Tag Archives: advanced markets
The CFTC has posted its financial data report for FCMs. Overall, total Retail Forex Funds dropped $15.9 million to $641.6 million. The drop in funds is in line with early reports of retail account profitability data which has showed a …
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NFA Announces June 30 Date for New Capital Requirements of FCMs Acting as a Counterparty to Forex Transactions
11
2013
Announced in November of last year, the NFA has decided on a June 30, 2013 date for FCMs acting as counterparties to forex transactions to maintain a minimum capital requirement of $20,000,000. The rule is aimed at RFEDs that downgraded …
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NFA Updates Enhancement Of FCM Monitoring and Increases Forex Capital Requirements
19
2012
The NFA has just announced that it has approved proposals for increased monitoring of FCM accounts that were proposed in its November 15th meeting. The new amendments will “require an FCM to instruct its depositories holding segregated, secured amount and …
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Q3 2012 US forex traders profitability report: number of US accounts keeps plummeting, CitiFX Pro on top
24
2012
Despite the less than volatile Q3 2012 the number of accounts didn’t grow as expected and neither did the traders’ profitability. Apparently low volatility doesn’t necessarily mean improved traders survival. Not only did one more US broker depart the market today but …
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America loses another forex broker: Advanced Markets withdraws its RFED license
24
2012
Updated with Advanced Market’s official response, below. The number of US retail forex brokers keeps plummeting with Advanced Markets, aka AMIFX, becomes the latest to withdraw its retail (RFED) license. The firm was today put on what NFA calls a …
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The trend we’ve witnessed in the past year or so, and mentioned in the latest quarterly report, is continuing – brokers are spinning technology off and are offering it to other brokers. Other leading brokers/providers are FXDD with its affiliated …
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It seems some brokers prefer agency model (FXCM), DMA model (Advanced Markets) while some prefer market making (GFT, OANDA, MahiFX, etc). Each model has its own advantages however clients aren’t typically aware of the differences and in many occasions will …
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Advanced Markets focuses on direct market access or DMA. Can you explain a bit what DMA is and what is your DMA offering? Direct market access is exactly what it sounds like. We provide traders with direct, low latency access …
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New Bridge on the Block! Advanced Markets and Fortex collaborate to launch state of the art MT4 Bridge
28
2012
Advanced Markets a leading provider of foreign exchange direct market access (DMA) and Fortex, a leading independent developer of real-time, multi-asset trading platforms, announced the release of UltiMT, a technology, liquidity and credit offering that enables banks and brokers to provide …
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High frequency traders using Chronos’s Zardoz platform can now take advantage ulatr low latency trading with the offering of CFN’s Alpha platform. The partnership means Chronos’ sub-five microsecond tick-to-trade algorithmic trading suite, Zardoz, is hosted on CFN’s Alpha Platform™.
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