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FXCM is a leading provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, spread betting and related services. Founded in 1999, the company's mission is to provide global traders with access to the world's largest and most liquid market by offering innovative trading tools, hiring excellent trading educators, meeting strict financial standards and striving for the best online trading experience in the market.

Q&A: Trading Cryptos as CFDs

October 12, 2020 | City Talk

What are the different options when trading cryptocurrencies? There are a couple of different options for trading cryptos. You can buy the physical cryptocurrency with a provider that usually gives you an online wallet which you must learn to use to store your crypto. More recently trading platforms have emerged, but these remain unregulated in [...]
ETFs are out of focus for most traders

October 9, 2020 | City Talk

Investors, avert your eyes. This is for the traders amongst us. For years, if you wanted to trade an opinion on a particular industry, sector, or geography, your vehicle of choice was exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. They are transparent, relatively cheap, and allow high-level opinions to be traded in a single product. But, they’re not [...]
Spotting the right opportunity, at the right time

October 1, 2020 | City Talk

For an active trader, volatility always represents opportunity. As the most traded commodity in the world, this is especially the case for traders in the oil markets. Oil has traditionally been viewed as a relatively safe bet. While there are countless examples of a stock price dropping greater than 50 per cent in an instant [...]
Retail trading – don’t become a one-trick pony

September 28, 2020 | City Talk

The markets around the world have recently been a hive of activity and volatility. When this occurs, it presents a multitude of potential trading opportunities. This has given birth to a new breed of traders accessing their platforms. The average trader nowadays does not want to be confined to a single asset class or product; [...]
2020: The year to start trading volatility

September 24, 2020 | City Talk

Newton’s third law dictates that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It is a law whose logic can be seen in movements of the market. Political shocks and scandals, natural disasters and pandemics, and now even incendiary tweets, can set off jitters and tremors across all markets. Before this summer, the [...]
FXCM stock baskets offer cream of the crop industry stocks

September 16, 2020 | City Talk

It’s been months now of lockdown, and with the majority of the world spending more time working from home with CNN, BBC and Bloomberg playing on the TV in the background, it is no surprise there has been a surge in new day traders looking to take advantage of the current market volatility by beginning [...]
Is crypto trading making you overweight? Use a basket

September 16, 2020 | City Talk

Cryptocurrencies haven’t disappeared like some thought they would. If anything, its appeal as an asset class continues to grow. Customer interest in cryptocurrencies has spiked during all the volatility surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay. So, you want in… but where to begin? There are two questions one needs to answer: how [...]
Commission-free stock trading marks a new era for retail traders

September 16, 2020 | City Talk

Modern technology has made retail trading accessible to all – literally at the tip of our fingertips – but it wasn’t always this easy. It’s fair to say that the technology underpinning online retail trading has come a long way since the days of pagers and dial-up modems (look it up, kids…). As we enter [...]
Q&A with Brendan Callan

September 16, 2020 | City Talk

How and why has the company changed since it was founded? We’ve come a long way since our inception in 1999. Back then, the widespread adoption of the internet started a new revolution in online trading and traditional barriers to entry for traders disappeared and costs fell substantially. During the 2000s, we focused heavily on [...]
In 2020, How Can Anyone Afford to *Trade* Amazon’s Stock?

September 16, 2020 | City Talk

In July 2020, Amazon’s stock was over $3,000 per share. With disposable income at a premium in 2020, how can anyone actively trade this stock? For most retail traders it is just too much money locked up on a daily basis. You could find a broker who allows you to trade a full share with [...]

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