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11 Most Popular Forex Articles of 2011
The holiday season that marks the year’s end is getting close. 2011 was a very volatile year, with many dramatic events. Here is a list of 11 most popular articles published on Forex Crunch in 2011. The list doesn’t include the regular sections, such as EUR/USD weekly outlook or the forex news section. It also
FXCM Saw More Tradeable Accounts, Higher Retail Volume, Lower Institutional Volume
US forex broker FXCM released its trading metrics for the month of November 2011. This includes separate figures for retail and institutional clients. The number of retail tradeable accounts continued rising and reached 192,772. Also trading volume among retail customers continued rising and reached $345 billion. Regarding institutional trading, the broker saw a drop in
Trade Responsibly Chapter 5: Execution is Everything
Carefully choosing a forex broker isn’t an easy task. There are lots of brokers out there and each one has a well designed sign up page with “exciting” features. Assuming you took the advice in the previous chapter and decided to trade only with a registered broker, the options are still wide. So what should you
If Your Broker Insults You, It’s Time To Run
There are sophisticated ways to squeeze money out of you in an elegant way. But even if you aren’t aware of what your broker is doing, once he begins insulting you, well, I hope you can still get your money. Here’s a story. I’ve recently received an email from a trader that was very upset
Don’t Blame the Broker
It’s just too easy to blame the broker – you lose a trade and blame the broker for stretching the market in order to stop you out. You try to exit a trade at a busy moment and you blame your broker for freezing the platform in order to prevent you from making a profit.
GFT Rebates – Switch Brokers Easily?
GFT wants a more forex traders, and offers a nice incentive to woo them from other brokers – a one pip rebate for every trade the trader made – as long as they prove they have another account. This promotion is very interesting because of the targeting – GFT targets only existing forex traders, excluding
It Hit Stop Loss? That Must Be Wrong
So you wake up in the morning, check out your positions and find out that your position was closed – your pair reached the stop loss and the position was closed with a loss. You think that “you win some, you lose some”, and in this case you lost. But wait. Something is wrong this
Markets.com Now Alive – A Rebranding of GFC
GFC Markets was a relatively young forex broker. It grew fast and now moves forward by rebranding with a lucrative domain name – markets.com. In addition to the shiny new name, they are adding useful tools to traders: 7 different trading platforms, including MT4, a browser based platform and mobile applications which see a growing
How To Get Ready For The New CFTC Rules
The new CFTC rules regarding forex trading in the US will come into effect soon. Apart from the infamous leverage limit, they include also include interesting things. Here are important things to look out for
The Face of the Forex Trader
Initial results from a wide survey of forex traders has been released and has interesting findings about the reasons for choosing forex, reasons for choosing brokers, the most popular pairs, and lots more . Here are the key findings