The international broker, RoboForex has announced today that it has started business operations in the Republic of Belarus. The company’s new office is already live in Minsk. The broker has also launched its website at www.roboforex.by. Clients will now be able to register and get access to all RoboForex products and services. At the moment,…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for October 17, 2019. See details below: FOREX/BREXIT A roller-coaster day for the pound with it almost reaching $1.30 following the announcement of a Brexit deal between the EU and the UK only to then lose all of the day’s gains in…
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Financial technology provider, Spotware has just announced that it has teamed up with the FCA regulated Prime of Prime and Liquidity Provider IS Prime. This partnership will allow any broker or bank offering Spotware's cTrader to connect directly to IS Prime’s multi-asset, aggregated liquidity pool from an extensive list of Tier-1 financial institutions. IS Prime’s clients…
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The following article was exclusively prepared for LeapRate by the Match-Trade Technologies team. The Forex market has been dominated by MetaQuotes for over 10 years. They have created the most popular trading platform in the world - MetaTrader4 and its modernized version MetaTrader5. Although the Russian company is the undisputed leader among software providers for FX brokers,…
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Analysts are still scratching their heads regarding the Fed’s decision last week to inject roughly $60 billion per month into the U.S. economy. The central bank announced that it would be buying back Treasury bills, perhaps until Q2 of 2020, in hopes of preventing turmoil in repo money markets. The confusing part was when Jerome…
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Bitcoin enthusiasts were hopeful last week that a familiar technical pattern would come to the rescue of their beloved digital asset, but it was not to be, at least not yet. The pattern that got everyone excited was what is called a “Double-Bottom Reversal”. If you calculate the distance from the bottom to its “neckline”,…
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QuantHouse has today announced that it has launched Historical Data on-Demand designed to speed up the research, development and back-testing phase of any trading strategy. Market participants must identify data sources, align formats and code to those data sources, allocate storage capacity to download the necessary files and ultimately incorporate into their trading models to…
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The Supervisory Board of Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has announced earlier this week that it has approved a new Group Strategy that covers the five-year period through 2024. The corporate strategy includes 5 key priorities, two of which relate to areas of responsibility and three that focus on areas of growth. Highlights include: Core Markets penetration…
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With all the hoopla surrounding the stumbling Bakkt futures exchange, we tend to forget that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has already established itself as a “go to” place for Bitcoin futures contracts. The CME is also a wily competitor, having knocked out the Chicago Board of Exchange (CBoE) from the arena last March. The…
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FlexTrade Systems and Woodline Partners, a San Francisco-based investment firm, have announced the integration of MSCI’s Barra real time portfolio risk and factor analysis solutions into the FlexONE OEMS. MSCI Inc.’s (NYSE:MSCI) factor models help investment managers understand portfolio and market risk. They are also enabling them to build portfolios based on objectives and risk…
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