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Oanda`s open positions ratio as 1st of February, 2012

02/01/2012 in Oanda, Trading, Trading Forex

As stated on Oanda-s web site, long to short positions Ratio is 40/60. This info on current open orders and open positions in Forex market lets an interpretation of current trading activity of thousands of traders, including the client price expectations that are contributing to natural resistance and support levels.

Ratio for other pair you could see on image bellow.

FOREX.com: “We’re launching our new television campaign”

03/02/2011 in Forex Brokers, Forex com - Gain Capital Group

Launching new television campaign

FOREX.com has launched a new currency trading TV campaign in the US and abroad.

The campaign consists of a series of 30-second spots, each featuring a different “World Trader” engaged in forex trading and expressing it in unexpected settings revealed at the end of each commercial.

Each spot concludes with the campaign’s tagline, “It’s your world. Trade it.™”

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FX Solution One Year of Market Coverage on Facebook

03/02/2011 in Featured, FX Solutions LLC

FX Solution Celebrates One Year of Market Coverage on FacebookFX Solution celebrates one year of market coverage on Facebook. It all started with James Chen’s Chart of the Day and Joseph Trevisani’s economic and currency analysis reports. Joe’s first post on Facebook said it best, ‘May you live in interesting times’. The past couple of years have been historical in the financial markets and now we will continue providing you with worldwide coverage on everything that drives the forex market. This year could see continued reporting about protesters worldwide, to the effects of global inflation, increasing borrowing costs, and disparity among countries regarding economic growth.

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Forex.com tightens spreads for EUR/USD and USD/JPY pairs

06/26/2008 in Forex Brokers, Forex com - Gain Capital Group

The forex.com announses that the spreads on EUR/USD and USD/JPY pairs will be tightened for a limited time. FOREXPro rates are their tightest available spreads and usually require a $10,000 minimum balance, but for a limited time, the company wants to offer the opportunity to trade on FOREXPro rates with as little as $2,500.

FOREXPro rates:

Pair As low as Pair As low as
EUR/USD 1.5 NZD/USD 2
USD/JPY 1.5 CHF/JPY 2.5
USD/CHF 2 CAD/JPY 3.5
EUR/GBP 1 AUD/JPY 3.5
EUR/JPY 2 NZD/JPY 3.5
EUR/CHF 1 GBP/JPY 3.5
GBP/USD 2 GBP/CHF 4
USD/CAD 2 EUR/AUD 3.5
AUD/USD 2 EUR/CAD 3.5
AUD/NZD 4 AUD/CAD 2
GBP/CAD 3.5 GBP/AUD 4
EUR/NZD 7.1 GBP/NZD 16.7
AUD/CHF 5.2   NZD/CHF 5.5
NZD/CAD 7.0   CAD/CHF 5.4
USD/HKD 3.5 USD/SGD 5.0
SGD/JPY 4.0    

Other news:

  1. 24-hour trading in Hong Kong Dollar and Singapore Dollar – now you can trade US Dollar/Hong Kong Dollar (USD/HKD), US Dollar/Singapore Dollar (USD/SGD) and Singapore Dollar/Japanese Yen (SGD/JPY). These new pairs provide fresh opportunities to tap into Asian economies
  2. Curious about emerging Asian economies? USD/SGD (Singapore Dollar) and USD/HKD (Hong Kong Dollar) open up new ways to speculate on regional growth in Asia. SGD/JPY lets you trade on those opinions directly, without going through the USD first.
  3. Have opinions about the global trade imbalance? USD/SGD lets you target another Asian economy beyond Japan (USD/JPY), and to speculate on the Asian regional growth theme and the resolution of global trade imbalances.
  4. Watching the USD closely? The Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) is currently pegged to the USD, although pressure may be growing to peg to China’s RMB. If you have opinions about this peg’s staying power, USD/HKD offers a way to express those in the market.

Other news and tools you`ll find on www.forex.com site.

FOREX.com named Best Retail Platform

06/02/2008 in Forex Brokers, Forex com - Gain Capital Group

The team of Forex.Com announced that FOREX.com/GAIN Capital voted by the readers of Profit & Loss Magazine as the “Best Retail Platform” in currency trading.

This award was announced on May 22, 2008 at P&L’s Digital Markets Awards dinner, held in New York City.

“I want to continue building our leadership position, which will further help the overall forex industry grow. If we can achieve this in the most efficient manner possible, then we are serving our clients well – and providing a good client experience backed by responsive service continues to be the key to further success”.

Said GAIN CEO Glenn Stevens in a interview for Profit & Loss regarding the importance of delivering a good client experience. GAIN CEO Glenn Stevens was the featured profile in Profit & Loss.

The sourse http://www.gaincapital.com/files/plmar2008.pdf

Their contact info: 1.877.FOREXGO (367.3946), 1.908.731.0750 (int’l) or via email at support@forex.com.

About Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.

05/20/2008 in Forex Brokers, Interactive Brokers

This boroker ratings from elitetrader.com members:

  • Quote & Execution Speed 4/5
  • Range of Services 4/5
  • Training & Tech Support 3/5
  • Commissions & Fees 4/5
  • Overall Reliability 4/5

About Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.

Founded by its Chairman and CEO Thomas Peterffy about 31 years ago.
One of the premier securities firms.
More info here

Latest news from them:
2008
The IB Risk NavigatorSM is launched, a real-time market risk management platform for customers, providing unified risk data across multiple asset classes around the globe.

Other traders opinions:

    • IB is the best if you are looking for fast executions and very low comissions, 0.01 for first 500 sh and 0.005 for over 500, who can beat that.
    • Use a good data provider for other services, ie Level 2, T&S , Graphs ,etc .
    • Plenty around, RealTick, Esignal, NexTrend.
    • The quotes and execution speed are the best . The range of services are average because IB does not have the best charts of brokers, but are adequate for swing trading. There is no training per se, but the online manual does answer most all of your questions. The customer service does answer almost all tech questions.The commisions and reliability are better than other brokers I have tried which are MLonline, TDWaterhouse, Cyberttrader, Suretrade, WallstreetElectronica and some others. The commissions and fees charged are beyond question the best deal on the web. Overall I think each person should open up an account at IB and prove it to yourself that IB is the best deal overall around.
    • I’ve been in the process of opening a new account for weeks now. My account has been funded, but not useable. It has taken me days just to find out why, and now I can’t get a response to my emails or calls. When they do respond, the email is composed of sentence fragments that I can’t decipher. All this because they want me to verify my income or something. I am just cashing out my money as soon as I can, and will go with a broker that can respond to emails.

More to come soon…

City Index Group Limited Acquisition of FX Solutions LLC

04/21/2008 in Forex Brokers, FX Solutions LLC

City Index Group Limited (“City Index”) Acquisition of FX Solutions LLC (“FX Solutions”)

London, UK, February 6th, 2008.

City Index Group, a leading provider of retail derivative trading services (Contracts for Difference, CFD’s, foreign exchange – FOREX, announced the acquisition of FX Solutions LLC (www.fxsolutions.com) in an all equity transaction.

FX Solutions. Created in 2001 by Thomas Plaut and Robert Cortright. Based in Saddle River, New Jersey. FX Solutions provides a premier retail foreign exchange (“FX”) electronic trading platform for all major currency pairs.

FX Solutions has been recognized for 3 consecutive years by Inc. magazine as a part of the annual Inc. 500 “America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies” list. Only 11 of 500 companies achieved that status, and in 2007, FX Solutions was the only retail FX broker to make the list.

The combined Group will employ over 400 staff across 6 offices in the UK, United States, China, Singapore and Australia and has partnership relationships throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Middle East, transacting approximately 1.6 million trades per month. The Group is regulated in Europe, the United States, Singapore and Australia.

Mr Clive Cooke, CEO City Index, commented on the transaction:

“The FX Solutions team have built a highly successful business with clients in over 50 countries and we are delighted to be able to bring our two companies together. This transaction will enhance and strengthen our current product offerings to our retail clients and institutional business partners and accelerate our expansion into new geographical markets.”

Thomas Plaut Co-founder and Co-CEO of FX Solutions, commented:

“We are very pleased to be joining the City Index Group, an ideal partner to take our business to the next stage. City Index’s diverse and worldwide operations will open new opportunities for our business and we know the merger with City Index is going to be a positive for all involved – especially our customers.”

“We are delighted to be participating in this combination, which creates a new, multi-product leader with best in class technology, serving a rapidly growing, global market,”

said David Golob, Partner with Francisco Partners.