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Information for EU Clients: Trading After Brexit

UK financial and investment companies provide regulated trading services to EU clients by relying on EU law rights to provide services across the EU by the means of “passporting”. The UK withdrew from the EU on 31 January 2020. Under the Withdrawal Agreement, UK firms have continued to provide [...]

FXCM Temporarily Stops Accepting EU Customers

Due to the looming Brexit deadline, FXCM, a reputable spread betting, CFDs, and forex broker, becomes the first broker to announce that they are temporarily shutting the door and not accepting customers from the EU. FXCM have been in the industry for 20 years and made this decision to be [...]

Benefits Of Testing New CFD Strategies

Traders who learn new CFD strategies and are preparing to implement them within their portfolio should take the time to test these techniques in the sandbox environment of a demo account, in order to iron out any creases or problems without risking any capital. With a variety of different strategies, [...]

Company Update: Sale of ETX Capital to Guru Capital

The team at ETX Capital is delighted to announce that the company’s current shareholders have agreed terms of a sale of ETX Capital to a fund associated with Guru Capital, a Switzerland-based private equity firm with a special focus on FX and CFD Brokerage.   Roger Nagioff, Founding Partner [...]

ETFinance Review and Investigation – Gone

A new broker's in town... this time it's ETFinance. Are they any good? Having searched online we decided to share our findings. All the information is in the public domain so please feel free to double check, if you wish. Are ET Finance any good? Broker ETFinance Has [...]

Importance Of A Trading Plan To Succeed In Forex Business

Just like the advice given to a beginner in any business, failing to plan is seen as the basis for planning to fail. Following a written plan definitely helps a trader to succeed in forex business just like any other. A written plan may not ensure guarantee in the forex [...]

Belgium Bans Forex and CFD Trading

Belgium's market regulator, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), has announced a decree prohibiting retail online trading of forex and CFDs, starting from August 18, 2016. In compliance with the above, regulated brokers will no longer be accepting clients from Belgium. Belgium Prohibits Forex and CFD Trading for Retail [...]

Spreadex MD J Hufford Discusses Spread Betting and Company

Sitting at the intersection of sports betting and financial markets, Spreadex goes relatively unnoticed despite profit margins that fixed-odds rivals can only dream of. Brad Allen from EGR spoke to the firm’s MD Jonathan Hufford to find out the Spreadex secret.It is a marketing rule of thumb that a consumer’s [...]

Goodbye Capital Spreads – Final Review

The Capital Spreads trading platform is being closed and will be replaced by LCG's new and enhanced trading platform, LCG Trader. Your Capital Spreads account (including your account balance) will be migrated to LCG Trader between the 23rd and 30th of April 2016. You will not be able to [...]

Norwegian Share CFDs Available for Trading

DF Markets have expanded their traded instruments selection by adding 21 Norwegian share CFDs. These are now available for trading on all versions of the DFTrader platform (desktop, web, mobile). Besides shares of the biggest Norwegian oil and gas companies such as Fred Olsen Energy (FOE/nor), the newly-added CFDs include [...]

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