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GFT/GAIN Capital Merger Analysis – Exclusive Comments By Glenn Stevens and Gary Tilkin

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Is GAIN Capital getting a steal? Listening to conference call and accompanying presentation, it would appear so. From their Merger Presentation (see slides below), GAIN highlighted the benefits of the merger. The meat was the financial data of both firm’s …
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Hotspot FX Posts 10.8% Monthly Volume Increase for February 2013

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Adding to concensus that there is a considerable increase in volumes industrywide this year is the latest volume report from Hotspot FX, whose volumes are 10.8% up from those of January. Among publicly reported spot FX volumes (Hotspot FX, ICAP/EBS, …
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Securities and Exchange Commission Seeks to Set Structured Guidelines on Systems Reliability

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Last Thursday, the Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed new rules to require certain key market participants to have comprehensive policies and procedures in place surrounding their technological systems. The SEC’s proposal, which has been given the name “Regulation SCI” …
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FX Trading Outperforms Overall ICE Volumes

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The IntercontinentalExchange posted their February trading volume data. For the month, average daily volume (ADV) of options and futures was 3,640,377, a 10.4% decline from February 2012, and a 4.6% increase from January 2013. Outperforming the overall exchange was FX, where …
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Back to Back Record Months at GMO Click Securities

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Records are meant to be broken. Following last month’s all time record volume figures for a FX retail broker from Japanese GMO Click Securities, the firms has topped those figures. Over February, total volume at the broker rose 10.8% to …
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Deliverable Renminbi (USD/CNH) Futures Start Trading on the CME Today

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Announced in September of last year, the deliverable renminbi futures began trading today on the CME’s Globex electronic trading network. Trading comes slightly ahead the CME Group’s initial Q2 launch date. For the launch, the CME Group posted data from …
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Wow! Yen SURGE Leads to Record Setting Month At GMO Click Securities

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Japanese broker GMO Click Securities has released their January volume data and it wasn’t just an all-time record for them, but the highest figure ever reported for a retail forex broker. During January, GMO reported total volume of $777.8 billion, …
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DGCX Begins 2013 With Record Monthly Volume – 1.1 Million Contracts in January

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The Dubai Gold and Commodites Exchange (DGCX) has produced record results for January 2013, with volumes totaling over 1.1 million contracts, valued at $ 43.55 billion. Indian Rupee futures also recorded the highest ever monthly volume of 982,358 contracts, and …
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IntercontinentalExchange Publishes Daily Futures Volume for January

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Like the CME the IntercontinentalExchange posted a solid month in FX trading, even as overall trading was lower year over year.  During the month, average daily volume (ADV) was 32,712 contracts in the FX group, 25% higher YoY, but slightly …
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Trader Interview: $600 to $600,000 in Six Years

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The ability to learn a system and then design a solution to master it is the key to many mathematical formulae. For this particular forex trader, automated trading and algorithms have been his forte. On this basis he attracted much …
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