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50Pipsfx is actually a human who goes by the name 50Pips in order to remain anonymous and let people focus on the message and not on the person. He's been following the markets since he was in his early teens and fills his day with trading and mentoring.
Jay Norris is a 20-year veteran of the Chicago Board of Trade, and has written two books "?Mastering the Currency Market" and "?Mastering Trade Selection and Management." Both volumes are used as text books at Trading University where Jay is the Director of Learning and a mentor in live markets for traders from all over the world.
If anyone believes that ISIS is only a political problem, they should investigate the situation further. ISIS, an acronym for the Salafist-Islamist insurgent group, is a terrorist band more militant than even al-Qaeda (and we thought they were bad enough!) It has already seized major cities in Iraq including its second largest city, Mosul, with a population of approximately two million. Can Baghdad be far behind?
Summer is over, schools have reopened and summer activity is winding down. Along with this emotional and physical slowdown, we are finding a pleasant surprise at the gas pump. For those who have not been paying attention, the price for a gallon of gasoline has been steadily dropping and analysts are predicting that prices will go even lower at least until the end of 2014.
The launch yesterdays of IronFX's intergalactic Forex trading competition once again raises the question as to the merits of such Forex contests, the actual ability to win something while meeting the contest's terms and conditions and the validity of using trading competitions as a means of attracting a quality trader base.
Leading retail Forex broker, IBFX, Inc. and IBFX Australia Pty Ltd to acquire their U.S. and Australian MetaTrader 4 retail Forex accounts. IBFX is a subsidiary of Japan's Monex Group.
As of July 31st, Forex broker LQD Markets Ltd will not be regulated by Cysec, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission under which it has been governed until now. As first reported by Forex Magnates, LQD Markets has renounced its authorization to provide investment services and related activities and has allowed the CySEC investment firm's license number for LQD to expire as of start of August 2014.
The prize for being the first state in the United States to propose a regulatory framework for the Bitcoin goes to New York State. The New York regulatory proposal will be adopted following a 45 day review period and follows similar regulations already applied to financial firms in New York and those operating under federal laws such as FINRA and NFA.