Jeff Wilkins talks about risk management in the FX industry
March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Risk Management: Close your eyes and hope for the best?

LeapRate Exclusive... Jeff Wilkins, Managing Director at IS Risk Analytics (ISRA), part of the ISAM Capital Markets Group talks to LeapRate about the risk management methodology of the “Revenue Share Shops” that exist in today’s FX industry. LR: Jeff – you feel very strongly about how detrimental these ‘Revenue Share Shops’ are. Can you explain…

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Daily Market analysis
March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: The dollar’s debacle continues

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for March 6, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The dollar’s debacle continues, with losses of almost 3.5% in the last two weeks on the index that tracks the greenback's performance . The threat posed by coronavirus to the growth…

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Adopting Trading for the API Economy
March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Adopting Trading for the API Economy

The following article was written by Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware. One of the most important characteristics of good software design is its extensibility. This design principle has become more and more of a must for any software architecture in an increasingly connected and interdependent world. The introduction of Application…

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March 05, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM Pro starts onboarding clients with FlexTrade’s MaxxTrader

FXCM Group, LLC, the international provider of online forex and CFD trading, has just announced that FXCM Pro is about to start onboarding clients with FlexTrade System’s MaxxTrader solution across the LD4 hosting centre. LeapRate reminds that FXCM Pro started its partnership with FlexTrade last year. MaxxTrader is an end-to-end, dedicated and customisable solution covering…

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forex market crypto news and updates
March 04, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Markets react to emergency rate cut

Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for March 4, 2020.  Markets have bounced this morning as investors react to potential stimulus measures, including the Federal Reserve’s emergency rate cut yesterday. There is now a 90% chance of a cut from the ECB priced in…

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exness
March 04, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exclusive: Another record month for Exness, volume's up 13% MoM

LeapRate exclusive... The Exness Group just broke another volume record last month. The company announced that its trading volume for February is US$473.8 billion, up 13% MoM. LeapRate reminds that January was reported to be the highest month in volumes, since the company's creation back in 2008. Here's what Maria Federova, COO of Exness, commented…

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