Interviews with brokers and traders
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Oleg Shmunis, CEO of InstaTrade Investment Company (Kaliningrad). 44 years old, has two higher educations: economic and technical. Worked in the banking system for 18 years in various executive positions. For more than three years, he supervised the activities of professional participants in the organized securities market. In January 2006 he was certified by the FSFM of Russia as an expert having the right to carry out broker, dealer activities, securities management, depositary activity. Professional experience: financial consulting, organization management, information technologies, internal control systems. Married, three children. Hobbies: bowling, photography, fishing. Yulia Apel: Our traditional first question for the editorial guests: How did you first get into the stock exchanges and why did you decide...
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Dmitry Stepanov, in 2008 graduated with honors, in the same year went to work in a brokerage company as an analyst of the Russian securities market, since 2009 began offering recommendations on the commodity market and the market to clients in an accessible version. In the markets and the stock market since 2003-2004, when the market structure was just being formed. Interested in: analysis and evaluation of business, macro-processes, collecting coins and stamps, the markets. J.A.: If it is not a secret, Dmitry, on what specialty did you graduate? D.S.: There are no secrets. I graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Service and Economics, specializing in economics and management at service enterprises. J.A.: Now, when the attractiveness of trade...
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This time the editorial team of ForTrader.org magazine will host Bogdan Zvarich, a well-known stock exchange analyst of NETTRADER.ru and a practicing trader with an interesting view of the market. Our readers should be familiar with his daily analytical notes in the news column of the magazine's website. Autobiography Born in 1979. In 2003 he graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University), department of microelectronics, majoring in electronics and automation of physical units, microprocessor technology. I took my first steps on the stock market in 2001. In 2005, he started working for the company UTrade.ru as a technical analyst, and then he moved to an independent research portal. Since May 2009 is an analyst of the company NETTRADER.ru....
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Today our guest is a legend of domestic trading, a famous analyst, a teacher and for some people almost a market guru - Vladislav Gurov. Vladislav has been on the foreign exchange market since 1991. In the period 1996-1999 he was a manager and a consultant of the largest commercial companies and banks. Cooperated with such banks as Moscow National Bank, Private Bank, Vnesheconombank, ABN Amro, Smit Barny, Soverign Forex Ltd. Since 2001 he has been the author of articles on the analysis and forecasting of financial market trends. - Hello, Vladislav. I would like to start the interview with a traditional question: how did your exchange activity begin? - I did not start on the stock exchange, and therefore the definition of "stock-exchange activity" is not...
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The fact that MetaQuotes is planning to release its new brainchild - MetaTrader 5 trading terminal - in the near future is known only to a lazy person or a beginner who has been working in the market for no more than a month. The whole world discussed the news on forums, had open and closed debates, and waited with interest for the MT5 release. And finally we waited... We couldn't miss this important topic for the community of traders, so we addressed our questions to the leading MetaTrader 5 platform developer Alexander Saidullin. - Hello Alexander. First thing we'd like to know is, how did MetaQuotes Company started? - Dr. Saidullin: Hello. We started it.
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Good afternoon, dear friends, today we have a guest of the Fortrader.org editorial team, Dmitry Gurkovsky, a market expert of RoboForex, who is already well-liked by everyone. In a pleasant atmosphere we plan to discuss traders' interest in bitcoin today, as well as the prospects of the cryptocurrency tomorrow. - Good afternoon, Dmitry. Bitcoin today has become an integral part of the market, and every broker's arsenal contains at least a basic set of cryptocurrencies. Why do you think digital currencies became so popular so quickly? - Hello Yulia. The main "postulate" of cryptocurrency "religion" is freedom. From regulation, supervision, the need to act in someone else's interests. This is both "plus" and "minus" of the digital asset market, but so far investors are coming here precisely...
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Today Fortrader magazine has Alexander Borodich, the founder of the blockchain platform Universa. We will discuss with Alexander the prospects of blockchain technology in the country and the world. - Hello, Alexander. How did it happen that you developed a platform on the blockchain? Why are you interested in this topic? AB: When I was a venture capitalist, several of my projects started to grow by more than a thousand percent annually, which is completely atypical for such projects. One thing they had in common was that they were all in what is now called blockchain. I realized that blockchain is a new technological wave that will significantly change almost all of the processes to which...
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Today the guest of Fortrader.org magazine is Roman Bykov, a representative of Sibcoin Foundation *, which is engaged in popularization, development and communication for the cryptocurrency Sibcoin. As you can easily guess, we will talk about the cryptocurrency market, its popularity and challenges, the potential and investments in digital currencies. FT: Hello Roman. The most pressing question today is probably what will happen to the bitcoin price in the near future? BR: Good day to all readers of the magazine! No one knows the exact forecast, but one thing is obvious: bitcoin rate is still in a strong bearish trend. 6 thousand dollars. - An important level, and in case it is broken through, we can expect further decline to new...
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Today Sergey Bulygin, vice president of Arum Capital, is a guest of the editorial board of Fortrader magazine. We will talk about trading opportunities and the right choice for beginners. - Hello. Please introduce yourself. How did it happen that you got acquainted with trading on financial markets? - Hello. It happened so that since 2000 I have been working in different financial organizations. All this time my work was mainly related to managing clients' assets and creating various investment products. While earning for others, it is strange not to start managing your own money. - Trading is becoming more and more a part of our lives - many people know about the foreign exchange market, binary options, cryptocurrencies or are...
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Today Dmitry Gurkovsky - analyst at RoboForex, private trader, lecturer and host of training courses for novice traders - is a guest of Fortrader magazine. We will talk about trading currencies, cryptocurrencies and other assets in Russia. - Hello Dmitry. How did it happen that you got acquainted with trading on financial markets? - Greetings! My acquaintance with financial markets and trading has been, on the one hand, by accident, but on the other hand, quite natural. But I didn't understand it at once, of course. In my childhood and adolescence I watched movies like "Wall Street" and "Trading Places", read Dreiser's "The Financier", etc. It's true that I didn't immediately understand the main messages of these works either, but what impressed me was...
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Today, Vladimir Kondrashov, one of the founders of the ICE GROUP, a group of companies operating on the financial markets, is a guest of the editorial board of Fortrader magazine. Fortrader: Hello, Vladimir, how did you come to be acquainted with trading on financial markets? - Vladimir: Hello. I should say that I am not and have never tried myself as a trader. I prefer to deal with investments, asset management and portfolio management, as well as do my own research in these fields. I understand and actively implement them in the services of our company. I began my career as a client of one of the -brokers, which later, unfortunately, turned out to be a well-disguised pyramid scheme and went bankrupt. But while I was a client, then...
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Approval of the key basic standard by the Bank of Russia is a landmark event for the whole market. In particular, today we can already declare that the -dealers will soon start their activity on the territory of Russian Federation in accordance with the current legislation, because the approval of the mentioned standard was the only missing condition for this. In the nearest future all companies that received licenses from Bank of Russia will apply to the Association of -dealers for registration of their frame contracts, after that they will be able to accept their first clients. dealers willingly support all state initiatives, aimed at regulation and creation of civilized market of financial services in Russian Federation. Including Teletrade Group, with whose executive director we will talk about the future...
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Social trading has recently become increasingly popular on financial markets. Pavel Salas, Regional Director of eToro in Russia and the CIS, will talk about how to conduct transactions in an investment social network and make a profit in the process. - Pavel, hello. Tell us a little bit about yourself. How did you come to know about trading on financial markets? - Hello Yulia. It all started in 2007 when a friend of mine got a job at IFC Markets in customer support. He told me about Forex market. I got interested. At first I traded on demo-account, then I opened a real account, but soon I realized that I lacked...
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Today the director of Grand Capital, a company that recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, is our guest at the editorial board of the magazine. Let's talk to Stanislav Vaneev about what has changed over these years in the company and on the market in general. - Hello, Stanislav. This year Grand Capital is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Tell us how it all started for you? How did you get acquainted with the Forex market? - Everything started in my student years when I lived in St.Petersburg and studied at the University of Architecture and Construction. Of course, I did not have enough money, so I had to find additional ways to earn money and that is how I came into contact with currency speculation. Since then I have been working with currency and helping others make money...
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Today the guest of the FORTRADER.org editorial team is Sergey Melnikov, one of the financial analysts of the Russian market. We will discuss with him the traditional questions about currency trading in Russia. - Hello Sergey. Tell our readers, how did it happen that you got acquainted with trading on financial markets? -Good day! I became acquainted with financial markets at the age of 14, when I was given Theodore Dreiser's trilogy "The Financier". Since then I knew exactly what my life was going to be about. - Trading is becoming more and more a part of our life - many people know about the foreign exchange market or are holders of certain securities. In your opinion, why is it popular to...
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Today, Anna Kochkina, Director of Key Projects at Insta, answers FORTRADER.org's questions. We will discuss with Anna the future of the market in Russia and the company's plans for obtaining a license. - How do you see the current state of the market in Russia? Was the introduction of licensing and regulation of this financial segment necessary and why? - Yes, the regulation of the foreign exchange market in Russia was necessary. Before January 1, 2016, any services could be provided under the name "", and this was not checked by the state authorities, because the legislation did not contain a definition of -dealer activity as such. Due to the introduction of licensing, the word "" in its corporate name have the right...
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The April guest of our magazine was Valentina Drofa, CEO of Drofa Group and founder of the iLerney online financial education portal. Valentina is a long-time friend of our publication - we have worked together many times - that is why we addressed to her with the questions about the training, relevant to newcomers and practitioners of the market today. - Valentina, hello! Just a few words about yourself, so that our readers who do not know you well know you better. - Good afternoon, yes, of course. Recently, just when I was telling a couple of words about myself, I said and then I thought - 9 years in financial markets. My whole professional activity...
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Despite the entry into force of the "Law on " in Russia on January 1, 2016, the structure of the work of -dealers in the country is not yet completely transparent not only for traders, but also for companies applying for a license. This includes the SRO or self-regulatory organization, which will have to supervise dealers and report to the Central Bank. ForTrader.org asked Alexey Yevsikov, the Managing Director of the CRFIN SRO Association, what SRO is in Russia, why they are needed and what they will do. - To what extent do you think regulation is really necessary in Russia? - The market appeared in Russia in the early 90's...
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Today FORTRADER.org magazine features Igor Volkov, a practicing trader and part-time owner and president of the MFX brokerage company. In 2006, at the age of 20, he founded Masterforex with his own money earned by trading. In 2008 the company became a part of MFX Group holding, and Igor Volkov is its president now. Our conversation today will continue the theme of regulation in Russia. - Igor, what is your general attitude towards the world practice of market regulation? - The answer is simple: there has to be regulation. What remains to be decided is what it should be. From my point of view, the industry's presence in the legal field is an opportunity for each...
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In our December interview, we asked Yaroslav Dyususha, the Head of the Remote Client Services Department of JSC FINAM, about the regulation in Russia. Let us remind you that FINAM was the first company to submit all the necessary documents to the Bank of Russia to obtain a license. - Was it difficult to prepare the necessary documents to submit to the Central Bank of Russia? What was the most problematic? - We have nothing to compare it with, we have never had to get a Russian broker license before. Any problem can be solved if you approach it systematically, with the right tools. We have recruited a good team of professionals, so we hope that everything is prepared at the proper level. The difficulty was that the requirements for the application appeared as...
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