by Ryan Littlestone | December 19th, 2018, 11:25:35 | News
Watch for changes to swap rates and margins over the Christmas period The extended holiday period over Christmas is the most illiquid time of the year. That can mean the costs of funding currencies can rise. This naturally feeds down the ladder to us retail traders....
by Ryan Littlestone | December 10th, 2018, 12:03:53 | Brexit, News
Margins are already being hiked in some GBP markets Something to watch out for over the next few hours. We’ve been informed that CMC North America has doubled GBP margins to 8% from 4% effective end of day. It’s likely to be the same across all their...
by Ryan Littlestone | May 11th, 2018, 10:49:19 | News, Sticky 3
The crackdown on margins begins Time to keep an eye on the emails from your brokers. ETX Capital has sent one out to customers saying that they will be changing their margin format from 26th May. Citing the new requirements from the ESMA, they will be putting in place...
by Ryan Littlestone | February 6th, 2018, 16:30:06 | News
Issues with websites and platforms have added to the market’s woes There’s another underlying story behind these market moves and that’s widesrpead outages in the webspace, particularly at financial firms and brokers. Brokers like Vanguard and...
by Ryan Littlestone | December 13th, 2017, 12:32:39 | Research
A look at broker spreads around big economic data points As part of ForexFlow’s efforts to help bring as much clarity to traders as possible, I’ve teamed up with my good friends at Tradeproofer.com to bring you some of their broker analysis. These folks...