Laith Marmarchi and Nicole Elliott, FXStreet’s Forex Person of the year 2013

ForexTrading.TV’s founder and Chief Technical Strategist, Laith Marmarchi and Nicole Elliott, won the title of the FX Person of the Year 2013 given by FXStreet.


Barcelona,  March 17 2014 – Laith Marmarchi and Nicole Elliott have been named “Forex Person of the Year 2013” by FXStreet, the independent Forex information website, for their service “ForexTrading.TV”. ForexTradingTV offers a real-time, technical and educational service: both new and experienced traders can go to get a clutter free view on the markets without the over analysis and noise of today’s trading environment.

FXStreet decided to give Laith Marmarchi and Nicole Elliott the title because they were able to convert their small startup business into a trusted service and collaborative platform of very high value and quality and managed to gain the trust of both traders and brokers, in only one year.

“We are honoured to win this in our first year and we are so happy to help as many people as we can.” said Laith Marmarchi, the founder of ForexTrading.TV. “Trading is a difficult and lonely career and we hope our quick and simple real-time analysis delivery method removes your workload and helps you learn to trade successfully.”

All ForexTrading.TV content is pushed instantly to the traders mobile apps and produced by a growing team of analysts around the world specializing in different types of technical analysis. Their new dealer insight service reveals bank FX flows, institutional orders, central bank flows, stops and dealer sentiment. Retail traders have never had access to this type of info before and this is in addition to their existing political and economic headlines, giving day traders an instantly actionable edge. The objective is to keep traders abreast of market movements and news flow as well as remove workload by watching charts on their behalf and delivering technical setups in real-time.

ForexTradingTV was launched one year ago, has produced over 5,000 videos, had 750,000 page views, built 3 white label platforms for brokers and 4 mobile apps, including 2 white label apps for brokers, and have a growing number of repeat followers from over 60 countries around the world every day.

FXStreet’s annual Forex Person of the Year title pays tribute to a person or a team of people behind a product or service that positively contributed to make the Forex world better, more respected and more transparent during the previous year. The focus is innovation, transparency and quality.

Before announcing the Forex Person of The Year 2012, FXStreet made public two finalist names for the title. The other candidate selected by the Forex website’s team was:

Karin Zalcberg – Founder of  Karinza

Karinza was established in 2010 by Karin Zalcberg, who has 8 years of building and consulting for call centres, helping to boost sales. Karin’s vast sales experience and knowledge in this sector has given her a top notch name in the industry. Karin has served as VP of Sales for eToro and xForex prior to starting Karinza LTD. Since 2009 Karinza has served over 50 brokers in the FX and Binary Option industry.

Karinza’s business grew by 28% in 2013 and recruited an additional 12 brokers to their respective client list. Ms. Zalcberg is a passionate leader whose energy is able to inspire an entire room, which is evident in the trainings Ms. Zalcberg conducts. Her passion to create transparency and challenge brokers to provide value for their clients is first class and her desire to create a better, safer market for traders is shown in her teaching based on needs based selling for all brokers. Karinza’s main goal is to help brokers to increase transparency with the traders and assist and educate their sales teams to provide the best and most relevant information, and serving the clients best interest while maintaining brand integrity.

Karinza’s main achievement in 2013 was their breakthrough to the Asian and North American market and the broker’s growth into those promising markets going into 2014. Another major achievement for 2013 was the launch of their world class sales manager training for brokers helping build tomorrow leaders within the brokers themselves.

Notes to Editors

FXStreet was founded in January 2000. As its distinctive trademark, the website has always been proud of its unyielding commitment to provide objective and unbiased information and to enable its users to take better and more confident decisions. On the website, the real-time quotes, news, newsletters and interactive chats with experts from all over the world are among the most well-received contents. FXStreet has managed to gain the collaboration of the entire Forex industry,
from professional individuals and small companies right up to Forex Brokers and Investment Banks. Besides the main website in English, the website is available in 16 other languages (Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Indonesian, Turkish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Korean and Catalan).
In 2013, these FXStreet sites reached 102,060, 757 pageviews. The English website garnered the most important part of the traffic with 84,990,581 pageviews and 5,179,267 absolute unique visitors.
FXStreet was short listed as “Best e-FX initiative of the year (vendor)” for the FX Week e-FX Awards 2010 and won TraderPlanet’s STAR Awards 2013 for its Economic Calendar.

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Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/fxstreetcom
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