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Trader of the Year 2013 Contest: 10 days left to register

trader of the year contest-2013-300x74Traders interested in competing for the title of “The Trader of the Year 2013” only have 10 days left to enroll.

The contest will start on June 2nd, 2013 at 09:00 pm GMT and will end June 28th, 2013 at 09:00 pm GMT, when all open positions will be closed and all profit and loss (P&L) will be realized. All contestants will start with USD 5,000 of virtual funds in their trading accounts and with a leverage of 1:100. They are allowed to use all of the features of AFB FX’s MT4 trading platform and use any Expert Advisors (apart from unethical trading). The scores of the top ten performers at any given point in time of The Trader of the Year Contest 2013 will be showing on FXstreet.com and afbfx.com throughout the lifetime of the contest.

Prizes, including live trading accounts, are provided by the sponsor of the competition, AFB FX, and by the Media Partners: Currensys, fxKnight.com, BKForex.com, Pro Trader Strategies and StrategyQuant.

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FXstreet.com Collaborating with the Greenwich Business School

university of GreenwichWe are delighted to announce that we are taking our first steps into formal education and are exploring a relationship with Greenwich Business School (GBS) in London.

GBS is located in the prestigious grounds of the Old Royal Navy College, and due to its prime location can boast excellent links to institutions in both the City and Docklands financial hubs in London. They also have a host of sister schools across the world, including mainland Europe, Asia and Africa. Our aim is to collaborate with them as often as possible, so watch this space for exciting future developments.

As part of a research collaboration, we will be assisting them with a high profile Phd project that they have recently launched, entitled, “Impact of High Frequency Trading on Market Liquidity Risk and Flash Crashes”. The study touches upon a hot topic within financial markets: High Frequency Trading strategies, and will focus on developing a cutting edge exploration of the relationship between volatility and liquidity.

Prospective students can find further details here. The Closing date is June 4th 2013.

Webinars: One Day | May 16, One Topic | Volatility

Volatility can be tricky when trading. We have asked 6 of our webinars speakers to come at FXstreet.com on May 16 to talk about how they see it, trade it or comment how markets have been behaving recently.

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Forex Social Network: Carol Harmer and Barcelona MeetUp Group

I wanted to share with you news about our Forex Social Network, Forexstreet.net!

Carol HarmerCarol Harmer, founder of CharmerCharts.com, will be in the Forexstreet.net chat every Tuesday and Thursday at 10:00am GMT during 20 minutes to give her view on the FX markets and answer the network’s members questions.

To participate to the chat, you just need log in at Forexstreet.net. At the bottom of any page of our network, you will find the chat room.

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Webinar on FXstudies COT tools

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A few weeks ago, FXstreet.com released 6 new widgets based on the CFTC Commitment of Traders report in its FX Studies section. Next Monday, May 13th at 14 GMT / 10 am EDT, our Content Advisor Gonçalo Moreira will present these new studies in a special webinar. This session will also serve as an introduction to the CoT report in general and to the various way to interpret the data.

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FXstreet.com news editor Gus Farrow passed CMT Level 1

Gus FarrowLast Friday Gus Farrow, FX analyst and news editor for FXstreet.com, went to London to take the CMT Level 1 exam and passed! CMT stands for Chartered Market Technician, and is the study of Technical Analysis.  It covers a lot of theory and definition at this level. Next up is Level 2 which  is focused on the application of theory into practice.

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B2B: FXstreet.com at the iFXEXPO Cyprus

Will you be at the iFXEXPO in Cyprus later this month? We hope we can meet you! FXstreet.com is going to attend this Forex B2B Expo as a Media Sponsor. Organized by ConversionPros, the iFXEXPO International Cyprus is the event for all Forex providers and brokers to meet, network, learn industry trends and make business.

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Projects Ideas Day at FXstreet.com’s Headoffice

Yesterday was a special day at FXstreet.com. All of the staff at our Barcelona headoffice took a break from their usual tasks to take part in a first-time experience.

We all met at 09:00 am and started the day by watching a video about how the company IDEO comes up with new ideas and projects. Then we were explained a technique to develop new ideas or solve issues, called the “Mind Map”. After that, the day itself took off!

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Tracing the Debt Crisis: A Dynamic Timeline

Today we’re launching new content in our Fundamental secction. We gathered all our reports and the most important articles about the Global Crisis since October 2010 on a dynamic timeline: bailouts, rating agencies news, central bank moves and statements, European Commission meetings, elections, yields, national debts,…

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Thanks to the bottom timeline scroll you can browse by time and find the corresponding news. There is a zoom at the left so you can see a greater or smaller period of time on the timeline. When clicking on the title of the piece of news, you will be able to read it full. Hope you find it not only graphically interesting but also useful!

Trader of the Year 2013: Registration for the contest is open!

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We’re excited to announce that traders can register for the 6th edition of the Trader of the Year contest, a  competition open to all individuals who are minimum 18 years old at the time of the contest start, excluding residents of the US.  As last year, the contest will be conducted on DEMO accounts only. All contestants will start with USD 5,000 of virtual funds in their trading accounts and with a leverage of 1:100. AFB FX sponsors the competition and the winner will be the contestant with the highest Account Equity.

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