Tag Archives: retail brokers
Last month Alpari US announced that it will start offering fx options trading over FX Bridge’s platform and now it’s Gallant’s turn. Gallant recently sold its FX retail business to Gain (through CMS Forex) and just like many other brokers …
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In a move that makes perfect sense for all parties Swissquote Bank, a Swiss public bank, just announced that it acquired ACM. ACM was recently denied its banking license by FINMA and I speculated that the firm will either sell …
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I’ve lately had a chance to interview Paul Jeszenszky, OANDA’s Head of Marketing. The interview is even more relevant now that OANDA has relaunched its online marketing efforts. If you are like me you were always intrigued by this very …
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The quickly growing (organically and through acquisitions) Cyprus registered broker GFC Markets is now rebranding to markets.com. GFC just acquired this great domain name and immediately started transferring its business to it. This is one of only a few brokers who own a …
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For readers of this blog Gain Capital’s acquisition of CMS Forex’s retail forex business is old news, but it’s always interesting to read the official statement: GAIN Capital to Acquire the Retail Forex Business of Capital Market Services, LLC NEW YORK …
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Today, Monday 18th October 2010, is the day that all US forex brokers must disclose their account profitability and number of non discretionary accounts. I’ve already published Interbank FX’s and FXCM’s numbers here and today I’ve gone ahead and compiled …
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fxbees.com the forex social trading site we reviewed here couple of months ago is now halting its trading due to CMS’s acquisition by Gain. I guess they’ll have hard time now migrating to another platform or broker. Note to new …
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by Oz Golan, Tradency. Myfxbook, a rapidly growing forex analytical community, recently presented its new “community outlook” , otherwise known as market sentiment, feature to the forex market. This feature reflects traders’ actual trading results, statistics and trends, helping traders …
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Just got these numbers below from FXCM’s new risk disclosure (not released officially yet). If the numbers are correct this is quite a big surprise for two reasons: 1. FXCM always claims to be NDD and is proud of its …
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