Category Archives: forex industry
How Social Interaction Propagates Active Investing
Interesting study about trading and social network The Dedicated and the Dabblers: How Social Interaction Propagates Active Investing Our analysis of a new dataset on the activities of retail foreign exchange traders who are participants in a social network … Continue reading
Forex and SEO…
SEO in the Forex Broker space The FX space is competitive. Very competitive. Top brokers post earnings in the hundreds of millions per year and the total retail market volume is almost $5 trillion a month. FXCM and Forex.com alone spent more than $17 million on advertising … Continue reading
Difference between adplanner and Google Analytics
Each month I follow the statistics of a selection of forex website. I use Google Adplanner. This tool gives an estimation of the number of visits. I noticed a divergence between the estimation and the real numbers. With the following … Continue reading
Forex Global Statistics – March 2011
What’s new in the forex industry? Forexpros continues to grow and seems to be now bigger than DailyFX I don’t know if the numbers provided by google are correct but, for the global statistics, march was not as good as … Continue reading
A broker acquires a financial portal
This morning I learned that Saxo Bank will completly acquire the EuroInvestor portal. They pay a huge amount but I think this a very good move a broker can do now on Internet. I keep in mind the acquisition of … Continue reading
Forex Global Statistics – January 2011
According to Google Ad Planner, here is the number of visitors in forex portals in january 2011. I have now 12 months history of number of visits and we can see a lot of information. The global number of visits … Continue reading
Forex global statistics – December 2010
December is always a bad month for forex portals. In 2010 most of the website I follow had a drop in the number of visitors. But 2010 seems to be a fantastic year for myfxbook.com and forexpros, they both had … Continue reading
FXCM has an official blog
I discovered by accident that FXCM had an official blog. It would be great if we could comment ! It’s the occasion to tell that FXCM and Mataf have renewed our exclusive partnership until the beginning of 2013…
Forex global statistics – October 2010
October was the better month since I started tracking statistics. The growth rate is very good but I’m still paying my last modification on Mataf.net. Forexpros and MyFxbook will touch the sky. Fxstreet have passed a strong resistance. Currensee raised … Continue reading
Forex global statistics – September 2010
I didn’t give any statistics since june because of the sun, holidays and a big drop in audience due to a technical error. In june I introduced 45 new languages on Mataf.net. It was not a big modification for the … Continue reading