LeapRate Exclusive... Toxic flow or malicious activity is an ongoing issue for brokers of all sizes and across all regions. It can be difficult to recognise and causes significant losses to unwary brokers. LeapRate interviewed Jeff Wilkins, Managing Director at IS Risk Analytics, part of the ISAM Capital Markets Group, to find out what steps can…
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CLS announced today that Metrobank just joined CLSSettlement as a third-party participant. Metrobank is the first Philippine bank to access CLS’s settlement service and UBS, a CLSSettlement member, will provide access to Metrobank. The increase in third-party participation in CLSSettlement throughout the region has been driven by a number of factors: since 2018, the overall…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 14, 2020. On Thursday on its quarterly earnings call, Chinese technology giant Alibaba set out a multitude of ways in which its business is being impacted by the coronavirus epidemic. CEO Daniel Zhang warned that the…
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Retail forex broker FXCM (NYSE:FXCM) released its execution data report for January 2020. January 2020 all instruments highlights include: 72.2% of orders executed at price, down 1% MoM 23.0% of orders executed with positive slippage, up 11% from the previous month 4.8% of orders executed with negative slippage, down 24% MoM Average execution speed 16 milliseconds Highlighted…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for February 14, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: EUROPEAN SHARES The trading mood lacked certainty at the end of the week with a mixed opening for European markets, with no clear direction nor significant volatility as investors still struggle to…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 13, 2020. Barclays reported a better than expected profit before tax of £6.2bn for 2019, up 9% year on year as its investment bank revealed bumper returns from fixed income trading. Investors weren’t doing much celebrating…
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The following article was prepared by Alejandro Zambrano, Chief Market Strategist at ATFX. Coronavirus Spread Slows In late January, the financial markets reacted forcefully to the news of the Coronavirus. Most of the damage to markets occurred in the China stock indices, such as the Shanghai Composite, which slid by 13.32% from January 21 to February…
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AvaTrade Japan announced earlier that it has launched MetaTrader 5 (MT5) trading platform in its local office. Japanese traders will now have access to all three versions of the platform - desktop, mobile and web. MT5 features a low spread (0.4 pips), as well as hundreds of additional trading instruments including stocks, Indices and ETFs. The platform…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for February 13, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The euro sunk to its lowest in 2½ years against the dollar during the early part of Thursday’s session, following the publication of December eurozone industrial production output data, which came…
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Global CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has just released its preliminary unaudited results for the year ended 31 December 2019. The broker divides 2019 into two distinct halves, with strong improvement in H2 2019. All key metrics showed better performance in H2 2019 compared to H1 2019, impacted by extremely low volatility in Q1 2019.…
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