Jul 29 2009

Does your US broker comply with the upcoming FIFO (Rule 2-43) Regulation?

So if you’d like to know what your broker did, or didn’t, in order to comply with the upcoming regulation this is the post you need to read.
The list below shows (based on brokers’ own statements) which brokers were affected and in what manner (clicking the broker will take you to the relevant content):
Oanda – [...]

Jul 28 2009

Tradeview announces FIFO compliance

Tradeview just sent the following message to its clients announcing compliance with the NFA’s FIFO requirements:
Dear Tradeview Client:
As many of you are aware, this Friday July 31st, NFA Rule 2-43 becomes effective for all US based FDM’s and clients.  Starting with Trade date Monday August 3rd, all positions will be closed on a First In, [...]

Jun 10 2009

MetaTrader 5 Is More Than Just An MT4 Upgrade

This is the first in a 5-part series on MetaQuotes upcoming release of the MetaTrader 5 trading platform. The new MT5 platform is not an upgrade of MT4 but rather an entirely new client terminal, written from scratch.

May 21 2009

Tradeview Forex Offers Hedging Alternative

Ever since CFTC enacted Compliance Rule 2-43(b) which prohibits hedging, brokers have been seeking ways to adhere to the regulation but still please their “hedging” customers.

FXDD told their customers that they were not making any changes to their platform because they were still discussing the new changes with NFA.
FX Solutions offered hedging using a multiple [...]



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