Marshall Gittler, Head of Investment Research for FXPRIMUS, takes an interesting look at where crude oil prices are heading. Oil prices were collapsing earlier this year before recovering more than 60% from their February lows. Will oil prices keep rising? Will oil prices remain volatile? What is happening with oil demand in China and India?…
Read moreThe following guest post is courtesy of Sergey Kornev, Account Manager at MT4 technologies provider and Russian FX market expert Takeprofit Technology. Takeprofit’s products include MT4 plugins, the Klondike liquidity bridge, and the Ashira automated dealer anti-cheating defense. Takeprofit’s clients have included Forex brokerages and white-label solution providers such as FXNet, iTradeSolution, FXFair, TenkoFX, and…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Copenhagen-based algo trading tools developer Tradeworks has raised a total of more than $500,000 from two strategic investors based in Singapore, as well as from the Danish Innovation Fund, Innovationsfonden. Participating in a DKK 3 million (USD $450,000) fundraising by Tradeworks, and joining the company's Board as non-executive directors, are Singapore…
Read moreNew Israeli regulations ban deposit bonuses, limit leverage, ban debit card deposits, and require signed conflict of interest policies.
Read moreeFX trading solutions provider TradAir has launched its latest product, a real-time trade analytic engine called TradAir NOW. TradAir NOW drives platform profitability for forex brokers by empowering firms to more competitively price, and profitably hedge FX flows. It leverages Google BigQuery, provides massive performance and scalability. With TradAir NOW, banks and brokers are able to more competitively price…
Read moreYael Warman, Content Manager at Leverate, takes an interesting look at a topic that is frequently on the minds of Forex brokers, traders, and regulators: Is Forex trading gambling, or trading? There are differences, but there are also many similarities. People tend to call Forex and Binary Options trading "gambling" and some folks get offended…
Read moreContinuing a theme we've seen among many participants in the Forex industry, this week saw LeapRate report exclusively on upcoming website / GUI changes at two of the better know names in Retail Forex: popular trader site FXStreet, and broker Forex.com. Our most popular guest post of the week is courtesy of Leverate's Ben Richter on…
Read moreAnyoption analyst Brett Chatz takes an interesting look at explaining the inter-connectivity of global financial markets. For more of Brett's research see the Anyoption blog. [divide] If we have learned anything from bull markets and bear markets, it is this: neither of them lasts indefinitely. This facts precipitating the global financial crisis of 2008 were…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive Interview... It was one year ago today that Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) closed on its $77 million acquisition of City Index, to become a major player in the UK online trading industry. More recently, GAIN's latest moves have taken the company in other directions, such as our recent coverage of the company's plans to…
Read moreOn May 19, Prague will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague. The event will bring together Blockchain developers and those who apply the technology in practice: financiers, bankers and businessmen. The event will consist of a conference, divided into two streams, and an exhibition of IT developments in the field of Blockchain. The participants will…
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