Hi everyone

At IT-Finance (Prorealtime.com) charts at FXstreet.com

http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/live-charts/

You can already save your lines and indicators

Just login FXstreet.com or create your membership now - top right of all pages - and then go to Live Charts Window. At the bottom of the chart you´ll see save feature.

Interactive Data’s charts will be added soon to FXstreet.com and you´ll be able to save your work too if you are a member of FXstreet.com.

Again, to be a member of FXstreet.com is Free.

You just have to register yourself and that´s it

Enjoy this new feature!

Francesc

Hi everyone

The office is boiling up today, everybody so busy replacing Netdania as a rates&charts software provider with Interactive Data and IT-Finance.

In a previous post on January 25th I already announced that Interactive Data would become not only our main feed provider of FX and Futures data but also a software provider through different formats as XML, java applets, flash and snapshots.

I also mentioned that we were in advanced conversations with a second software and data provider. Well, conversations ended well and we are signing up an agreement with one of the fast growing companies in the FX software field as the French company IT-Finance is.

IT-Finance is lead by Arnaud Trepat, a young entrepreneur that not only offers service to end users through their site prorealtime.com but also succesfully develops trading softwares for FX FDM’s.

IT-Finance already provides FXstreet.com with a java chart applet that is the most viewed chart page on FXstreet.com

This chart will be considerably improved not just by increasing pairs disclosed from 42 to 115, but also by offering features like saving, multiple charts, news on charts, 20 indicators including Doug Schaff’s STC, and more…

IT-Finance will also provide us with java applets rates including 115 fx symbols from the Swiss market maker Realtime Forex SA.

Realtime Forex SA was established in January 2000 as Switzerland’s first online market maker for foreign exchange. We at FXstreet.com have been using their feed in our Premium’s desktop software for Traders Visual Chart and we now want to use it in our open web site.

With this initiative, FXstreet.com should be the first FX site – as far as I know – offering rates from an interbank feed like Interactive Data’s - with prices from HSBC, RBoS, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Deutsche Bank or UBS - and from a top European market maker like Realtime Forex SA.

You will shortly notice how charts improve and incorporate new features as months go by. This will for sure represent an important improvement in terms of quantity and quality of the data we offer.

Hope we will have a smooth launching day tomorrow and you´ll be able to appreciate that things are moving for good.

Francesc

Hi everyone

Effective of today, GFT and FOREXSTREET SL put a stop to their relationship on the Managed Accounts Program (MAP), run by FOREXSTREET SL.

The reasons at the origin of that split in the relationship are found in the discrepancies arising from the trading approach used in the MAP G8 FX VALUE GROWTH PROGRAM.

MAP G8 FX VALUE GROWTH PROGRAM is FOREXSTREET SL’s aggressive and leveraged Program aimed at retail clients with tolerance for risk, while aiming at higher returns.

GFT found the conditions not to be on what they would consider manageable risk and considers the swings in equity far too excessive. The discrepancies led to a dispute that has ended up with the termination of the relationship.

At this moment, InterbankFX is the sole FDM offering access to both MAP’s programs

Francesc

Hi everyone

Good news.

We are about to launch new charts and rates on FXstreet.com.

Launching date February 1st 2008

As you probably already know, FXstreet.com has been successfully working the last few years with a rates and charts software provider named Netdania.com.

Through Netdania’s XML and Java Applets, our users have been enjoying great feeds initially provided by Tenfore and later on by Interactive Data and Netdania itself.

I want to thank Netdania’s leader Stig Brylle for having been providing us good services for so many years.

We wanted to explore new opportunities so we decided to move to a new software provider that could be even two if our conversations with a second player end up succesfully.

We are now going to work only with Interactive Data. So they will become feed provider as well as software provider of FXstreet.com.

Interactive Data will put at our disposal either through XML or java applets over 1,000 symbols and advanced charts that will include features as saving artwork, benchmarking with other rates, indices and futures, wide range of indicators, news on charts and more…

Those features will be implemented from launching date February 1st 2008 to April 31st 2008.

On the other hand, we are in very advanced conversations with another provider to launch internet java charts that will also include features like saving, multiple charts, news, 20 indicators including Doug Schaff’s STC, and more…

The partner should also provide us with java applets rates including 115 fx symbols from a Swiss market maker.

With this initiative, FXstreet.com should be the first FX site – as far as I know – offering rates from an interbank feed like Interactive Data’s and from a market maker.

You will shortly notice how charts improve and incorporate new features as months go by. This will for sure represent an important improvement in terms of quantity and quality of the data we offer.

Just crossing my fingers that change will be for good and that we will soon be able to reach an agreement with the second provider.

Happy weekend

Francesc

Hi everyone

Glad to let you know that KBC Bank is going to increase the number of reports it is currently publishing at FXstreet.com

We started a couple of years ago by publishing their Sunrise report. From here, the content relationship has never stopped improving through more research, webinars….

To view all reports from KBC Bank at FXstreet.com, click here

List of New reports:
- Central European Daily
- Central European Weekly
- The Commodities Report

Reports to be published soon:
-The Market Pulse
-KBC Weekly Government Bond Auction Calendar
-KBC Weekly Overview Economic Indicators

Francesc

Hi everyone

I´m starting to get used to the fact that days that are bad for the financial world in general are excellent for us.

Financial turmoil across all world stock markets - except U.S markets that were closed - on Monday January 21st generated a lot of expectations about what could happen the next day in the U.S.

As you know, previsions were indicating a big drop in the U.S open and the Fed unexpectecly intervened with a 75 basic points reduction of its main interest rates.

The result of all this is that on Tuesday January 22nd the biggest crowd ever stopped by FXstreet.com.

53k unique visitors came in beating the previous high of 45,631 reached on January 8th 2008.

In terms of page views and visits, new highs were touched as well, reaching 83k visits and 220k page views. September 18th 2007 was our last record, when FXstreet.com got  68,657 visits and 209,208 page views .

January 22nd 2008 (new all-time daily highs)
83,686 Visits
53,388 Absolute Unique Visitors
220,829 Pageviews

Thank you all!

Francesc

Hi everyone,

Maud Gilson, our LIVE manager asked me to let you all know that tomorrow we will hold Rob Booker’s monthly webinar.

Topic: Creating and Using a Powerful Trading Plan

Do not miss it as the topic is relevant for you traders

Here you have below the necessary info Maud sent me to register

Francesc

Rob Booker Monthly Webinar
In this special Monthly Webinar, Rob argues that having a plan is critically important for your day to day trading — and much less important for the "big picture". This goes against much of what we are taught as traders. In the presentation, Rob will include a description of what a trading plan can include, how a trading plan can boost your trading to a higher level, how you can keep track of your progress and implementation of your plan, and much more.

As always, our Monthly webinar is made of two parts.
Part 1 (at 14:00 GMT / 09:00 EST) is free and open to all users. You can register now here!

Topics:
* How to Share Your Plan with Others
* How to Use a Trading Plan Every Day, Week, and Month

Part 2 is reserved for Premium Users only and will start at 15:30 GMT / 10:30 EST (More info here)

Topics:
* The Essentials of a Powerful Trading Plan
* What a Trading Plan Is NOT: Common Misconceptions

To attend our webinars, the hotComm software has to be downloaded on your computer. You can do it for free from here.

Don’t miss our Monthly Webinar! Rob’s webinars are always very lively and interesting educational sessions!

You can watch the "Longer-term Support and Resistance Trading: Setups and Rules" previous webinars that Rob Booker held at FXstreet.com:

* Recording of the webinar held on of Jan 08 2008
* Recording of the webinar held on of Dec 11 2007
* Recording of the webinar Webinar of Tue, Nov 13 2007

Thanks to all and see you soon in our Live Section!

Hi everyone

Fed cut interest rates to 3.50%, an emergency and unexpected 75 bp cut

We at FXstreet.com are running a emergency and unexpected live coverage about it

If you wish to attend, please go to

http://www.fxstreet.com/

Hi everyone

I wanted to share with you a link to the latest special coverage my people prepared today.

It is called U.S recession?

As you very well know, the financial markets are caught by fears of a US recession and a worsening of the problems in the financial sector. The coverage tries to review the most recent events that have led to this situation.

I hope you´ll like it

Francesc

Hi everyone

As I announced on last December 5th 2007, Doug Schaff chose FXstreet.com as the place to release the code of the Schaff Trend Cycle Indicator

The code will be released on February 15th 2008.

Also, FXstreet.com will display new charts from February 1st 2008. These will incorporate the STC indicator for the use of all visitors.

Stay tuned to FXstreet.com and this blog for more details on the release.

We are very happy to have this opportunity to release a trend indicator code that could be of much help for many traders as this is what we think FXstreet’s goal is… to help traders.

Francesc

note: As my friend John Putman  pointed very well out, there are other trend
cycle indicators out there that could work well for traders too. I
invited John to publish his at our Forum as my content department only
wants to have Doug’s on our charts.
Any indicator author out there is very welcome to contact me if he wants to release propietary code as Doug is doing.