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I published a review of DeltaStock’s new ECN/STP platform and raised a few issues. DeltaStock responded and asked to clarify a few things. Although I have a few reservations regarding some of its comments, specifically regarding MT4 ECNs and liquidity providers, I will publish it as is. In response to your article we would like [...]

Bulgarian based Deltastock, a fairly large broker in East European standards, has just announced that it launched its own ECN/STP service. Although the press release and the website are full of misrepresentations such as “the first true ECN/STP solution for retail clients” and enigmatic statements such as “It must be kept in mind that Deltastock remains [...]

Hotspot, one of the largest institutional forex ECNs and liquidity providers, just reported record levels of volumes for April 2010. Hotspot’s average daily trading volume for April was around $60 billion and May was even better as Hotspot reported volumes of almost $90 billion a day in some of early May days. If anyone had [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]