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Interactive Brokers has launched a new autonomous trading service that allows investors to use artificial intelligence to monitor markets, identify opportunities and execute trades automatically without approving every transaction. The new IBKR Autonomous Trading service enables eligible customers to connect AI platforms to their brokerage accounts and instruct them to trade across more than 75,000
CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Plus500 continues its expansion in the Americas, but unlike last week, when it bought Hegde
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Yes, we rate Pepperstone as an excellent broker for 24 hour trading. In June 2024 Pepperstone introduced 24-hour CFD trading on US equities on it’s own platforms: MT4, MT5, cTrader, and TradingView. There are no additional trading charges and no minimum ticket charge, with commissions from just $0.02 per share. This means Pepperstone clients can
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Almost three-quarters of trades placed by UK customers on Capital.com are executed without stop-loss orders, raising an interesting question about whether using them actually makes traders more successful. According to Capital.com’s latest Pulse Report, which analysed more than 80 million closed trades globally during the first half of 2026, just 24.71% of UK trades had
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Prediction markets are one of the hottest areas of the financial markets right now. In the US, platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi are attracting record numbers of users. But can you trade prediction markets in the UK? Let’s take a look at the landscape. What are prediction markets? Prediction markets allow traders to bet on
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Capital.com has agreed a deal to take over the European client book of rival online trading platform FxPro, in a move that could significantly expand its presence across the European Economic Area (EEA). The agreement will see clients of FxPro Financial Services Ltd transferred to Capital Com Group Ltd, Capital.com’s European entity, subject to regulatory
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Scalping is a type of forex trading strategy where you deal in and out of positions quickly to make small high-frequency profits. In the twenty years I’ve been a forex broker, trader, analyst and pontificator, I have seen many traders fail to follow the basic trading strategy of run your wins and cut your losses.
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Overnight funding fees are what CFD platforms and spread betting brokers charge for holding a position overnight as opposed to day trading. For long-term derivatives positions, these overnight financing rates can add up to a huge amount. So, in this guide, I will explain what overnight fund fees are, how they are charged and how
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CMC Markets has launched a new ChatGPT integration that lets UK CFD traders connect their trading accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask questions about their positions, orders and market data. At the moment, it is only a conversational interface to CMC Markets account information, allowing clients to retrieve and summarise data without having to navigate
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Investa has launched completely free US share trading, removing not only dealing commissions but also the foreign exchange fees that investors would normally expect to pay when buying American stocks from the UK. The FCA-regulated options trading app says customers can now buy and sell US shares without commission, FX charges or other trading fees,
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