Hi everyone

After touching new daily highs on Thursday October 8th when it jumped to 25,962 page views, the day before yesterday Wednesday November 4th the home page kept its recent extraordinary performance and touched a new all-time high to touch 28,380 page views, almost 11% of all the traffic the site had on such day.

The new high got the inestimable help of the FED’s Interest Rate Decision Live Coverage that took place in our home page and Economic Calendar.

Good news indeed once again

Francesc

Watch it with your girlfriend/wife and share the experience

Francesc

I just found this little jewel for those of you that love Football (also known as Soccer) as I do.

As a Barça fan, I’ve got nothing but admiration for Urawa Red Fans… This guys are just great!

Francesc

The countdown is finished ant the ITC 2009 has started early today in Barcelona with the welcome words of the webiste director Noemí Jansana and the ITC manager Maud Gilson. After the initial speech, all the attendees enjoyed Markus Heitkoetter presentation about the keys of how to trade in today’s volatile markets.

The coffee break offered a unique moment for exchanging greetings and knowing all the faces gathered in the ITC. Now we all are enjoying Andrei Pehar’s speech about the technical indicators in the present fundamental crisis conditions.

Stay tuned! Check our Flickr account to see pics of the event!

Noemí Jansana

Hi everyone

An off topic for once in a while

As some of you readers of this boring blog already know, I not only a big fan of my soccer team FC Barcelona - also known as Barça - but I’m a big basketball fan as well.

I played the ball from 11 to 26 years old and I coached from 17 to 35. I love basketball.

I was thrilled by the Celtics and the Lakers in the 80s, Detroit and Chicago in the 90s but haven’t found a team to admire in the XXIst century… yet

Above all the great players there is one that I should kneel before: Mr. Michael Jordan.

This guy has never stop to surprise me and except when he decided to retire twice, he has always surprised me for good.

This is his latest surprise. How a forty-something retired mature man - with some overweight - can still be the very best and teach lessons to the younger.

Amazing!

Francesc

Hi everyone

Some more good news for today. FXstreet’s Forex News performance does not stop to surprise me. When we launched our own Forex News feed I was sure that it would be a success, what I was not expecting is that it would come so fast.

In September we recovered already the number of page views we had when the feed was a compilation of Reuters, AFX/Thomson and Dow Jones news. It is important to highlight that current news represent less than half of the number of news we use to had back in October. In January 2009, the loss of news offered when up to 80% having a big toll in total of page views numbers during those months.

As happiness can not last forever, the number of views will probably fall again on March 2010 as we will remove in February Dow Jones news so the feed will be just our home made Forex news.
The good news is that we are increasing the editor’s team with two new guys to reinforce European and Asia/Pacific times, so the quality of the feed should improve.

On the other hand, News home page at FXstreet.com is on its way to double its audience from October 2008, jumping from 15,000 page views per week to over 25,000.

Good job guys

Francesc

Federal Court Freezes Assets of Texas Trading Firms M25 Investments, Inc. and M37 Investments, LLC, and Scott Kear, Sr., Jeffrey Lyon and David Seaman, Charged by the CFTC with an $8 Million Forex Fraud
Court appoints a receiver to indentify assets and funds owed customers

Washington, DC — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced it obtained an emergency court order freezing assets held by defendants M25 Investments, Inc., M37 Investments, LLC, Scott P. Kear, Sr., Jeffrey L. Lyon, all of Waxahachie, Tex., and David G. Seaman, of Arlington, Tex. The court’s order also prohibits the destruction of records and appoints a receiver to identify assets, customers and amounts owed customers.

The court’s order stems from a CFTC anti-fraud enforcement action filed on September 29, 2009, in the U.S. District Court in Dallas, charging the defendants with fraudulently soliciting at least $8 million from approximately 224 customers in connection with the trading of foreign currency (forex), forex options and commodity futures contracts. The defendants ran their alleged scheme out of their offices in Texas, West Virginia and Mississippi. Many of the defendants’ customers were elderly and knew each other through churches in West Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, Maryland and other states, according to the CFTC complaint.
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Micropayments: the next big online revenue model? by IESE Business School

When Google enters a new line of business, it’s a safe bet that this business will get a lot of attention from the technology ecosystem. Micropayments, an already hot trend this year, got a further boost when Google announced two weeks ago that it will offer micropayment services through its Checkout system.

Micropayments are transfers of small amounts of money. Small may mean anything from several dollars to fractions of a cent. Such payments in theory should have a big potential on the internet, where they would fill the gap between free (or advertisement-sponsored) content and things that cost over several dollars. However, several individual areas notwithstanding (iTunes being the most prominent example), they are yet to be widely adopted.
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Probably you must have seen it but I did not till today and I got really impressed

Worth every second it lasts

Francesc

Hi everyone

Comparing the traffic stats by country for the 1 half of the year vs. the previous semester, I must congratulate myself for the great increase experienced from UK visitors (40%), while in the negative side I must highlight the big fall experienced by Japanese visitors (-47%) as the new FXstreet.jp is driving Japanese visitors to it.

Francesc

1. United States
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 2,130,284
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 1,789,384
% Change 19.05%

2. United Kingdom
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 1,023,845
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 729,877
% Change 40.28%

3. Singapore
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 683,276
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 593,031
% Change 15.22%

4. Canada
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 588,106
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 484,675
% Change 21.34%

5. India
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 508,301
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 419,523
% Change 21.16%

6. Hong Kong
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 395,690
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 319,011
% Change 24.04%

7. Australia
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 332,023
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 290,618
% Change 14.25%

8. Malaysia
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 293,078
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 215,705
% Change 35.87%

9. Japan
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 234,500
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 438,778
% Change -46.56%

10. Indonesia
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009 232,274
July 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 186,130
% Change 24.79%