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We got a chance to look under the bonnet of two of the leading margin trading providers this week as both Gain Capital and Saxo Bank published their monthly volume figures for September. Gain Capital, of course, is the owner of City Index here in the UK, but the parent company is listed in New […]
A tough September for both Gain Capital and Saxo Bank Read More »
Yesterday saw one of the most important monetary acts this year. The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, announced that the central bank would resume purchases of short-term Treasury bonds in order to bolster its balance sheet. This follows after weeks of shortages in the short-term fund market. ‘I want to emphasise,’ stressed Mr Powell, ‘that growth of
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XTB has recently released an upgraded mobile trading app, with a raft of powerful new features, driven by both client demand and their own in-house innovations team. XTB has always been strongly focussed on customer experience. To optimise their client journey and improve the overall trading experience, they have implemented a series of improvements to
xStation 5 – XTB Launches an Upgraded Mobile Trading App Read More »
CMC Markets provided investors with an update yesterday, in the shape of its pre-close trading statement. Apparently it’s not all doom and gloom in the margin trading world. Recently IG posted a positive update, and now CMC Markets’ pre-close statement was pretty upbeat and contained some positive guidance. This is the last chance to look
CMC Markets publish a confident H1 2020 trading update Read More »
We recently highlighted the latest moves among US online brokers to win and retain market share, namely offering commission-free trading on a range of physical US equities and ETFs. No need to queue for order execution Since Interactive Brokers announced their new service rivals E*Trade and TD Ameritrade have announced their own commission-free trading initiatives.
Cboe gives order priority to US Retail Investors. Will UK exchanges follow? Read More »
Good news for London based Forex brokers, the FX market just received its triennial health check in the shape of the Bank for International Settlements Global FX Survey. The BIS, which is headquartered in Basel Switzerland, was formed back in1930 and is the bank for central banks. The BIS sets out policy and regulation for
A clean bill of health for London and the global FX markets Read More »
Over recent weeks there have been several new initiatives from brokerages (cough cough Saxo Capital Markets social video ads) aimed at differentiating themselves from their peers. That’s only to be expected in an increasingly competitive marketplace, where many of the providers are little more than glorified resellers of other people’s liquidity and software. US automotive
Will we see the return of high touch trading? Read More »
Short sellers are netting a fortune these days. According to the FCA net-short disclosure data (available here), the top 10 most shorted stocks in the LSE are: Thomas Cook Metro Bank Debenhams Kier Group Wood Group IQE Babcock International Arrow Global Pearson Weir Thomas Cook (TCG) collapsed into administration this week giving the short-sellers massive gains.
Bears reaped massive gains from Thomas Cook, Pearson and Metro Bank Read More »
CMC Markets has decided to sharply reduce the levels of margin required on government bond contracts traded through it, a move that goes against the regulatory grain as it were. CMC Markets‘ reduction in margin levels are quite substantial with deposit levels falling from 20% of the trade value to just 3.30% on a wide
CMC Markets reduces the margins on government bond spread betting & CFD trading Read More »
Gain Capital’s spread betting and margin trading business City Index made an announcement earlier this week, concerning changes to the company’s charting packages. The changes that spread betting broker City Index are going to make may sound low key, but they may have some interesting ramifications and highlight the inflexibility inherent in some very popular
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