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Forex Best Awards 2016: Vote is open!

The Forex Best Awards are back for the 6th consecutive year! They will reward the best contributors on FXStreet in 2015.

Nominees

Our team has selected  more than 40 analysts, traders and authors nominated in 7 categories. This list was prepared based on the quality and success of the contributors and their content.

Check the nominee’s full list

Winners

As previous editions, the winners of each category are chosen through popular vote and through the vote of a professional jury. Continue reading Forex Best Awards 2016: Vote is open!

Forex Forecast 2016: What’s to come? – Special Reports

Forex Forecast 2016

What’s to come in 2016 for the currency markets? After the Panel Discussion we organized in December (whose recording you can still watch), our team created different content to help our readers understand what topics and trends should unfold this year. Here you have those special reports. Continue reading Forex Forecast 2016: What’s to come? – Special Reports

Top 10 2015: News, Live Video Shows and Books

top10-News, Live Video Shows and Trading BooksLast post of our Top 10 series about the most famous content and contributors on FXStreet in 2015. Today, we take a look at the pieces of news, live video shows and trading books that received the biggest amount of clicks on our website during the year that just closed.

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Top 10 2015: Educational Articles and Economic Events

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We continue with our Top 10 of 2015, today with the most read Educational Articles (check them out if you haven’t read them!) and most checked events of our Economic Calendar.

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Top 10 2015: Analysis Articles and Webinars

Top 10 2015

A traditional feature that comes back every year: the top 10 of the content that was the most read or watched by FXStreet’s users during the previous year.

There are 7 categories, by type of content: Analysis Articles, Webinars, Economic Calendar Events, Educational Articles, Trading Books, News and Live Video Shows. The ranking is based on total pageviews.

Today, we unveil the Top 10 Analysis articles and Webinars (almost all of them were recorded so you might want to watch them if you haven’t seen them yet). Continue reading Top 10 2015: Analysis Articles and Webinars

Martin Armstrong is the Forex Person of the Year 2015

FX Person of the Year 2015The Forex Person of the year 2015 is economist and financial strategist Martin Armstrong.

Martin Armstrong, once a financial strategist and advisor to over one trillion dollars of asset, developed a computer model based on the number Pi and other cyclical theories to predict economic turning points with eerie accuracy. He is the person behind the “Princeton Economics International” think tank. He is known to have predicted the crash of 1987 to the very day.

The Economic Confidence Model is an economic cycle theory by Martin A. Armstrong. Armstrong proposes that economic waves occur every 8.6 years, or 3141 days, which approximately Pi X 1000. At the end of each cycle is a crisis after which the economic climate improves until the next 8.6 year crisis point. Armstrong’s theory was first applied in 1977, when he used it to successfully predict an upturn in the price of commodities. Continue reading Martin Armstrong is the Forex Person of the Year 2015

Users spent 277 years on FXStreet in 2015

timeAfter reading a feature published by The Upshot called “The Stories That Held You the Longest in 2015” a few days ago, I stopped and wondered: and on FXStreet, where did people spend most time in 2015?

First of, the total time spent by all users on FXStreet is  2,428,640 hours. When you translate this into years, the number makes one’s head spin: 277 years! And that is only the English version of FXStreet (that also exists in 16 other languages, not included here).

If we look into it by type of content, the pages where our users spent most time are: Continue reading Users spent 277 years on FXStreet in 2015

Adam Button and Boris Schlossberg, our other two panelists for the Forex Forecast 2015

After Valeria Bednarik and Ashraf Laidi yesterday, today we present you the other two panelists of our Forex Forecast 2016, Adam Button and Boris Schlossberg. Our event will take place this Friday, December 18th, at 14 GMT / 9 am EST.  REGISTER FOR OUR FREE EVENT!

The ForexLive guy, Adam Button

Adam ButtonAdam Button leads the ForexLive team, as President, Managing Director and Chief Currency Analyst. He was previously the chief currency strategist at XForex and also works with Intermarket Strategy. Adam believes there’s an edge in knowing every tidbit of news. He was formerly the head of the markets team at the Canadian Economic Press and is a graduate of Ryerson University. He lives in Montreal. Continue reading Adam Button and Boris Schlossberg, our other two panelists for the Forex Forecast 2015

Ashraf Laidi and Valeria Bednarik, panelists of the Forex Forecast 2016

Logo Panel_150x100As we announced last week, FXStreet will host a special live event with a powereful panel of four Forex experts to discuss what 2016 might hold for the Forex Traders. That will be this Friday, December 18th, at 14 GMT / 9 am EST. And it’s free of course. GET YOUR SEAT NOW!

Today, we want to tell you a bit more about two of these panelists, Ashraf Laidi and Valeria Bednarik, giving you links and resources you can check to know them and their work better: Continue reading Ashraf Laidi and Valeria Bednarik, panelists of the Forex Forecast 2016

Forex Forecast 2016 – The Panel

 Forex Forecast 2016 The Panel

FXStreet is organizing the ultimate live panel all Forex traders must attend to understand and anticipate what the new year might hold – and it is free!

We have gathered 4 of the most respected, famous and important names of the Forex retail industry and their views and opinions are very much sought after:

  • Valeria Bednarik, Chief Analyst of FXStreet – live from Buenos Aires
  • Adam Button, Currency Analyst and Managing Director of ForexLive – live from Montreal
  • Ashraf Laidi, Head Trader at Intermarket Strategy Ltd and Author – live from London
  • Boris Schlossberg, Managing Director at BK Asset Management – live from New York City

Continue reading Forex Forecast 2016 – The Panel