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Our comparison of the best trading platforms rank pricing, market access, customer services, apps and what added value a broker offers.

8 new things you may not know you were able to do when trading with Spreadex

If you haven’t read our Spreadex review yet, here are a few new features you may not know you were able to do with the alternative spread betting broker: Get tighter spreads – Spreadex have new variable spreads on FX offer greater value for trading foreign exchange. E.g. trade EUR/USD from a 0.6 spread and

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Mark Hanney, CEO of Valbury Capital about filling the multi-asset mid-market broker-dealer gap

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

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Bitcoin CFDs – The Main Advantages & Disadvantages

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

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GetGo Trading App review – Is this the future of Forex signal trading?

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

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Calling all traders. You’ve only got until the 5th February to give your feedback to ESMA on leverage cuts

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority is considering proposals to reduce the amount of leverage available to private clients trading CFDs, FOREX and spread betting to a maximum of 30:1. Leverage has historically been as high as 500:1 so this may significantly reduce the amount of exposure clients can trade on. Clearly there are

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Former City Index COO Simon Bird becomes executive chairman of Ikon Finance

Simon Bird, the former COO of financial spread betting broker City Index, has been named as non-executive chairman of Ikon Finance Limited, part of the multinational Ikon Group. The announcement confirms rumours that began in the autumn that Bird was set to return to the industry with Ikon, which is due to re-launch in 2018.

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Threat of regulatory crackdown hits spread-betting shares

The news of a potential regulatory tightening around financial spread betting has hit the shares of leading spread betting companies. Friday’s late announcement by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) that it was looking at a potential ban on the promotion of binary options to retail customers sent the shares of leading operators into

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