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CMC Markets DMA Stock CFDs

CMC Markets add DMA Equity CFDs to it’s Prime Derivatives offering

CMC Markets strengthens its offering for institutional clients with the launch of Prime Derivatives and DMA equity CFDs. Derivatives broker CMC Markets has announced the launch of a new institutional offering, Prime Derivatives. It’s a move which expands its institutional offering to include single stock CFD trading. The launch follows on from last year’s launch

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Technical analysis versus fundamental analysis in spread betting

Technical analysis and fundamental analysis are both useful tools in trading and investing.  The general consensus is that fundamental analysis is more useful for longer-term investments.  Technical analysis is better for short-term trading and speculation.  Mainly because it looks at market timing and provides a good visual aid for traders to compare to historic events.

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Saxo Bank valued at EUR 1.325 billion following regulatory approval of share sale to Geely

Saxo Bank, the owner of leading CFD broker Saxo Capital Markets, today received regulatory approval for China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd (Geely Holding Group) and Sampo plc of Finland (Sampo) to buy out (amoung others) Saxo founder Lars Seier Christensen. The deal values Saxo bank at EUR 1.325 billion. If you’ve not used Saxo

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aYondo’s reaction to ESMA’s loss percentage is priceless..

I know that’s a massive clickbait headline, but I couldn’t resist highlighting the somewhat sarcastic risk warning on ayondo’s website. Whilst perusing through the client trading loss percentage report on Finance Magnates, I noticed that ayondo wasn’t featured. Which was a little odd, especially as eToro ranks as a broker that has one of the

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What makes London the best place for foreign exchange traders?

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

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Getting CMC Market updates on Alexa seems like a step backward, not technological progress

I saw a post shared on LinkedIn by CMC Markets founder Peter Cruddas that you can now get market updates on Alexa from CMC. Great I thought, excellent, now when I’m doing something like they do in adverts such as cooking, or sitting at my massive bank of forex trading screens and just casually say

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