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Ten years ago, in 1998, retail futures traders were able to click and trade in a sub-second for the first time ever, using the BESTDirect electronic trading platform created by PFGBEST.com (PFG) to link directly to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Globex trading engine. That breakthrough put retail investors and traders using BESTDirect on a level playing field with any institution or …

CHICAGO—-Ten years ago, in 1998, retail futures traders were able to click and trade in a sub-second for the first time ever, using the BESTDirect electronic trading platform created by PFGBEST.com to link directly to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Globex trading engine.

Trading currencies can be very rewarding, but it can also cost you big time if you don’t know what you’re doing. In this excerpt from the book “Adventures of a Currency Trader”, Rob Booker talks about the lessons he learned from a disastrous rookie trade.

One of the greatest features of the foreign exchange market is that it is open 24 hours a day. This allows investors from around the world to trade during normal business hours, after work or even in the middle of the night. However, not all times are created equal.

On the heels of more than 128 percent growth in 2007, Interbank FX (www.IBFX.com), a leading provider of online foreign currency (Forex) trading, recently announced the appointments of Daren Thayne, Chris An and Carrie Matteson to the company’s growing management team.

Danish online investment bank Saxo has acquired Cambiste, a French provider of Web-based foreign exchange trading services, for an undisclosed sum.