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After all the dust settled following two weeks of cross-industry rage regarding the new CFTC requirements it’s now time to take a more sane review at the upcoming regulations. Two biggest and most concerning issues proposed by the CFTC are the 1:10 leverage forced on traders and severe limitations placed on IBs.
Regarding leverage the implications are [...]

GAIN Capital, a global provider of online trading services, has launched GAIN GTX, an independent foreign exchange (FX) ECN that provides qualifying financial institutions, hedge funds, CTAs, high frequency traders, broker/dealers and high net worth individuals access to diverse and deep FX liquidity sources.
GAIN’s GTX trading platform is a fully anonymous trading environment that offers [...]

FXOpen, which recently launched the MT4 ECN platform, has now structured a much more formidable strategic partnership with Dukascopy.
This forms an interesting partnership between one of the largest institutional Forex brokers and one of the largest retail Forex brokers. Dukascopy is by far the largest European broker. While Dukascopy is a very known ECN broker [...]

So what do you when someone is constantly bullying and harassing you at your neighbourhood? Do you call the police, try to take a stand yourself or just run? Well, sometimes when nothing else helps and the situation is escalating, and this has been going on for ages it’s better just to find a new [...]

FXOpen, one of world’s largest brokers and Metatrader innovators, has teamed up with Zulutrade, the world’s leading auto trading social community.
Stuart, IA (PRWEB) January 7, 2010 — FXOpen’s clients will now be able to review hundreds of Forex trading strategies available at Zulutrade and apply the strategies that they are interested in on FXOpen’s Metatrader [...]

Looks like Global Investor Services, Inc. have hit a jackpot – it appears the company managed to score a huge distribution agreement with Questrade – a large stocks, options and forex broker.
I have seen many companies trying to score such an agreement with retail Forex broker, I believe all of them failed so far. I [...]

FXOpen, the first company to offer MT4 ECN trading solution is now offering this solution to potential White Label partners or even as a stand-alone solution. FXOpen’s innovation was later followed by MB Trading which also introduced its own MT4 ECN however FXOpen has managed to introduce both PAMM accounts and decimal lot trading which [...]

Alpari (US), LLC, a regulated Foreign Exchange company and global provider of online Forex trading announced today that it has launched the institutional trading platform, Alpari Direct Pro, powered by Currenex Technology®, a recognized and award-winning leader in the provision of innovative trading solutions to the active-trading segment of the Forex market.
New York (Vocus/PRWEB ) [...]

In what seems to be an endless effort of the NFA to kick the Forex industry out of the US, it imposes more and more stringent, and some would say, requirements on the local brokers. Another latest requirement to be announced ties the NFA membership fees to broker’s revenues from forex transaction.
NFA Bylaw 1301(e) requires Forex [...]

FXOpen is one of the companies that are most responsible for Metaquotes’ (the company behind Metatrader) success simply because it introduces features that Metatrader should have but it doesn’t. Alpari is another of these companies and occasionally serves as Metaquotes’ beta-site.
FXOpen recently introduced the first ever MT4 ECN platform and also added PAMM accounts making [...]