Financial visualization platform TradingView today sought to explain the reason for the difference between the FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) historical data on tradingview.com and FXCM Trading Station. The reason for this, TradingView claims, is the FXCM API, which does not guarantee that all ticks are delivered to a charting platform like TradingView. This API is capable…
Read moreRetail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) has announced key customer trading metrics for March 2016 for both its retail and institutional foreign exchange business. Not surprisingly, retail volumes in March were down at FXCM (by 6%), in line with what we have seen at most other leading brokers. However institutional volumes popped more than 50%…
Read moreContinuing a theme we've seen among many participants in the Forex industry, this week saw LeapRate report exclusively on upcoming website / GUI changes at two of the better know names in Retail Forex: popular trader site FXStreet, and broker Forex.com. Our most popular guest post of the week is courtesy of Leverate's Ben Richter on…
Read moreHalifax New Zealand clients will get access the FXCM Trading Station or FXCM MT4 trading platforms and services.
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive Interview.... It would be an understatement to say that the past 14 months have been topsy turvy for the people who run FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM), one of the world's leading retail forex brokers. After narrowly avoiding bankruptcy in the Swiss Franc spike of January 15, 2015 which left FXCM with more than $275 million…
Read moreFXCM Asia, formerly a part of FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) and currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten Securities, today announces its pending rebranding. FXCM Asia Limited (FXCM Asia) will be rebranded as Rakuten Securities Hong Kong Limited (Rakuten Securities HK) on April 21, 2016. This serves to reflect the company business development after Rakuten Securities,…
Read moreLots of news out of FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) last night. As reported at LeapRate, after US markets closed Thursday at 21:00 GMT, FXCM released its: February FX trading volumes (not bad, all-important retail volumes remain above $300 billion), Q4 and full year financial results (again not bad, Q4 revenues were actually up a bit over…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... Continuing our exclusive coverage of the Chapter 11 filing of NFA-regulated FX introducing broker ATC Brokers US and its parent company Avail Trading Corp., LeapRate has learned that FXCM has now dropped ATC as a referring broker, effective March 18. FXCM sent out emails on Tuesday (see a copy below) to all clients which…
Read moreIt was a fairly good week for shares of retail forex brokers. (At least for some of them). Hottest of the group was FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM), which saw speculation heat up again regarding its ability to seal a deal with Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) and renegotiate terms of its $300 million loan from Leucadia. FXCM shares…
Read moreOnline trading services provider FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) today published spread data for some of the most popular currency pairs for 2015. According to the report, the average spread for EUR/USD during peak hours was 0.3 pips, whereas the spread was 0.1 pips or less during 8.32% of the time in 2015. Below you can find…
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