eToro is a social trading and multi-asset brokerage company that focuses on providing financial and copy trading services. It has registered offices in Cyprus, Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. In 2018, the company’s value was $800 million.
A stock trader or equity trader or share trader is a person or company involved in trading equity securities. Stock traders may be an agent, hedger, arbitrageur, speculator, stockbroker. Such equity trading in large publicly traded companies may be through a stock exchange. Stock shares in smaller public companies may be bought and sold in over-the-counter (OTC) markets.
Foreign exchange fraud is any trading scheme used to defraud traders by convincing them that they can expect to gain a high profit by trading in the foreign exchange market. Currency trading became a common form of fraud in early 2008, according to Michael Dunn of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Matchbook FX was an internet-based electronic communication network for trading currency online in the Spot-FX or Foreign exchange market. It operated between 1999 and 2002.
ZuluTrade is a Greek fintech company that operates an online and mobile social and copy trading platform. The platform allows users to copy other traders in the forex. As of 2014 ZuluTrade had around one million users and an executed trading volume of over $800 billion.
City Index is a spread betting, FX and CFD Trading provider based in the UK. City Index is part of GAIN Capital and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The company is headquartered in London and has offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and Dubai.
FXCM, also known as Forex Capital Markets, is a retail broker for trading on the foreign exchange market. FXCM allows people to speculate on the foreign exchange market and provides trading in contract for difference (CFDs) on major indices and commodities such as gold and crude oil. It is based in London.
Currensee was a financial services company based in Boston to serve as a social network for foreign exchange traders. The company provided mirror trading services to its clients that allowed them to make trading decisions based on other traders actions. The company was acquired by Oanda in 2013, which decided to close down the service a year later in October 2014.
MRC Markets is an Austrian financial brokerage firm offering on-line trading in Forex and CFDs. It has membership of the Vienna Stock exchange and licensed in Russia and Lithuania. It has offices in Russia, the UK and India.
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, better known as CySEC, is the financial regulatory agency of Cyprus. As an EU member state, CySEC's financial regulations and operations comply with the European MiFID financial harmonization law.
Social trading is a form of investing that allows investors to observe the trading behavior of their peers and expert traders and to follow their investment strategies using copy trading or mirror trading. Social trading requires little or no knowledge about financial markets, and has been described as a low-cost, sophisticated alternative to traditional wealth managers by the World Economic Forum.
FxStat Group or FxStat, is an online social networking service in financial services headquartered in United Kingdom, London and the name FxStat comes from a combination of Forex and Statistics. FxStat was founded in April 2010 and focusing on the foreign exchange market, Stock market, and Commodity market. The focus was initially on social networking only, but later expanded to trading statement track record assessment, following successful traders portfolio, copying top performing traders, reading news, and sharing trades through a single platform to FxStat Group, Facebook and Twitter.
Copy Trading enables individuals in the financial markets to automatically copy positions opened and managed by another selected individuals.
Hirose Financial UK Ltd. is a UK-based retail foreign exchange broker that provides foreign exchange trading on margin through its own online trading platform called LION Trader. It is a subsidiary of Japanese FX company Hirose Financial that provides online trading solution to forex traders.
ActivTrades is a UK-based brokerage firm providing an electronic trading platform to trade Forex, Contracts for Difference (CFDs), and spread betting. It provides services to retail and institutional traders via the electronic trading platforms ActivTrader, MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5.
WhoTrades is a US-based financial services company with offices in New York and Cyprus and a subsidiary of Russian broker Finam Holdings. It serves as a social trading network, trading educator and stockbrokerage. Users can buy and sell stocks, options, commodities, indexes and currencies via web-based, mobile, and desktop electronic trading platforms. Blogs and trade-sharing tools make up the social aspect of the WhoTrades website.
Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) is a U.S.-based brokerage firm. It operates the largest electronic trading platform in the U.S. by number of daily average revenue trades. The company brokers stocks, options, futures, EFPs, futures options, forex, bonds, and funds.
Swissquote Group Holding SA is a Swiss banking group specialising in the provision of online financial and trading services. The Group's shares have been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol “SQN” since 29 May 2000. The Group's headquarters are located in Gland, Switzerland. The company also has offices in Zurich, Bern, Dubai, Malta, London and Hong Kong. The Group has 545 employees.
Capital Index is an international financial brokerage service offering online trading in contracts for difference (CFDs) and spread betting. Based in the UK and with an entity in Cyprus, the company offers clients access to a broad range of financial markets including foreign exchange, commodities, stock indices, bonds and metals. Capital Index (UK) Ltd is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
MultiBank Group is a global financial derivatives brokers particularly in the foreign exchange (forex) & contract for difference (CFD) sectors.
