capabilities of its low latency FX trading platform, LiquidityFX, via the addition of a margin credit functionality. smartTrade's LiquidityFX platform has seen growing adoption by a large variety of clients looking to shift from their incumbent platforms to a flexible non-volume based…

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November 04, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Liquidators of BlackfortFX/Arena Capital start legal process against debtor clients

KordaMentha, the company appointed as a liquidator of now defunct Forex broker BlackfortFX/Arena Capital Limited, has started legal proceedings against some of the debtor clients of the brokerage. The confirmation for this action is contained in an update regarding the liquidation process. The legal process concerns clients who have received profits from the brokerage while…

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November 04, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Vantage FX teams up with MetaQuotes to offer only official MT4 apps

Australian Forex broker Vantage FX has announced partnership with MetaQuotes Software, the developers of the popular trading platforms MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5). Under the partnership, Vantage FX will offer its clients only the official MetaQuotes suite of applications. The lineup includes the mobile solutions for iOS and Android-powered devices, as well as…

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November 04, 2015 BY Mike Fox

China's Xinhua Finance Agency to provide co-branded AIREX Market financial apps to website traffic

Airex, Inc. announced today that Xinhua Finance Agency (XFA) has joined the AIREX Market Partner (AMP) Program. The AMP Program is a global service that gives companies their own turnkey, custom, self-curated, and co-branded AIREX Markets. With these AMP Markets, firms can instantly offer their customers, clients, website traffic, and employees a large and growing…

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November 04, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

MultiCharts adds Jigsaw Trading Order Flow Toolset

Software developers MultiCharts have announced they are now offering the Jigsaw Trading Order Flow Toolset. The tools have been made available for MultiCharts.NET and MultiCharts.NET Special Edition (versions 9.1 and above). The new tools are based on the assumption that whenever one places a trade, they do so because of expectations that other traders will…

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November 04, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Singaporean DBS Bank sued by investor after she lost millions in Forex

Singaporean bank DBS Bank we learned today was sued by a "sophisticated" investor, meaning in this case someone with a lot of assets at hand...or to lose. She claims she was given worthless advice causing her to lose millions. So what exactly was the investment advice given to the woman? Singapore's most widely read newspaper…

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November 04, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Bitcoin price tops $430 up 46% in a week - for no apparent reason

Here we go again. One of retail traders' favorite boom-and-bust instruments is back in full bloom boom mode. And for no good apparent reason. After flatlining most of September and rising steadily but slowly during October, prices of cryptocurrency Bitcoin have taken off during the first three days of November. In trading early Wednesday (GMT…

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November 03, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Interactive Brokers partners with O'Shares over ETF offering on TWS platform

US online trading services provider Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) today announced a partnership with O’Shares Investments, a division of O’Leary Funds Management LP. Under the partnership, Interactive Brokers will offer O'Shares global suite of ETFs commission-free on its Trader Workstation (TWS) platform. O’Shares was founded by its Chairman Kevin O’Leary, who is an investor…

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November 03, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Tradier Brokerage, Equities Lab jointly launch education initiative in the US

Students at US universities will gain real-world investment experiences thanks to a new education initiative launched by Tradier Brokerage and trading analysis platform Equities Lab. Universities that use Equities Lab in the classroom will have the added opportunity to have students experience live trading directly from the platform via Tradier Brokerage. This education initiative comes…

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