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FXCM Temporarily Stops Accepting EU Customers

Due to the looming Brexit deadline, FXCM, a reputable spread betting, CFDs, and forex broker, becomes the first broker to announce that they are temporarily shutting the door and not accepting customers from the EU. FXCM have been in the industry for 20 years and made this decision to be [...]

Benefits Of Testing New CFD Strategies

Traders who learn new CFD strategies and are preparing to implement them within their portfolio should take the time to test these techniques in the sandbox environment of a demo account, in order to iron out any creases or problems without risking any capital. With a variety of different strategies, [...]

Company Update: Sale of ETX Capital to Guru Capital

The team at ETX Capital is delighted to announce that the company’s current shareholders have agreed terms of a sale of ETX Capital to a fund associated with Guru Capital, a Switzerland-based private equity firm with a special focus on FX and CFD Brokerage.   Roger Nagioff, Founding Partner [...]

Importance Of A Trading Plan To Succeed In Forex Business

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 Bans Forex and CFD Trading

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 InvestorsBelgium [...]

Spreadex MD J Hufford Discusses Spread Betting and Company

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 [...]

Norwegian Share CFDs Available for Trading

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 [...]

IG signs sponsorship deal with Melbourne FC

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 [...]

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 [...]

Currency trading when in your 50s

Can it be tapped into $5.3 trillion forex market and cash in? More than 95 % of the currency trades are basically based on pure speculation. It is not really something to consider unless one is ready to take on the stock market, but can be productive if studied well. This [...]

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