Volumes averaged $131.2B per month in trading volume in 2013. Russian brokerage powerhouse Alpari has revealed its key performance indicators for 2013. It is claiming to be the only company in the country to release internal figures to the public. The latest batch is rather impressive – Alpari Russia has announced in a press conference…
Read moreTotal number of traders rises by one-third, retail banks businesses expand swiftly Russian newspaper Vedomosti has put out an article providing data from a report on the retail forex industry by the Center for Economic Analysis of Russian non-governmental news agency Interfax. According to the article in 2013 there was a total of 400 000…
Read moreAlpari Russia binary options traders can now tailor their own expiry times Alpari Russia has issued a brief press release outlining the introduction of a new feature for its binary options trading module. The technology provider of the Russian arm of the major forex brokerage has made available a fresh addition to its platform by…
Read moreAlpari Russia rose to $137B, but rest-of-world fell to $113B, its lowest level since April Following a drop in September, Alpari Group has reported volumes declining for a second consecutive month in October. While Russian forex volumes have risen by 8% to $137B, the rest-of-world metrics have subsided to show a rather substantial decline by…
Read moreStarting November 25 Alpari Russia will no longer support ZuluTrade. Alpari (Russia) has announced that they are breaking up with social and copy trading service provider ZuluTrade. All standard.zulutrade, ecn.zulutrade and ecn-new.zulutrade accounts at Alpari will be converted to MT4, tradable only through the MetaTrader 4 platform. Alpari clients who prefer automated trading will need, for the…
Read moreFurther demonstrates independence of Alpari units – as well as hot competition in binary platform sector. Binary options platform provider MarketsPulse has issued a press release stating that Alpari Russia has launched binary options trading based on its platform (we had reported it earlier here). That's certainly a good win for MarketsPulse -- Alpari Russia has…
Read moreAlpari Russia volumes hit $127 billion in September, rest-of-world $133 billion. After setting its best-ever volume record in August (normally a slow time!) at $280 billion, things cooled off somewhat at Alpari Group in September. Russia forex volumes dropped 5%, rest-of-world volumes fell 9%, leading to an overall -7% month for the leading forex broker.…
Read moreAlpari saw significant growth in international volumes in normally-slow August. Some follow-up to our earlier piece on Alpari's record August volumes... The folks at Alpari have been nice enough to break out for us Alpari Russia volumes versus rest-of-the-world (mainly Alpari UK). Historically, more than 50% of the Alpari Group's volumes have come from Russia,…
Read moreThe majority of Alpari Group's trading volumes come from Russia. So far, August volume metrics reported by both retail forex brokers and institutional forex trading venues seem to be very hit and miss. By that, we mean that some firms are seeing the typical summer-break slowdown in forex trading, while others are (somewhat surprisingly) seeing…
Read moreAlpari does more than half of all its forex volumes in Russia and the CIS. Global forex broker Alpari Group has made an interesting (and only partial) disclosure of its first half and Q2 volumes. Alpari indicated that in Q2 volumes from Alpari Russia averaged $135.3 billion per month, and $131.4 billion for the full…
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