FOREX BLOG: 2010

IKONFX.COM

Ikon Group, constituting a number of Ikon companies, services, supports and promotes all the Ikon companies and their financial products worldwide. Ikon Group comprises Ikon GM in New York, Ikon Capital in London, Ikon FX NZ in Auckland, Ikon Russia, Ikon Arabia in Dubai and Ikon Financial Services in China with further prompt expansion in 2010 through Ikon Japan and Ikon India.

Ikon Group is a powerful brand name, backed by powerful products giving customers direct access to the online global financial markets at a fraction of the normal cost by utilizing cutting edge technology and knowhow. Ikon Group maintains offices in Auckland, Beijing, Chicago, Dubai, Istanbul, London, Moscow, Shanghai, Shenzhen and New York.


Technology
Heavily invested in technology, we offer global clearing and risk management services to both retail and institutional clients. Our up-to-the-minute technology ensures our superiority in being a head of our competitors worldwide. We provide banks, institutional and retail clients and investment professionals with a single source for financial products and brokerage services.

We are the only Group Company in the world to offer no less than 15 platforms in online Forex and Metals trading worldwide and over 8 other platforms in the fields of Futures, CFDs, Options, NASDAQ Futures Exchange (NFX) and Non Deliverable Forwards (NDF) products. In addition, we also offer our clients Prime Brokerage facilities, Physical delivery of Currencies and Bullions, White label partner programs, straight-through processing, Exchanges constructions, Market Making APIs and technologies.

FOREXPROS.COM

Fusion Media Ltd. was established in order to provide the best possible web portals, covering specific financial segments such as Forex, Futures Financial Spreads and CFD’s. With a strong grounding in the latest internet technology, Fusion Media has developed portals that provide the retail customer with a simple yet functionally rich online surfing environment. Fusion Media is especially proud of its multi-lingual network of sites.

With a solid background in financial markets, our goal is to provide both novice and experienced traders with neutral and unbiased information on specific financial segments, including Brokers, Fund managers, Real-time quotes & charts, Courses, Books, Software Providers, Educational & Training Materials, News, Analysis, Special offers and more. This fusion of technical ability and financial knowledge enables our users to take better, more educated decisions about their financial segment interest.

TRADESYSTEMFX.COM

A trade signal - is a precise prediction of a purchase price or selling price of Stop-Loss or Take-Profit level in the Forex market. The FX System trade signals are generated in real-time for each of the following currency pairs:

USD/CHF, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, EUR/USD, EUR/JPY
Trade signals are sent to you in real-time in plaintext format at your e-mail or you cell phone via SMS.

«FX Trade System» is up 24 hours a day five working days a week. You are always free to move around and are not attached to a certain place or broker. After you have registered in the «FX Trade System», you’ll be able to access its services – the trade signals that contain the market entry prices and the Take-Profit and Stop-Loss levels for different currency pairs.

•«FX Trade System» is profitable for each currency pair.
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•«FX Trade System» is simple and intuitive in use.
•«FX Trade System» allows you to change your contact e-mail of phone number to send signals to.

FOREXCULT.COM

Against all expectations the Q2 GDP figures for the UK economy demonstrated a growth of a remarkable 1.1%, one of the highest figures found anywhere amongst the emerging economies. Whilst political parties on both sides of the House debated as to who should receive the credit for such a boost, the real results were being felt across the markets. As the figures were released, unsurprisingly, sterling took a bounce against both the dollar and the euro. This hike wasn’t solely the result of the good GDP figures for the UK, but also on the back of fears that the stress-testing of euro banks would reveal that some banks weren’t quite up to scratch. These fears were later born out, and sterling looks set to rise further across the coming week. Economic experts in the UK predicted rather gloomily that the 1.1% growth would be as a good as it gets, pointing to the growth provided by the building and construction sector as a one-off due to catching up on the backlog left behind after the particularly bad weather of the winter. There is, however, another problem in the long run for the UK economy and that’s the fact that as long as it continues to perform well (or, more accurately, outperform the eurozone) sterling growing stronger is not actually going to be that much of an assistance to the recovery. The UK’s largest trading partner by far is Europe, and the government really needs a weaker pound against the euro to bring in extra trade to the UK and further drive the recovery. Of course, on current evidence, that simply isn’t going to happen, or not for any time soon, leaving the UK without a major region to export to (a problem that isn’t unique to Britain by any stretch)…

TFOREX.NET

Internet Forex Trading Information blog – your source of trading news, tips and tricks at forex market. Welcome to forex trading blog

Forex Strategy
Forex Signals

What are forex signals?

Forex signals are essentially any piece of information or news which can affect the forex market (i.e. the price of any given currency exchange market) positively or negatively. For example, when Greece, a member of the EU which trades Euros announced it was going to go bankrupt if other nations did not assist, it’s financial situation, it drove down the price of Euros. Depending on one’s strategy, one could have then bought Euros at the point which they thought was the lowest price of Euros, or sold their Euros immediately from the high price which they bought it to avoid losing money. Because this was such a drastic announcement, almost all currencies, (if not all currencies) gained on the Euro on that day, which is a defacto loss on the value of the Euro, and even the following 3 or 4 days.

Most forex signals will drive the market up or down by a tiny fraction of a percent from which people will gain or lose. This requires a high attention to detail since such drastic signals only happen a few times a year. To emphasize the point, in our example, we experienced the most drastic negative financial forecast by Greece which drove down the price of Euros vs all other currencies in full percentages. Usually, however, when dealing with forex, we are working with 1/1000 of a percent up to 1/100 of a percent or what’s called pips.

An example of a smaller signal which can affect a currency negatively or positively, is what major news outlets are broadcasting. The information, (“signal”) can be an opinion, a fact, or a mistake – it does not necessarily have to be true, false or corroborated, but rather, the trader can know that today CNN is publishing on their website a negative forecast for jobs by an independent polling service in the USA and this can certainly affect the value of the dollar. For this reason, it is imperative to have wide knowledge of what is currently being broadcasted by governments, tv networks news outlets, and even major websites in order to have the most up-to-date signals.

IFCMARKETS.COM

IFC Markets Corp. is a member of IFCM Group. It is involved in development and execution of various projects in the field of financial technologies.

IFC Markets is a commercial company, offering brokerage services of trading futures, options, securities, foreign exchange and other instruments. IFC Markets is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands under registration number IBC CAP. 291 Reg. № 669838. IFC Markets conforms to all commonly accepted brokerage and financial services standards.

The main asset that distinguishes IFC Markets from the majority of other broker-companies is the use of trading platform of a new generation NetTradeX. The platform is a result of several years of work of highly-qualified specialists of the NetTradeX company which is also a member of IFCM Group.

IFC Markets aims to provide its customers with top-level services, such as online no-volume-dependence request-free trade, instant orders execution, low spreads, no commission and a 24/5 support service.

IFC Markets collaborates with well known companies and banks including Interactive Brokers, Deutsche Bank and others.

According to its strategy, IFC Markets has already set up a worldwide network of regional branches, attending to customers needs in Latin America, Arabic countries, Europe, Southeast Asia and Russia.

One of the most attractive IB-programs in the market allows our Introducing Brokers to get a considerable revenue from their activity.

Another member of IFCM Group is the I Securities Global Ltd. company, a popular trading platform MetaTrader 4 licensiate. Our clients enjoy a possibility of using both NetTradeX and MetaTrader 4 trading analytical platforms.

IFCM Consulting Limited is also a member of IFCM Group and collaborates with IFC Markets Corp. to process banking card transfers to IFC Markets Corp. trading accounts.

FOREXORDERS.COM

This is a website dedicated to everything related to Forex. It is far more than a forex website, it is also a community.
This website allows you to interact with like-minded persons and share your passion about your own trading tips.

Whether you are a beginner and just looking for basic information to get you started or at an advanced level, there is something for you here at our website.


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FOREXPROS.ES

Fusion Media Ltd. fue establecida para ofrecer los mejores portales web, cubriendo segmentos específicos del sector financiero como Forex, Future Financial Spreads y CFD. Con una sólida base de la mas moderna tecnología en internet, Fusion Media ha desarrollado portales que ofrecen al cliente un entorno simple y a la vez funcionalmente rico para navegar en la red.
Fusion Media esta especialmente orgulloso de su red multilingüe de sitios web.

Con una sólida experiencia en los mercados financieros, nuestro objetivo es ofrecer tanto a comerciantes principiantes como experimentados información imparcial sobre segmentos específicos del panorama financiero.
Lo que incluye Brokers, Administradores de Fondos, Graficos y Cuotas, Cursos, Libros, Proveedores de Software, Noticias, Análisis, Materiales Educativos, Ofertas Especiales y mucho mas.
Esta fusion de habilidad tecnica y conocimiento financiero permite a nuestros usuarios tomar decisiones mas acertadas y educadas sobre su interes particular en el mercado financiero.

FOREX.COM

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Our mission is to be your premier source for all things forex.

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WHAT IS FOREX?

The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a worldwide decentralized over-the-counter financial market for the trading of currencies. Financial centers around the world function as anchors of trading between a wide range of different types of buyers and sellers around the clock, with the exception of weekends. The foreign exchange market determines the relative values of different currencies.

The primary purpose of the foreign exchange market is to assist international trade and investment, by allowing businesses to convert one currency to another currency. For example, it permits a US business to import British goods and pay Pound Sterling, even though the business's income is in US dollars. It also supports speculation, and facilitates the carry trade, in which investors borrow low-yielding currencies and lend (invest in) high-yielding currencies, and which (it has been claimed) may lead to loss of competitiveness in some countries.

In a typical foreign exchange transaction a party purchases a quantity of one currency by paying a quantity of another currency. The modern foreign exchange market started forming during the 1970s when countries gradually switched to floating exchange rates from the previous exchange rate regime, which remained fixed as per the Bretton Woods system.

The foreign exchange market is unique because of its

huge trading volume, leading to high liquidity
geographical dispersion
continuous operation: 24 hours a day except weekends, i.e. trading from 20:15 GMT on Sunday until 22:00 GMT Friday
the variety of factors that affect exchange rates
the low margins of relative profit compared with other markets of fixed income
the use of leverage to enhance profit margins with respect to account size
As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal of perfect competition, notwithstanding market manipulation by central banks. According to the Bank for International Settlements, average daily turnover in global foreign exchange markets is estimated at $3.98 trillion, as of April 2007. $3.21 Trillion is accounted for in the world's main financial markets.

The $3.21 trillion break-down is as follows:

$1.005 trillion in spot transactions
$362 billion in outright forwards
$1.714 trillion in foreign exchange swaps
$129 billion estimated gaps in reporting