- GAIN Capital announced the launch of Learn to Trade Forex, an online trading course designed to educate individual investors on the fundamentals of forex trading. The course focuses on understanding currency quotations and the factors that drive individual currency movements; reading and analyzing currency charts using advanced technical tools; effectively utilizing the leverage available in forex trading; managing risk and protecting open positions using stop-loss and other order types; anticipating and reacting to major economic events impacting global currency prices; and employing sound money-management techniques to maximize gains and limit losses. In addition, all students receive a demo account funded with $25,000 of virtual money to practice lessons learned on a live trading platform. For more information, visit www.learn-to-trade-forex.com.
- Portware LLC has implemented access to Hotspot FXi — a leading multibank foreign exchange marketplace — via Portware Professional, a trade and execution management system. The integration allows Portware users to directly place FX orders into the Hotspot FXi marketplace via the user interface and incorporate FX trades into automated trading strategies executed across the global equities, futures, and options markets. Portware and Hotspot FXi’s leading edge systems are linked through a FIX gateway, providing users with instantaneous FX trading capability and live, streaming, executable market data supplied by Hotspot FXi’s network of top-rated bank market makers and nstitutional customers. For more information, visit www.portware.com
- FFastFill announced the start of its application service in support of the new CME/Reuters service, which gives Reuters users direct access to CME’s foreign exchange futures and enhances the ability to trade FX spot and futures. FFastFill has been responsible for building and maintaining a trade order routing service that enables traders using Reuters to also execute CME’s FX futures contracts. FFastFill has initially signed four major institutions —ABN AMRO, Bank of America, HSBC, and the Royal Bank of Scotland — for this service. These CME clearing members will not only support their internal trading teams, but also offer a service to non-clearing member firms that use the Reuters platform.
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