Sentiment analysis ‘trending’ tools gaining traction in both Forex and Equity trading worlds Those of you who have recently visited popular financial portal MarketWatch.com, a Dow Jones / Wall Street Journal brand, may have noticed a new ‘Trending on Twitter’ bar at the bottom of their home page. Rather than reporting on the latest escapades…
Read moreTwitter (NYSE:TWTR) will need to trade up more than 60% on Thursday for greymarket traders to make money. Retail forex brokers plan to make a lot of money around Twitter's IPO and the event of Twitter becoming a public company. But how about the Twitter greymarket traders? After many months of anticipation and (seemingly endless) talk…
Read moreAvaTrade offering free Twitter shares, IG pushes Twitter trading The buzz surrounding Twitter’s IPO is helping some forex brokers break new ground in their marketing campaigns. Dublin based AvaTrade is running a 25 Free Twitter Shares campaign, offering new traders who register for an account a what essentially equates to a free 50 USD/EUR sign up bonus.…
Read moreTwitter is expected to price its IPO later this week, greymarket pegs $22-$23 billion valuation. After much anticipation, social networking icon Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) is finally expected to price its IPO later this week (November 7), barring any last minute change in plans. And while the latest version of Twitter's IPO prospectus still shows a $10-$11…
Read moreTwitter IPO targeting November 15 to begin trading as Twitter prepares for an end-of-October investor roadshow. Twitter has issued an update to its IPO prospectus, and in it surprised many in the financial world by selecting to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:TWTR) over Nasdaq. Nasdaq is home to many if…
Read moreTwitter now being valued at between $17-$18 billion, well above the $11 billion figure when the Twitter IPO was announced. Quick update on one of the more interesting stories we've been covering lately, that of Twitter's upcoming IPO. As we wrote earlier, some enterprising forex brokers in the UK -- namely ETX Capital and IG.com --…
Read moreIG Group and ETX Capital already allow (greymarket) trading of Twitter shares. It seems as if those who bought in (very) early to Twitter are already ahead.... Social microblogging site Twitter has finally made final its IPO prospectus, which includes its plans to value the company at about $12.8 billion. As we wrote earlier, several…
Read moreIG's rebranding and reorganizing has gone beyond the purchase of domain name IG.com. LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Tim Hughes has left IG Group. Hughes had joined IG as a graduate in 2000, and through 13 years at the company moved up to become Head of Sales until 2010 when Hughes was promoted to…
Read moreUK Spreadbetting company ETX sets up Twitter greymarket with $10.5-$11.5 billion valuation spread. LeapRate Exclusive... Forex and spreadbetting traders are very familiar with the power of social networking, so it is no surprise that Forex brokers are going to harness the popularity surrounding Twitter's just-announced IPO to attract traders. The first? UK spreadbetting firm ETX…
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