The following article was written by Richard Perona, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets. As January 3, 2018 approaches, FX industry participants are busy reading through the new financial laws of “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive” (MiFID 2) in an attempt to understand how these will affect them going forward. Originally, MiFID was created…
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The following article was written by Yuhan Mo, Account Manager at Advanced Markets and Fortex Inc. From social media strategy to content creation, what are the steps to take to reach the 1.4 billion-people Chinese market? Penguin Intelligence, a research agency subsidy of Tencent, recently reported that as of Q4 2016, there were 889 million…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. and Ron Finberg, Head of Business Development at Cappitech. MiFID II has been the focal point of many discussions in the European financial world recently. We have previously focused our attention on several of the main aspects…
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The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Member of the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS. Hello, A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about "vola" still being your friend, and if you agree to this statement being an active trader, join me in having a closer look at how to manage it.…
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The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. MAM is an acronym for Multi Account Manager, a plugin originally designed for the Meta Trader 4 Platform to allow the proportional (or any set) profit and loss distribution from Fund Manager (or Master) to Investors (or Sub Accounts). The…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Best execution policy under MiFID adopts a multi-faceted approach that addresses, amongst other things, quality of execution, trading conditions extended to clients and the counterparty selection process. It also provides directions and guidelines on how best execution can…
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The following article was written by Shobin Matthew Simon, Institutional Sales Manager at Advanced Markets. With the deadline for MiFID II implementation fast approaching, a lot of confusion and uncertainty still exists within the FX Industry. MiFID II regulation is divided into several distinct rule sets with the legislation applying to a broad range of…
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The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. The MetaTrader 4 Bridge is one of the most popular add-ons for MT4 Servers. It was created in early 2000 and, ever since then, there have been many rumors as to who actually developed the first commercial version (of course,…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Welcome to a financial world, full of mysterious acronyms. LEI, CASS, ECP, EMIR, MiFIR, MTF, OTF… This industry just loves acronyms and MiFID II just gave us a whole lot of new ones to work with. One that…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. MiFID II, the “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive”, is legislation that is set to be implemented across the European Union on January 3rd, 2018. As this due date approaches, many market participants are scrambling to implement changes to…
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