Author Archives: Michael Greenberg
In line with the latest trend of infographics by brokers and software providers we now have another one by OANDA. This one describes the Sovereign income, debt, and credit – Europe Edition. Other infographics we published here: The Greek Tragedy: …
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Two new websites focused on Bonds, Annuities, & Fixed Income investing have been recently launched. The entrepreneur behind this ambitious project is an experienced financial executive – Marc Prosser. Marc has been FXCM’s Chief Marketing Officer since its inception during which FXCM propelled into …
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eToro right now is launching its new GuruFinder which is basically an enhanced searching and performance measuring capability for its OpenBook trade-copying forex social network. eToro’s OpenBook allows easy and quick trade-following where traders can monitor and eventually follow successful …
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Gold futures rise 355.7% from December 2011 to reach 30,567 contracts Monthly volumes of 475,942 contracts represent value of $ 19.32 billion India Rupee record the highest monthly volume every of 431,902 contracts in January DGCX is growing quite rapidly. …
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The Survey of North American Foreign Exchange Volume is designed to measure the level of turnover in the foreign exchange market. The survey defines foreign exchange transactions as spot, forwards, swaps, and options that involve the exchange of two currencies. …
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It’s interesting to see FXstreet exercising horizontal expansion by capturing small-medium forex websites looking for someone to manage their advertising inventories. FXstreet started this by partnering with myfxbook and then forexcrunch and fxtimes - these three sites generate almost 5 million monthly pageviews. …
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This case just gets more and more complicated. Crown Forex is an extremely complicated case of a Forex brokerage that turned out to be a ponzi scam. We’ve already reported today about another uncovered forex ponzi brokerage (One World Capital) …
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One World Capital was apparently a forex ponzi – owners John Walsh and Charles Martin get 12-17 years in prison
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This one was pretty much below the radar although One World Capital was probably the biggest US forex brokerage that turned out to be a scam. NFA’s capital requirements which gradually rose from almost nothing to $20+ million since 2008 …
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We already mentioned here how popular these infographics are becoming. It’s quite an easily designed but visually attractive presentation of a certain topic and many brokers use them when trying to explain what forex market is all about to their …
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