The 11th China Guangzhou International Investment and Finance Expo is scheduled for September 27-29, 2013 at China Import and Export Fair (Pazhou) Complex, located in Guangzhou, China.

The investment conference is slated to be one of the region’s premier investing conferences of the year, and will focus on a range of investment topics including Forex, binary options, gold market analysis, wealth management, investing technology and more.
Organized by a distinguished team including the China Investment Association, Guangzhou Foro Exhibition Co.,ltd, and Hong Kong Foro International Exhibition Group, the expo will serve both investors and financial institutions looking to expand their knowledge and make contacts in their own field of investing and with investors from related industries.

As China gradually opens up to forex, more and more forex brokers are eyeing this huge continent. China’s forex potential is massive and is far from being exploited. The Expo will be great help for forex brokers ‘expansion into Chinese markets. Forex brokers who have exhibited at the China International Investment and Finance Expo have included ForexCT, IronFx, Easy-Forex, Saxo Capital Markets, MIG Bank, Exness, FBS, Fxprimus, AFBFX, Dukascopy, XEMarkets, GKFX, Gain Capital, etc. Many of the same brokers, as well as some newcomers, are expected to attend the September event.

Please contact the event organizer, for more information:
Contact person: Liye
Mobile: +8613828405270
E-mail: lmyforo@2foro.com, lmyforo@163.com
Skype: liyeforoexhibition
Website: www.2foro.com

The following is a guest report from the team at Forextraders.com discussing recent credit card bans by the NFA and what this means for retail forex.

On January 18, 2013 the National Futures Association (“NFA”) issued a “Request for Comments” letter in which the group proposed a ban on the forex brokerage practice of offering “retail forex customers the opportunity to fund their accounts directly using a credit card or indirectly using a credit card via an alternative funding mechanism (e.g., PayPal).” They go on to state that they are “concerned that retail customers may be opening accounts with funds that are not risk capital and are using credit cards as a source for borrowing funds to invest.”

No expiration demo accounts are traders' most preferred accounts, since they save time and efforts when it comes to strategy testing over a long period of time.

Some Forex brokers will offer a demo account that will expire within 30 days no matter what. Some will keep your account alive as long as there is trading activity in place (although a simple pause of a few weeks might result in expiration).

The best option is to have a Forex demo account that never expires!
But Forex brokers like to keep their client databases clean & filled only with active users. We can't blame them either.

Forex Brokers Accepting Liberty Reserve deposits/withdrawals

Liberty Reserve is a popular online payment system.
It's an instant payment system that allows you to send money anywhere in a matter of few minutes. It supports USD, EUR and gold.
Liberty Reserve has zero monthly fees, and there is zero fees for transfers. A receiving party pays 1% (maximum $2.99 USD or EUR) upon the payment receipt.

If you don't have a Liberty Reserve account, you can always get one at Liberty Reserve official website.

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XEMarkets Hosts Forex Seminar at the London School of Economics

On 15 June 2013, XEMarkets, Cyprus-based global broker, will be hosting their first forex seminar at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Due to be held at the London university premises, the seminar has much to offer to all those interested in quality forex education. First of all, it will be presented by internationally certified Instructor and Portfolio Manager Avramis Despotis, already known among traders worldwide for his expertise and highly educational seminar curricula. The topic to be presented is “Learn to Earn Intraday Trading” and elaborated by Mr. Despotis with special regard to the technical analysis techniques that work out best for intraday online investors.
The upcoming event can be attributed great significance for several reasons, first of all because it is the continuation of the long-term cooperation of XEMarkets with the London university, started through an innovative joint project in the form of the £8500 LSE Forex Demo Competition. This was also the first decisive step of XEMarkets, a broker committed to social responsibility, to becoming the official career patron of the London School of Economics.

RobustFX “AIM HIGHER” Promotion Offer

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Go for Gold with Hantec’s Facebook Competition

Hantec Markets is giving aspiring traders the opportunity to get ahead of the game with a great giveaway. Those who enter the Hantec Facebook competition will stand the chance to win a live forex trading account with a value of 500 US dollars.

How to Enter
This online competition is easy to enter – participants are simply required to Like the Hantec Facebook page (if they haven’t already) and answer this question:

Where will the price of Gold be at 16:30 GMT on Friday 17th May 2013?

Each contestant is allowed to make two predictions – one by Liking the page and another by sharing the post. The prize will go to the correct or closest prediction. The competition is open to everyone, and entrants are not required to have a Hantec account.

Time is Limited
The competition will close at 15:00 GMT on Friday 17th May 2013, and the first entrant to guess the correct or closest answer will be rewarded with a live account from this world-renowned broker. With such a golden opportunity up for grabs, don’t hesitate to post your predictions online and yours might be the one with the Midas touch. Terms and conditions apply.

What is DMA?

DMA - Direct Market Access - is a type of FX execution where traders are offered direct access to the physical market, enabling them to place trading orders with liquidity providers (leading foreign exchange banks, other brokers, market makers etc).

Sounds similar to STP and ECN dealing? It's close, but there is a difference.

DMA (Direct Market Access) is offered by ECN brokers and by some STP brokers.
In fact, ECN brokers always offer DMA, but not all STP brokers offer DMA. Let's take a look at the differences.

January 18, 2011

An exclusive interview with Renat Fatkhullin, Founder and CEO of MetaQuotes Software Corp. for 100Forexbrokers.com

The goal of this interview is to address the most frequently asked questions that concern MetaTrader users nowadays.

Question 1: There are 3 distinguished groups among MetaTrader platform users: Forex brokers, traders with programming skills and ordinary traders. With the announcement and later the release of MT5 platform, the reaction from the ordinary traders group was the most vivid [mixed expectations, criticism etc]. What in your opinion has provoked such reaction among traders?

What is an IB?

An Introducing broker (IB) is a simplest form of partnership between an individual (or a business company) and a Primary broker. The role of the Introducing broker is to solicit clients for the Primary Broker. By doing so an IB earns commission.

- NFA Glossary:
"Introducing Broker (IB) A firm or individual that solicits and accepts futures orders from customers but does not accept money, securities or property from the customer. An IB must be registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and must carry all of its accounts through a futures commission merchant on a fully disclosed basis."

The process of referring clients to the Primary Broker can be done in a variety of ways, but the key component of a successful IB
business is to have the means, contacts and influence on the trading audience. Who can become a successful IB:

Like any financial market, Forex currency trading requires proper regulation. Every country has own governmental financial institutions & independent regulators that supervise and control the Forex industry and work to protect its investors.

Not all Forex brokers nowadays are regulated by appropriate financial regulators in their countries. It's important to pay attention to your broker's regulatory status, as it'll determine the level of security and protection of your investment.