Interviews with brokers and traders
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- Hello. Introduce yourself, please. How did you come to be introduced to trading on ? Hello to you too. My name is Alexander Grichenkov, and I work at MFX Broker. If we talk about how I got into , my acquaintance with it started with a totally different company. There is an amazing show on Channel 1 TV called "What? Where? When? Well, a few years ago Forex Club Company was either a sponsor or an advertiser. The experts and the audience were asked to guess the rise or fall of this or that currency over the week. That's where the guessing came in.
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The law on Russia, adopted in December 2014, was supposed to come into force as early as October 1 this year, but due to circumstances, in particular the unreadiness of most Russian brokers to be regulated, the mega-regulator Central Bank of the Russian Federation postponed the entry into force of the law until January 1, 2016. FORTRADER editors discussed with Stanislav Vaneev, CEO of Grand Capital, which companies were allowed to work for another three months "the old way", how brokers are preparing for the regulation and what will change after the new year. - Stanislav, hello. Has your company received a license yet? - Hello, Yulia. In mid-September the regulator positively responded to the request of the CRFINA (Center for regulation of OTC financial...
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More and more often brokers talk about the technical component of their order execution, in which liquidity aggregators play an important role. What are they, what are their differences, and is it possible to set them up for slippage in favor of the broker, tells ForTrader.org magazine Quotix CEO Evgeny Sorokin. - What is a liquidity aggregator and what are its main functions? - Liquidity aggregators are the systems that integrate quotes from different sources into a single torrent and route the orders to liquidity providers. Brokers use aggregators to narrow the spread, get the best possible order execution and diversify risks associated with liquidity providers. Aggregators have many nuances of implementation, such as: Availability and...
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In the middle of 2015 Saxo Bank announced the release of a new modern trading platform, written by its own technical experts, as well as the rejection of the usual MetaTrader 4. In the press release the company presented SaxoTraderGO as the newest and most convenient platform, which will be a serious competitor to all modern analogues. The editorial office of ForTrader.org contacted the representatives of Saxo Bank to find out whether SaxoTraderGO is as good as it was described in the release. The answers to our questions were given by Christian Hammer, Head of Platforms and CEO of Saxo Bank. - Why has Saxo Bank decided to develop their own platform and refused to use MetaTrader 4? - We created and launched SaxoTraderGO - the most advanced trading platform...
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At the beginning of 2006, traders in Russia and the CIS imagined the operation of the foreign exchange market in a completely different way than it is now. All of the 10 Russian-speaking brokers available to us offered approximately the same trading conditions, which included 1:100 leverage, quotes, terminal, analytics, training course, and 4 points of EURUSD spread. Traders chose the company according to a friend's advice or depositing/withdrawing method, sometimes just at random, and it did not make much difference. After that "easy" appeared with the company bearing the same name, which surprised everyone with an opportunity to trade with a leverage of 1 to many. And after that there was a real boom of ideas, innovations, suggestions from brokers, including floating spreads, which became a reality.
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Today ForTrader.org magazine has Evgeny Filippov, the Managing Director of STForex, a new broker in the Russian market, a popular Forex analyst and a presenter of educational webinars. We will discuss with Evgeny our traditional questions and learn a little more about him. - Hello Yevgeny. Could you tell our readers how did you come to be acquainted with exchange trading? - Frankly speaking, my acquaintance with financial markets happened quite by accident. 8 years ago one of my acquaintances mentioned that he traded on the currency market, he showed me some charts, and that's how it all started...
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Today Sudhanshu Agarwal, CEO of a new company on the Russian market, Tickmill, is a guest of the ForTrader.org editorial staff. We will ask him our traditional questions and find out what the broker plans to surprise traders with. - How did it happen that you got acquainted with stock trading? - About 10 years ago I was offered a job with a reputable broker, who had recently started his trading activity in Australia. At first I was wary of the offer, as I had heard a lot about illegal brokerage firms and fraudulent brokers. Having thoroughly studied all available information on the subject, I came to the conclusion that RELIABLE regulated brokers exist,...
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Today Oleg Okhrimets, General Director of EXNESS, is another guest of the ForTrader.org magazine. This time we invited him to discuss the choice of a trader to choose a broker, based on the licenses obtained by the company. We will talk about the importance of the regulation, its advantages and disadvantages. Let's also touch upon an important topic: the forthcoming Russian regulation of brokers. - Oleg, you were a participant in the recent Congress held in Moscow. What kind of impressions did it leave and was it worth your expectations? - The Congress, organized by SRO CFRIN, was held for the second time, it is gradually gaining credibility and becoming a key forum for the Russian market. The congress was attended by the largest representatives of the market...
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The State Duma of the Russian Federation passed in the third reading the draft federal law "On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation". The Federal Law "On the Securities Market" was supplemented by Article 4.1 "Dealer Activity on the OTC Market", which defines the activities of brokers, introduces licensing requirements and specifies that the normative regulation will be carried out by a self-regulating organization of dealers (SRO). The law establishes a single SRO - "The Center for Regulation of OTC Financial Instruments and Technologies". The details of this law and the changes it will bring to the activity of brokers in Russia were specially commented for ForTrader.org by the Director General of EXNESS Company Oleg Ivanovich Ohrimets. ForTrader.org: After a long wait, Russian traders...
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Today Stanislav Vaneev, President of Grand Capital, is our guest at ForTrader.org. We would like to discuss with him the subtleties of modern trading: the nuances of bonus offers, new services and tools, the status and success of the trader today. There will not be many questions, but they should reveal the portrait of the modern speculator and his expectations from trading. ForTrader.org: The offers from -brokers are constantly updated - we see the appearance of new tools for analysis, new assets for trading, increasing bonuses. In your opinion, what are the things that really attract a trader now? What conditions should the company offer to be interesting to a trader? Stanislav Vaneev: I would divide the question into shares/bonuses and new products/tools. The Russian market now, as I see it.
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Today ForTrader.org magazine has Mikhail Boldin, Director of Development in Russia and CIS of the international brokerage company Fort Financial Services. We will ask him our traditional questions in the hope of getting unconventional and useful advice for our readers who are into trading. ForTrader.org: Hello, Michael. Tell us a little bit about yourself. How did it happen that you got acquainted with stock trading? - My name is Mikhail Boldin. I am 43 years old and I entered the stock trading market in the late '90s at the age of approximately 29. At that time I was working as a currency dealer at the representative office of an Austrian bank in Russia. After a while, I was offered a job...
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EXNESS representatives told about their plans for 2015, the prospects of market development in Russia after the introduction of regulation and the prospects of the ruble exchange rate at a press breakfast held on 18 September in Moscow. EXNESS is actively increasing its presence in the domestic market and plans to open an office in Moscow by the beginning of 2015, which will increase the share of Russian clients in the company's portfolio to 15%. "Based on the data on the volume of brokers in the Russian Federation published by Interfax agency in 2013, we believe that EXNESS is among the top 10 brokers in the Russian market . And now, at least, we want to be in the top five. We plan that after obtaining a license ...
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In just two years, binary options have become extremely popular among traders, displacing even instruments . What are binary options and what is the secret of their popularity, we decided to ask one of the brokers, the company GrandCapital, which was the first company that implemented binary options in the terminal Metatrader 4. GrandCapital's Technical Support Manager Andrey Vinogradov agreed to answer ForTrader.org's questions. - Andrey, what is the difference between binary options and om? It is not clear to everybody. What are the pros and cons? - The most important advantage of trading on binary options is the limitation of losses and fixed profit. Unlike the market, where the profit or loss depends directly on...
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Victor Masalov, Executive Director of EXNESS, is our guest at ForTrader.org. Today we would like to discuss the issue of trading volume at -brokers, the publications related to it and the future of such inspections. FT: Many companies provide monthly statistics on the trades of their traders. Should you trust such data? Is it possible to check the reliability of such publications? VM: In fact it is impossible to verify such data. In some cases companies are obliged to publish information about their activities, for example, if their shares are traded on a stock exchange. All the rest publish unsupported reports on their activity and the question of trust in such publications is a question of trust in the broker. FT: You are the first company that...
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Сегодня в гостях у журнала ForTrader.org Генеральный директор компании EXNESS Олег Охримец. Будем рады задать ему несколько вопросов. – Здравствуйте, Олег. Расскажите нашим читателям немного о себе, пожалуйста. Каков был Ваш путь в компанию EXNESS и на рынки вообще? – Добрый день, Юлия. Первый опыт работы на фондовых и финансовых рынках, как и многие в России, я получил в середине 90-х годов на первой волне приватизации. С валютными контрактами познакомился, проходя обучение по Ценным бумагам при «Сибирской межбанковской валютной бирже» для получения лицензии брокера. Одним из учебных курсов была торговля валютными контрактами на разницу. В дальнейшем эти знания пригодились в…
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