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23 02, 2015

CME shutting down most future trading pits

The world's biggest futures market operator will be shutting down nearly all of its open-outcry futures pits by the 2nd of July, indicating the closing bell on a once-rowdy tradition that has been in the lows since the rise of online trading. The decision by CME Group Inc., announced last [...]

8 10, 2014

Leverage is intensifying volatility in oil market

With crude oil prices being traded at two-year lows despite the latest rush in Middle East upheaval, investors might be absolved for wondering what happened to peak oil. The reality is that despite the major sums that have been invested in another optional energy with the supply of oil from [...]

9 07, 2014

Teaching investors to build a cost-efficient portfolio

Index along with exchange-traded funds are increasingly becoming popular despite its high-costing platform fees. With the new Isa (Nisa) rules in place, investors are looking at new ways to get the most of their money out of the newly implemented £15,000 annual allowance. While the performance of investments is primarily [...]

25 04, 2014

CMC Markets picks smart trade’s liquidity FX in its routing and aggregation services

The London and Paris and AIX Provence in France (Business Wire) smartTrade Technologies which is the global leader in cross-asset liquidity management solutions and software recently announced that the CMC markets (one of the leaders in providing CFD trading, FX and spread betting) has chosen LiquidityFX™ as the formers trading [...]

14 03, 2014

FXCM spearheads new CFDs and Micro Spread Bets

FXM Incorporated (NYSE:FXCM) which is a principal provider of foreign exchange related services and trading bolstered its spread betting and contracts for difference (CFDs) offers by limiting the tradable size to as much as 1/10th of its present value. FXCM patrons will now be able to trade in much smaller [...]

5 03, 2014

Safeguarding your portfolio from diminishing markets

To better provide a safeguard mechanism, investors can make us of some fail-safe strategies for traders' portfolio. Choosing a portfolio based on mere intuition will result in positive returns which can put protective measures raises the presumption of value of shares which can sometimes be unusual. Perhaps the best way [...]

20 01, 2014

Financial spread betting still viable

Financial Spread Betting caused quite a stir during its 20th year stint as an optional investment tool for non-conventional profit seeking investors. The product has been widely recognised as a well regulated, trusted and prominent asset class among many U.K. based investors, some of which are the most financial savvy [...]

17 01, 2014

Forex: Short-term trading techniques

Successful short term Forex trading is the ultimate goal of new traders who try their luck in the Forex market every year. It is very essential that they have a solid background and understanding the kind of trend on a small time frame as the only plausible retracement of the [...]

31 07, 2013

CFD provider Plus500 to hover on AIM following US $75 million raise

Retail CFD broker Plus500 will join the growing list of summer AIM debutants in the coming weeks. The company revealed that it had raised $75 million in what was said to be a substantially oversubscribed share placing which was valued at $200 million. This marks one of the most significant [...]

18 06, 2013

Five reasons why spread betting is good for your business

Whether you are a rookie investor who is looking to get into the stock market for the very first time or a an experienced risk taking trader, there are more than several reasons why you might want to examine and consider the benefits of learning the art of spread [...]

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