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London is still the top spot for Forex trading according to City-Am and Reuters latest findings. But why is London such a draw for foreign exchange trading? On an average day in April London executed around £2.7 trillion in FX transactions, whilst our friends across the pond only did about half that ($994bn). In the […]
What makes London the best place for foreign exchange traders? Read More »
A man’s game no longer: more and more women are getting involved with spread betting and they’re proving to be better at it than the men. From Gordon Gecko to the Wolf of Wallsteet, the trading floor often feels like a man’s world, but that’s not quite as true as it used to be. More
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Thanks for talking to us Josh. First and foremost, why the switch to XTB? To be perfectly honest, I had been at City Index (Gain Capital) for a decade and fancied a change. The industry has grown so much over my tenure that you have to constantly evolve to keep ahead of the competition. I
Managing your own SIPP certainly gives you a significant amount of control over your long term investments. But should you include CFDs in a SIPP account and which brokers offer CFDs in a SIPP? Here are the basics of trading CFDs in a SIPP account… Firstly can you hold CFDs in a SIPP? Yes, you
Trading CFDs in your SIPP. Could you and should you? Read More »
Peter Cruddas, the founder of leading spread betting broker CMC Markets was quoted in The Times this morning in an article about the end of churn and burn broking. Cruddas highlighted that the days of high client turnover was gone for CMC and that they were focusing on only the “tastiest fish in the sea”
Why no decent spread betting or CFD broker should actually want churn and burn clients Read More »
If you’re looking to escape the clutches of ESMA’s leverage cap by going with an ASIC regulated broker and taking your trading offshore here are a few things you need to know. ASIC regulated brokers Pepperstone is the largest Aussie broker by far. City Index, is a well established UK broker also regulated by ASIC
Fed up with ESMA and looking for an ASIC regulated CFD or FOREX broker? Read More »
ETX Capital’s award-winning TraderPro platform was relaunched last year with full HTML 5 functionality and boasting a range of new features. Here’s a quick look at three features you may have missed… In-chart trading You can now carry out virtually all your trading from within the charts. These innovative new design features make it possible
Top 3 new ETX Capital TraderPro platform features you may not know about… Read More »
Valbury is a relatively new broker in the multi asset space, what was the incentive for setting it up? Valbury Capital was founded in 2010, so I wouldn’t call it a new broker. The incentive to establish the company was an anticipated return of the specialist mid-market, that sector of the financial markets that sits
Please note that since this article was written the FCA has banned retail traders from trading cryptocurrency derivatives. If you would like to speculate on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies you need to use a cryptocurrency exchange or professional trading account. What are Bitcoin CFDs? Bitcoin CFDs allow traders to speculate on the price of Bitcoin without
Bitcoin CFDs – The Main Advantages & Disadvantages Read More »
For this GetGo trading app review, let’s get something straight from the get go. Most forex signal providers are hopeless, some are even outright scams referring inexperienced traders to off shore binary options brokers. I was even flicking through Instagram the other day and noticed that Johnny from Love Island even has his own forex
GetGo Trading App review – Is this the future of Forex signal trading? Read More »
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