Advanced Markets is a company focused on bringing true Direct Market Access (DMA) liquidity, credit and technology solutions to the foreign exchange, energy, precious metals and CFD markets. Our firm has put together an international team of FX experts who are located all over the world. Our marketing team asked key members of this team to tell us a little more about their individual roles and responsibilities, the clients that the firm is servicing and their thoughts on how Advanced Markets is adapting to the fast changing FX landscape.
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Traders,
FX Liquidity,
Platforms & Technology,
Company,
Thought Leadership,
Forex Brokerage,
Start Your Own Forex Brokerage,
Brokerage,
SYOB,
FX Broker Startup,
Forex Marketing,
Wholesale FX,
FX Technology Provider,
FX Liquidity Provider,
Institutional Trader,
Institutional Broker
With high frequency trading estimated to account for more than 50% of the trading volume in the U.S. and more than 25% in Europe, the number of available price updates (ticks) per second has become an important criteria for FX Brokers, HFTs and Fund Managers when choosing a liquidity provider.[1]
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Traders,
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Forex Brokerage,
Start Your Own Forex Brokerage,
Algo Trading,
MT5,
MT4,
MetaTrader,
Wholesale FX,
FX Technology Provider,
FX Liquidity Provider,
Institutional Trader,
Institutional Broker
The MetaTrader 4 Bridge is one of the most popular add-ons for MT4 Servers. It was created in early 2000 and, ever since then, there have been many rumors as to who actually developed the first commercial version (of course, many industry veterans know the name).
MetaTrader 5 bridges are now beginning to emerge, and the speed of their development is directly correlated with the very recent growth in MT5 adoption rates.
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Topics:
Traders,
Platforms & Technology,
Thought Leadership,
Forex Brokerage,
Brokerage,
MT5,
MT4,
MetaTrader,
Institutional Trader,
Institutional Broker
Traditionally, December is the month when the majority of FX professionals take some well-deserved time off. Fund Managers are avoiding any major market participation that could negatively impact annual return statistics; bank employees are trying to use up their remaining vacation time, and the overall the spirit of holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Omisoka, Kwanzaa, and many others) makes December the perfect time to relax ahead of the January hype.
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FX Liquidity,
Platforms & Technology,
Start Your Own Forex Brokerage,
SYOB,
FX Broker Startup,
STP,
MT5,
MT4,
Wholesale FX,
FX Technology Provider,
FX Liquidity Provider,
Institutional Trader,
Institutional Broker
FIX (Financial Information Exchange) API (application programming interface) is a highly scalable electronic communication protocol to facilitate the real-time exchange of information related to financial markets. It has become the de facto standard method of pre-trade, trade and post-trade communication. Market participants including banks, hedge funds, prime brokers and “prime of primes” utilize FIX for their own trading needs or to connect directly to clients.
To give you an indication as to how popular FIX is: the FIX Trader Community has around 110 000 registered members and 275 corporate members (including Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and so on).
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Topics:
Platforms & Technology,
Thought Leadership,
Start Your Own Forex Brokerage,
SYOB,
FX Broker Startup,
Forex B2B,
FX Technology Provider,
FX Liquidity Provider,
FIX API,
Institutional Trader,
Institutional Broker
