Forex Weekly Look Back: FXCM adds social and copy trading via ZuluTrade, ASIC bans binary options and restricts CFDs trading LeapRate

April 02, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: FXCM adds social and copy trading via ZuluTrade, ASIC bans binary options and restricts CFDs trading

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released a new policy statement on its website announcing that all UK crypto firms must now submit financial crime reports on a yearly basis, regardless of annual revenue. Within the new financial crimes reporting sphere are cryptoasset business, following plans released eight months ago alluding to the policy change. The…

February 05, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: FXCM Group expands its Stock Basket offering, Exness named Damian Bunce its new Chief Trading Officer

Digital asset exchange Gate.io announced that it is the first major centralized exchange to list SNOW. according to a famous crypto trader, Elliot Wainman, SNOW could grow at least 1000%. On February 2, it reached an all-time high of $146.87. SnowSwap is a decentralized exchange which allows its users to swap wrapped, yield-bearing tokens with minimal…

December 18, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: capital.com releases MetaTrader service in 2021, Plus500 extends sponsorship of Atlético de Madrid

Bitcoin broke records yesterday by soaring through its previous all-time high, up more than 15% in the past 24 hours. At the time of writing yesterday, bitcoin was trading around $22,838 – well above any previous high achieved by the cryptoasset. In its wake other peers such as ethereum are also soaring. ETH has hit a…

June 12, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: ATFX reports 37% growth in Q1, CMC Markets launches new Prime Derivatives platform

Husam Al Kurdi who recently joined SquaredFinancial as its new Chief Executive Officer sat down with LeapRate for an interview. Having spent two decades working in the financial and banking industry, he has acquired an international reputation for developing and managing sophisticated trading companies. He has been involved with the launch and running of a…

June 10, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FXCM introduces UKOilSpot and USOilSpot CFD products

Both products, UKOilSpot and USOilSpot, have the same CFD contract sizing and pip costs as FXCM’s Futures Oil CFDs. The spot products have a daily financing fee for holding positions past 5pm EST, while existing futures products do not. Brendan Callan, CEO of FXCM said: With the collapse of oil prices recently, many traders are…

June 01, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FXCM releases April report, XAU/USD spreads continue to decline

Instrument Active Trader Average Spread Active Trader Effective Spread At Price Orders Positive Slippage Negative Slippage XAU/USD 11.8 14.2 54.0% 32.0% 14.0% SPX500 0.6 0.6 53.5% 29.6% 16.9% NAS100 2.2 1.0 39.1% 37.5% 23.3% EUR/USD 0.4 0.2 59.3% 32.3% 8.4% GBP/USD 1.2 0.8 44.3% 46.7% 9.0% AUD/USD 0.6 0.3 47.9% 44.4% 7.7% The retail broker…

May 22, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Ban of short-selling suspended, FXCM launches Stock Baskets

Technology provider AMTS Solutions considerably expanded its range of product offerings with the launch of MetaTrader 5 gateways to dozens of liquidity providers, including prominent providers like LMAX, CFH, IG, Barclays, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. eWarrant Japan Securities K.K. launched MetaTrader 5 for Nikkei and Dow Jones indices trading. The company implemented its services…

May 01, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: A risk on scenario dominates the markets, IS Prime offers a solution to trading with negative prices

In recent months we’ve seen the US dollar index (DXY), which tracks the US dollar’s performance against a basket of six other currencies, surging to its highest levels since 2017. This last move higher occurred in tandem with the spreading of the coronavirus across the globe. However, the dollar’s upward path was already well underway…

April 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Oil prices turn negative for the first time in history, Plus500's CEO steps down

Australian brokerage firm Synergy FX, acquired by ACY Securities in 2018, was revived as Synergy Markets, lead by its founder Christian Dove. Synergy Markets opened for clients earlier this week and based on Synergy FX’s good standing in the industry, the rebranded version is expected to do well in the market. FX veteran Christian Dove, who ran the…

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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