Forex Blog

Some traders don’t like trading with brokers registered in some offshore zone with a little or no regulation at all. For these customers exist such Forex brokers as marketindex. ABN AMRO marketindex is the broker which offers financial market trading services as the division of one of the largest banks in Europe. marketindex offers Forex, CFD, commodities and indexes trading. They offer their own custom Java based platform (you don’t need to download anything) with some interesting functions, like box trading. Actually, I would prefer MetaTrader 4 or even Marketiva’s Streamster to this platform, and the trading conditions are a bit below the competition level, but this broker is a good choice for traders which don’t want to risk losing their funds fraud or broker’s bankruptcy.

A new broker was added to the institutional Forex brokers list today - ECN broker. It doesn’t match its name (at least for Forex services), because it is a market maker broker, not an Electronic Communication Network broker. You’ll still have to pay your spreads (it offers average spreads) and won’t need to pay any commissions. The main reason why I’ve added this broker is that it is a good opportunity to start trading Forex with a regulated broker that has a low minimum account amount of $200 and allows high leverage - 1:400.