The concept behind social trading has been around for several years. The idea is to utilize the wisdom of the crowd, or of more experienced traders, to derive better trading results. In social trading, investors participate in a community, sharing ideas, tips, and discussions. Social trading is so-called because it works on the same lines…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview… LMAX Exchange Group’s 2018 financials report has gone out last month, releasing excellent growth and record financial performance for the year ended 31st December 2018. It has been almost two years since our last interview with David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Exchange. What has changed in the company since then, what are…
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The sudden breakout in Bitcoin prices last week, the highest since early December, have seen analysts rallying behind the positive climb, with many viewing the bounce as the long-awaited return to an impending bull run. The rise is not solely reserved for Bitcoin as alt coins too take a leap forward, Messari reports. While the…
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Leaprate Exclusive... Skilling, led by CEO Anders Berglund, announced earlier that its new online forex and CFD trading platform is now open to the public. The company’s trading platform is said to be user-friendly, simple to understand, and aims to be fully accessible to everyone who wants to trade in forex, cryptocurrencies, indices, stocks and…
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The provider of big data analytics to financial institutions RavenPack just launched a new portfolio ranking tool based on sentiment factors. The new tool provides on-demand ranking of more than 50,000 companies and aims to help financial professionals build stronger portfolios. Users will now be able to create lists of positive or negative sentiment stocks…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Towards the end of Q4, Equiti Group had officially completed the rebranding of its UK entity as part of its global growth strategy. The company showed strong financial results in 2018. Brian Myers, CEO of Equiti Capital, joins LeapRate today to discuss what's new in the company. LR: Hi Brian and thank you for joining…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Tokenization on Blockchain has been a steady trend throughout 2018. It seems that everything is being tokenized on Blockchain from paintings, diamonds and company stocks to real estate. Former MD of Morgan Stanley Patrick Springer recently joined LeapRate to talk about asset tokenization and explained why rebalancing your asset allocation might be the next best…
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Leaprate Exclusive... UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has announced the launch of IG US, its US-based subsidiary offering foreign exchange (forex) services in the beginning of the month. Through trading with IG US, clients will be able to trade on over 80 currency pairs with lower spreads vs the top two US forex…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Bitsdaq, the official Asia partner of US cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex, has just announced the launch of the Bitsdaq Exchange. Bitsdaq is the second official partner with an Asian focus selected by Bittrex, following Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Upbit. We are very excited to be partnering with Bittrex on what we believe will be…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Coin Futures and CoinFLEX will be offering futures contracts as soon as next month to the Asian market. The new contracts will provide possible leverage of up to 20 times. Such physical futures contracts are considered to be more valuable, as the value is tied to an underlying asset, rather than fiat currency.…
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