Hi z, FXCM is not regulated in the US and therefore does not accept US residents. Jason

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Hi zekin, I notice your bio says you are located in Sweden. Traders in Sweden and the EU region are unable to open an account with FXCM Australia, which means we wouldn't be able to move your account from the UK to Australia. The account must be ...

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image FXCM is hosting an algo trading summit on 15 June 2018 in London with speakers including Rob Carver, Dr. Yves Hilpisch, Artur Sepp, and more discussing topics on using APIs, machine learning strategies, Python, artificial intelligence, and ...

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Effective Spreads Widget Many of you already know that we provide historical spread data on our website via a spreads widget. The widget displays the historical spread for the top currency pairs and you can view the data on an hourly or daily basis. ...

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Hi Aad, FXCM is a Leucadia company now. Leucadia holds a 50% voting interest and up to a 75% economic interest in the FXCM Group, and our membership in the Leucadia family, which includes Jefferies Group, has and will help us better serve our ...

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Hi C-12, The promotion was supposed to end on March 30th, but we have decided to continue with same spread levels for spread betting accounts . The website should be updated shortly removing the reference to the promotion period. Jason

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Machine Learning Webinar Series Tomorrow (May 1) our education website QuantNews is hosting the first of a 3 part webinar series on Machine Learning and how to implement it into your algorithmic trading strategy using Python programming language. ...

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Can you please clarify what you mean by this? FXCM clients can withdraw funds at any time by submitting a withdrawal request through MyFXCM, our client account management portal. Jason

Black swan events / CHF Peg

Hi ycomp, If FXCM were acting as a market maker on NDD forex execution we would not have suffered more than $200 million dollars in losses during the SNB flash crash. On NDD forex execution, every order is offset one-for-one with a liquidity ...

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Hi sideway, I'm sorry to hear you were having problems with the MT4 platform on your computer. I'll PM you for more details so our technical support team can help identify what is happening to find a solution. Jason

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Hi djxput, Any broker that ultimately falls under ESMA supervision could potentially be impacted by the new leverage rules, that includes FXCM UK. Therefore FXCM UK will have to implement the same rules. For anyone not familiar with what djxput is ...

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Automating Your Strategy on Trading Station desktop using Lua Anyone looking to create automated strategies for our Trading Station desktop platform will find 2 new video tutorials we created helpful for coding your strategy in Lua. ...

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Hi radical, Yes, Trading Station strategies automatically turn themselves off during weekend maintenance and turn themselves back on before trading begins. Jason

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The REST API is available for Trading Station accounts. To connect to NinjaTrader, you need to fill out a letter of direction form. I’ll PM you with more details on connecting to Ninja. Jason

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I apologize if you received inaccurate information over the phone. The information I provided is correct. If you remember who you spoke with or the date and time you contacted us, I would like investigate who you spoke and bring any errors in ...

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Hi mnm, FXCM has over 100,000 active accounts and $12 billion in average daily trading volume as of our latest metrics release from February 2017. And recent analysis by FinanceMagnates ranks us as the second biggest retail FX broker outside of ...

Brokers for Canadians?

Hello robgsxr, GSI was decommissioned unfortunately and will no longer be available in the next update. There are other tools available in FXCM PLUS you may find useful which you can access with a live account such as trading signals and the ...

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Hello Langham Valri, I can’t speak for other brokers. FXCM is regulated by both the FCA and ASIC. FXCM is also a part of Leucadia (NYSE:LUK), a diversified holding company which counts Jefferies Group LLC as a wholly owned subsidiary in addition to ...

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FXCM Launches REST API and Python Wrapper Our new REST API was launched today and is now available to connect to FXCM's trading server. The REST API lets you integrate with our trading system using popular programming languages such as Python and ...

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Hi passionyeh, I don’t have a timeframe for when we plan to release MT5, but I’ll let you know if and when we have information. Thanks for your feedback about backtesting on MT5. I will make sure it gets back to our management team. Jason

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