Just like the advice given to a beginner in any business, failing to plan is seen as the basis for planning to fail. Following a written plan definitely helps a trader to succeed in forex business just like any other. A written plan may not ensure guarantee in the forex [...]
Belgium's market regulator, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), has announced a decree prohibiting retail online trading of forex and CFDs, starting from August 18, 2016. In compliance with the above, regulated brokers will no longer be accepting clients from Belgium. Belgium Prohibits Forex and CFD Trading for Retail [...]
Sitting at the intersection of sports betting and financial markets, Spreadex goes relatively unnoticed despite profit margins that fixed-odds rivals can only dream of. Brad Allen from EGR spoke to the firm’s MD Jonathan Hufford to find out the Spreadex secret.It is a marketing rule of thumb that a consumer’s [...]
The Capital Spreads trading platform is being closed and will be replaced by LCG's new and enhanced trading platform, LCG Trader. Your Capital Spreads account (including your account balance) will be migrated to LCG Trader between the 23rd and 30th of April 2016. You will not be able to [...]
DF Markets have expanded their traded instruments selection by adding 21 Norwegian share CFDs. These are now available for trading on all versions of the DFTrader platform (desktop, web, mobile). Besides shares of the biggest Norwegian oil and gas companies such as Fred Olsen Energy (FOE/nor), the newly-added CFDs include [...]
UK leading spread betting and CFD broker IG Group have signed a partnership deal with Australian rules football club Melbourne FC giving it more exposure to a lucrative CFD market in Australia. The deal runs till the end of 2016 and will benefit both sides in the short term as [...]
ICAP founder Michael Spencer has sold his spread betting firm City Index for $118 million. The buyer was Bedminster, NJ based GAIN Capital, a U.S. firm that will now be servicing over 230,000 customers with the addition of their newest acquisition. The combined trade volume of GAIN’s transaction will now [...]
Talibi’s books “The Black Swan” and “Fooled by Randomness” argue, reasonably convincingly, that extreme events are under priced in the current market due to a lack of experience and the over reliance on mathematical models in trading. To take advantage of this they advocate a “dumbbell strategy” which basically is [...]
Michael Lewis, the author of "Liar's Poker," offers a first-hand account of Wall Street in the 1980s. Despite its authenticity, the book receives criticism for an outdated market view, lacking practical trading insights, and an overall negative portrayal of a testosterone-soaked, greed-driven financial culture. Some readers express disappointment in [...]
Jim Rogers is one of the world’s most successful investors. He was the ideas man behind George Soros the trader. When he talks, it is a really good idea to listen. Jim Rogers was one of the first people to shout about commodities at the turn of the millennium. As [...]