When the CFTC announced its 10-1 margin cap, some in the industry thought the CFTC was defending the futures industry by trying to force forex business onto the futures exchanges. A CEO of one of the biggest futures brokerages has come to the defense of the OTC industry, saying the regulations will only drive business off shore…

EBS, the world’s largest venue for spot foreign exchange trading, has chosen ForexLive as the only retail-oriented forex website to receive permission to receive EBS data and use it in our analysis.

We now have real-time access to traded highs and lows in the interbank market and will be able to display charts with those levels. This is the best data available; the gold standard for the market.

Thanks to our friends at EBS for making this data available to the ForexLive community.

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Volumes in London rose 14% in London and 28% in New York during the May/October time frame, central bank surveys say.

Congress has closed some loopholes in the law, giving the CFTC the power to regulate retail forex trading. Here are the details.

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An arbitration claim against City NY has been filed by Abu Dhabi Investment authority seeking damages in excess of $4 Bln . Citi has responded by saying that it believes allegations are without merit and will defend them.

Hey, individuals can trade forex too! Who knew?

I’ll be participating in a panel discussion next Tuesday. Click here for details.

The Tobin Tax is on the agenda at the upcoming G2o meeting. I’m not sure of the details of the present proposal but in the past, the idea was to add a tax of 0.1% on each transaction to limit currency speculation. If it is enacted, well, it was nice knowing you all. I’ll be working down at the car wash…

Just crossing the wires are the results of the Bank of England’s semi-annual survey of forex volumes. Volume fell 20% from the earlier six month period, the report found.Turnover was seen at $1.356 trln per day that month.

My guess is the volumes were so astronomical in October 2008 that a drop was inivitable. October was in the midst of the global credit freeze which followed the Lehman and AIG collapses when the dollar was in sharp demand on a rush of global deleveraging. We will likely not see volumes like those seen in October for some time to come.

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