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MF Global Markets is a leading provider of financial services and online trading solutions, offering individuals and institutions, the ability to trade the following products: Forex Futures Options Contracts for Difference

IG Markets is part of the IG Group, a UK FTSE 250 company with offices in Melbourne, London, Paris, Singapore, Chicago, Madrid, Luxembourg, Dusseldorf, Netherlands, Johannesburg, Lisbon, Milan, Tokyo, Stockholm, and Beijing. IG Group companies have over 130,000 clients worldwide making more than 5 million transactions a month, with over 99% of them online. IG Markets specializes in financial derivatives, principally Contracts for Difference (CFDs), delivering exceptional customer service alongside innovative trading technology. Clients include brokers, fund managers and trading companies, as well as private investors.

Since 1989 CMC Markets has been at the forefront of trading innovation and their stated mission is to be the world’s leading online financial services business. The staff at CMC Markets are both knowledgeable and passionate, and they have a corporate culture that champions not just innovation but also personal responsibility. They are always working to deliver exceptional service to their customers. Technology is a key component of the vision and it serves to meet the commitment to provide the best trading experience. Customers demand fast order execution, precision pricing, and access to the most liquid markets, and CMC Markets tries their best to provide all of this, and more. They listen to customers to ensure that they deliver what is needed and required for more efficient and successful trading. Tighter spreads, enhanced risk management, bigger and better charting tools, customizable margins and many other powerful features all make the next generation trading platform what it has evolved into.

ActivTrades offers a broad range of trading products. With the powerful, highly respected and widely popular MetaTrader 4 platform you have the ability to trade over 40 currency pairs in the Forex market plus gold, silver, oil, indices and other commodities. ActivTrades also offers Direct Market Access (DMA) to the world’s major futures exchanges with your choice of several market leading platforms including Ninja Trader, Pro-Mark, J-Trader and Strategy Runner. Forex trading is extremely competitive and precise with 5 digit pricing, spreads from just 1.6 pips for the EUR/USD and high maximum leverage available at 1:400. Money management can be carefully controlled by trading Minilots and Microlots, this means your risk is exclusively under your control. Our trading execution systems are fully automated, this means No Dealing Desk and hence no human intervention to your trading and better execution of your trades. Futures accounts for both private and institutional investors take advantage of low commissions, but still maintain high levels of customer service. Reduced intraday margins allow traders to exercise their preferred strategies and maximize their trading potential.

The heart of the HY Markets service is our state-of- the-art trading platform (Metatrader 4 integrated with HY Markets technology infrastructure). They offer clients the choice of an easy-to-use web-based trading platform, and advanced users download platform with mobile phone trading integration. These cutting-edge multi-product platforms integrate live tradable prices, charting tools, real-time news and market commentary, and complete account information all in easy-to-use revolutionary interfaces. While many online brokers only provide Forex trading, HY Markets clients are able to take advantage of a deep product offering including oil/gas, metals, commodities, stocks and more. All traded within a single integrated account. Such access to multiple markets gives the clients a competitive edge to trade all markets and diversify an investment portfolio.

Sucden Financial Private Client Services draw their knowledge from a diverse set of financial markets ranging from commodities to foreign exchange to stocks. The main business is focused on the United Kingdom equity and index futures and options markets, where the team has well established relationships with an extensive network of market-maker contacts. They help clients identify and quantify commodity exposures, and provide them with trading strategies that will assist in maximizing their returns. Sucden runs free trading seminars which are aimed at providing an insight into derivatives trading, educating clients on both hedging and risk management strategies. SMART, Sucden Financial’s Multi-product Automated Real-time Trader is designed for the retail investor and is serviced by Sucden Financial’s Private Client Services team. This sophisticated platform underlines Sucden Financial’s commitment to providing our clients with the option to trade electronically, with the best trading technology and execution at their disposal.

AL Trade offers both corporate and private customers the access to trade in currency markets using the Metatrader 4 platform both online and in real time mode. Through 5 years of work and promotion the company has gained a large client base in dozens of countries around the world. AL Trade Inc. provides a safe, secure and reliable environment for trading forex online and attempts to provide the most competitive trading conditions by offering low spreads, mobile trading, and other trade advantages. AL Trade employs multilingual teams of very experienced professionals exclusively; with expertise in finance, trade and Information Systems. AL Trade Inc. has set its goal of becoming a leading financial trade company offering 24-hour access to currency markets worldwide.

The UFX Bank website is easy to navigate, however much of the information I normally review is difficult to find or non-existent on the site. I was unable to find details about their trading platform, demo accounts and execution types and was also unable to find detailed information about account terms regarding spreads,, leverage and minimum/maximum positions. Finally, I also encountered discrepancies in the information being provided on some pages. For example the deposit page does not list Paypal as a funding method, yet the FAQ’s indicate that deposits can be made via Paypal. With so many forex brokers available I think I will pass on any that are so stingy with information and/or have outdated information on their site.

Azurite Markets is a leading forex and CFD provider to retail traders, professional traders and institutional investors who wish to trade in international and domestic currency markets. As a market maker the company also offers its services to other OTC financial providers as a “hedging house”. Azurite Markets’ management team has over twenty years experience in the financial industry and they bring with them a depth and breadth of knowledge and are committed to using the latest technologies in order to deliver the best services to their worldwide clients.

Lionstone Investment Services is working on developing a new trading opportunity for their clients that will permit them to trade actual financial instruments in addition to derivative ones. This will provide ways to: Effectively execute trades thanks to low commissions, easy to use instruments available on the trading platform and take advantage of a personalized relationship with the client. Portfolio diversification through investment with the broad spectrum of financial instruments with fixed income, including government and corporate bonds of several countries. Margin trading, short selling and access to a credit line. Conduct various trades with financial instruments that the client already owns.