Forex Kills

May has been an exceptional month for most of the forex portals. June started very well but the number of visitors fall week after week… I hope I’m not alone!

5 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / forex industry and statistics

Last week I met Andrey Duka (from Dukascopy) at the Geneva Forex Event. I was very pleased to learn that M. Duka knows and really appreciates Mataf. It was enought for a succesful evening.

No Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / about

The worldcup has a negative effect on the number of visitors. Last friday for the opening ceremony and the 2 firsts match Mataf had a fall of 10%.

On saturday and sunday I had the same “worldcup effect”… And it will certainly continue until  the 11th of july!

2 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / statistics

Last month I changed the homepage and I wrote

This is the first step of the most important move since Mataf exists.

And today, after weeks and weeks of work, I have pushed a version of Mataf in 51 languages. I have several motivations in this project:

• The first motivation is the technical challenge. Mataf.net was designed for 6 languages. It was hard coded. I re-wrote most of the functions and files to accept an illimited number of languages. And Yes, I’m very happy because it works!
• I also wanted to open Mataf to the Asian market. I know that most of traders in Asia speaks english but I also know that most of people prefers to read in their mother tongue. I think I can have more visitors from Asia than Europe. I was conforted in that idea when I read the interview of Drew Niv (CEO of FXCM)

Well, traditionally FXCM has been very strong in Asian countries. Actually our Asian business is bigger than our North American business; over 45% of our clients come from Asia. We have a hugh presence in Asia

• Saxo Bank seems to have an important number of clients in Russia, Arabia and Greece… And now, I offer those languages!

• I have to found a new leverage to increase the number of visitors on Mataf.

My target is to double the number of visitors on Mataf in one year. Last month, which was an excellent month, I had 1.430M visits, 4.475 M pageviews and 0.93 M unique visitors. In May 2011 I expect arround 3M visits, 10M pageviews and 2M unique visitors. This is my impossible challenge

The translation is not perfect but I will improve that point in the next months…

6 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / about and forex industry