Alan’s Forex Blog

(Hopefully For Good)

by Pharaoh

Suffering from an untreatable case of writing addiction.
I’d like to thank the FPA’s Scam Investigations Committee for letting me write this article. I’ve been waiting for this day to come for a long time now.
Back in the ancient days, when the Earth was still cooling and the [...]

ZuluTrade has announced that its collaborating with a new forex broker, AAAFx. AAAFx is directly integrated with the ZuluTrade Platform and is ZuluTrade’s best choice, from both a technical and a business point of view. You can now enjoy the unique benefits of the ZuluTrade Platform without [...]

Hi everyone. I’m willing to bet that by now you’ve probably already heard about MetaQuote’s new MetaTrader 5 trading platform. As you can tell by the name MetaTrader 5 is going to be the successor to the veteran MetaTrader 4 platform that so many traders already use, including yours truly.
MetaTrader 5 was scheduled for release [...]

Hi everyone. I’ve got some big forex news that may or may not affect some of you – hopefully for the better though. I just learned today from a member of the Forex Nirvana forum on this thread that FXCM has acquired (ie bought out) the European (UK based if I’m not mistaken) forex brokerage [...]

Greetings forex autotraders. I’ve got news from ZuluTrade that they’ve added the popular Swiss ECN forex broker, Dukascopy, to their supported brokers list. I for one believe this is excellent news indeed. The spread alone justifies zulutrading through Dukascopy. If you’re using a signal provider that uses scalping strategies then you most definitely want to [...]

Hello fellow traders. Did you guys hear about the CFTC’s proposed leverage changes? First the NFA FIFO regulations, then the lowering of max leverage to the existing 100:1 limit, now this!? What’s next? No leverage at all?
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on January 13, 2010 that it is seeking public comment on [...]

WTF MB Trading?! What is wrong with your MT4 demo price feed/server?! Check this out folks:
1662449 2009.12.31 15:37 buy 2.70 gbpchf 1.67306 1.65760 1.67910 2009.12.31 17:10 1.00000 -2.57 0.00 0.73 -17 574.73
1662455 2009.12.31 15:00 sell 4.90 usdcad 1.04740 1.06260 1.04330 2009.12.31 17:10 1.05365 -2.89 0.00 -1.70 -290.66
1662460 2009.12.31 16:03 sell 3.00 eurgbp 0.88632 0.90140 0.88150 2009.12.31 17:10 0.89023 -2.53 0.00 -2.03 -189.82
1662480 2009.12.31 16:43 buy 4.10 usdchf 1.03516 1.01890 1.04020 2009.12.31 17:10 1.00067 -2.41 0.00 -1.59 -1 413.14
1662483 2009.12.31 16:35 sell 3.00 eurchf 1.48330 1.49840 1.47770 2009.12.31 17:12 1.00000 -2.53 0.00 -3.10 13 981.95
Notice something unusual?
This is taken from my demo FapTurbo account. I thought it a good idea to continue my long term test of FapTurbo with a ECN [...]

Looks like FXDD is on a press release roll here. First they announced their NFA membership approval, and now they announce plans to open operations in the EU zone. What can I say, good on them! I see there is mention of higher leverage levels. Make of it what you will, here is the press [...]