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Simplifying things but protecting the user

In an effort to make the user experience eastouching-mobile-phoneier and faster, all websites and apps are continuously simplifying things: less confirmations, less data to give, less steps and buttons to click to activate an option, subscribe to a newsletter or join an online meeting. FXStreet is of course following this trend – and is working hard to implement these principles even more with our 3.0 version to be released next year – to be in tune with the needs of the users.

But we believe there are borders not to be crossed. You can not drive the users to make, in just one click, irreversible and massive actions by mistake or ignoring all the consequences. That’s what happened to our COO and Partner, Setxi Fernandez last night on LinkedIn app. Here is the story, that he published in a post on LinkedIn this morning. Continue reading Simplifying things but protecting the user

Live Video: our TV channel schedule

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We have been adding new programs to our recently launched Live Video channel and we wanted to share the schedule of our regular shows with you!

 

Live Video Schedule

Daily Shows

  • 8:00 – 9:00 GMT (4:00 –5:00 EST) Live Europe Market Open: Trade and Follow European opening bell with Yohay Elam and ForexCrunch

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New homepages layout: more content, more visuals

New FXStreet homepage on screenHave you noticed? Bigger images, less text, more content. These three concepts could summarize the recent reform of FXStreet’s homepages layout.

Driven by the desire to have a visually more contemporary website and to increase the quantity of displayed content without damaging readibility, our team decided to rethink and rebuild the layout of our homepages.

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Empowering our Social Media channels

Social MediaFXStreet has always been very active on social media channels. And their quality has been recognized by the most influent, including Bloomberg that ranks FXStreet top worldwide among Twitter Inc. users of currency-market analysis.

We gain large amount of new followers, subscribers and fans every day, but we still have room to do better and offer more to the Forex traders connected to social networks.

Here are our novelties in the field:

 

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Twitter: @FXStreetNews Still #1 for Bloomberg

Still number 1. A bit more than a year ago, an article was published on Bloomberg stating that FXStreet News was ranked top worldwide among Twitter Inc. users of currency-market analysis. And this morning, we wanted to check if it was still the case. And to our great pleasure, it still is. And we are proud. Here is the proof, a screenshot from Bloomberg terminals.

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Follow FXStreetNews on Twitter

Thumbs up to our News Team!

 

Trader of the Year 2015 – Last call

Trader of the YearIn a few days, on October 11th, FXStreet’s Trader of the Year contest will start. You are still on time to enroll!

Trade currencies on a Demo account during one month and the five best performers (highest Account Equity) at the end of the competition period win various prizes (total value of prizes: $18.000 ), including a $5,000 live trading account with Hantec Markets, the sponsor of the contest.

Register for the contest, trade on a Hantec Markets demo account, get the best trading results and reach the glory! Continue reading Trader of the Year 2015 – Last call

FXStreet receives Microsoft Partner Network’s certification

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Javier Hertfelder and Josep Casas from FXStreet’s IT Team

As a technology company FXStreet must ensure that the best technologies are used in the services that we provide. From day 1, FXStreet chose Microsoft as a key Partner to provide the technology that we needed.

This summer, Microsoft selected a series of companies that have been using their latest technologies to offer a certification that guarantees the quality in their productions. Through a series of exams Microsoft studies and rewards the company that passes them with different advantages over they products, courses and software that is normally licensed. Continue reading FXStreet receives Microsoft Partner Network’s certification

Richard Olsen and Yohay Elam to speak at FXStreet

In the coming days, we will welcome two important and close collaborators of FXStreet… one, Richard Olsen, in the virtual world (Live Video on Youtube) and the other, Yohay Elam, in the real world (speech in Barcelona).

Richard Olsen – Thursday October 1st – Live Analysis Room

In our Live Analysis Room, Dale Pinkert will interview Richard Olsen, an economic researcher in high frequency finance known as the co-founder and former Chairman of OANDA. He will discuss the blockchain technolog (the distributive ledger technology that underpins Bitcoins), a word that has been in everyone’s mouth in the financial services firms these last months. Does it have the potential to disrupt the industry and affect how Forex traders operate? We’ll hear Richard’s thoughts. We will also talk about his general vision of the future and his new company Lykke whose ambitious project is to create a global FX marketplace, where “traders will be able to trade at ultra-low cost and will not be captive to any one broker. They will be able to transfer their assets at any time”, as he explained to Leaprate in a recent interview. Continue reading Richard Olsen and Yohay Elam to speak at FXStreet

FXStreet launches Algo Rythms, a currencies signal-based news feed

Algo Rythms produces immediate and actionable Forex signals based on 100 intricate scenarios for over 30 currencies.

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Live Video: Mauricio Carrillo about FXStreet’s new TV Channel

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We’re excited to announce you the launch of Live Video, FXStreet’s new online TV channel. This exciting project will grow little by little, but already started a few days ago. We thought that the best person to explain you all about it is its manager, Mauricio Carrillo. Here is what you can expect.

Mauricio Carrillo FXstreetFirst of, in a few words, what is FXStreet’s Live Video? What will the user find on this new channel?

FXStreet Live Video is a dream. Our target is to become the first 100% Forex online TV channel and community in the industry. It will mix live and recorded content. The channel will be highly social with lots of ideas and strategies shared by members and users and commented by experts around the clock. They will improve each other in community.

What type of programs will you air?

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