Mike Fox
LeapRate Analyst
February 17, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Inovance CEO on automated DIY Forex trade strategizer - Company Spotlight

This week LeapRate spoke with Inovance CEO Tad Slaff, head of the upstart FX trading software vendor. Inovance’s cloud-based platform, TRAIDE, makes analyzing financial data easy and actionable. Individual traders select the data they want to analyze, and the software uses machine-learning algorithms to analyze it for them, then the trader is able to explore the patterns found…

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February 17, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Bank of Canada announces changes to its published FX benchmark

The Bank of Canada (BoC) today announced that, effective March 1st, 2017, it will make a series of changes to the number, frequency and calculation methodology of its published foreign exchange (FX) rates. Although these changes will not come into effect until 2017, the BoC is notifying the public now to allow ample time for users…

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February 16, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Chicago's Rival now offers access to ICE Futures markets

Chicago-based Rival Systems (Rival), a trading software company established in 2015 announced today that it now provides ICE Futures U.S. and ICE Futures Europe products from Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE:ICE) on its Rival Trader platform, giving its users access to the diverse range of futures and options on futures trading on those exchanges. Said Rival…

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February 16, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Tradologic releases MOBIX binary options app, to launch live with brokers by June 2016

TRADOLOGIC, the binary options platform provider has unveiled its new mobile application today called “MOBIX”, equipped with new interface, advanced charts and variety of assets for what they hope is improved end user experience. Although “MOBIX” is designed to work flawlessly on mobile devices, compatible with Android and iOS, it also employs all major functionalities of the web-based platform. “MOBIX” will go…

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February 16, 2016 BY Mike Fox

FxPro cTrader and Economic Calander apps for Android get updates

FCA and CySEC regulated global broker FxPro announced today some mobile updates to a couple apps for android users. The first of which is a significant update to FxPro's cTrader mobile application for android. Secondly, the firm announced an update for the FxPro Tools - Economic Calendar app. You can find details of the updates below:…

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February 16, 2016 BY Mike Fox

UK FCA warns on Capital Markets trading/MarketCT as clone of regulated firm

United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that fraudsters are using the details of a firm authorized to try to convince people that they work for the genuine, FCA regulated and authorized firm. Find out more about the latest ‘clone firm’ below:   Clone firm details Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as…

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February 11, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Open interest hits all-time high in Renminbi futures on HKEX

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) the Hong Kong securities and derivatives market announced another record-setting day today for HKEX’s RMB Currency Futures contracts. Open interest hit an all-time high of 32,009 contracts (US$3.2 billion notional), and volume on February 11th hit 7,711 contracts (US$771 million notional), the second highest ever. Today was also the fourth consecutive…

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February 11, 2016 BY Mike Fox

NetDania apps now available for Canadian clients of Friedberg Direct

Netdania, the Denmark headquartered creator of streaming price technology and charting for web applications in FX has announced that Canadian clients with Friedberg Direct accounts will soon be able to access their trading accounts through the NetDania apps, no specific date was mentioned. Founded in 1998, NetDania pioneered streaming price technology, and have since delivered solutions to global…

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