A look inside Fxstreet.com
A little history
FXstreet.com was brought to life in January 2000 by its founder, Francesc Riverola, an economist
from Barcelona, who molded his original "home business" into a solid international company.
Together with his partners, Míriam Pinatell and Sergi Fernández, he has been developing a portal
which has grown to become the trusted source of Forex information for millions of users throughout
the world.
As its distinctive trademark, the website has always honored its commitment to provide neutral and
unbiased information and to enable its users to make better and more confident decisions.
An innovative place for all the Forex Traders
Besides the main website in English, the portal is available in 16 other languages (Spanish, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian, German, French,
Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Catalan and Korean).
In 2011, these FXstreet.com sites reached 79,945,622 pageviews. The English website garnered the
most important part of the traffic with 70,231,808 pageviews and 5,231,392 absolute unique visitors.
FXstreet.com was short listed as “Best e-FX initiative of the year (vendor)” for the FX Week e-FX
Awards 2010.
Connect with FXstreet.com:
Forexstreet.net, The Forex Network: http://www.forexstreet.net/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/FXstreetUpdate
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/FXstreet
CEO's blog: http://blogs.fxstreet.com/francesc/
Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/fxstreetcom
24- hour Forex News
Under the “News” section,
the traders will find the 24hours, 5-day a week exclusive
service producing more than
100 pieces of news every
day and covering, in real-time,
the most relevant movements
of the highest-traded pairs,
including majors and small
dollars. This news service
includes a broad look on the
most active currency pairs,
providing FX traders with
updates or summaries of the
markets' latest developments.
FXstreet.com also taps experts
and banks to present their
analysis and forecasts. The
newest story of this section is
always published on the
homepage, first shot position.
Economic Calendar
FXstreet.com covers major
events from the US, UK, EU,
Germany, Japan,
Switzerland, China Canada,
Australia , New Zealand and
emerging economies
(amounting to approximately
one hundred releases on any
given week).
The Economic Calendar is
a real-time, on-screen
resource for previous,
forecast and current data.
The Calendar also gives
access to historical data
and news coverage in
addition to expert analysis,
forecast and special
coverages or webinars of the
most important indicators..
Rates and Charts
The most visited section of
the website, Rates and
Charts, includes more than
1,000 exchange rates in
real time. That highfrequency updated data
directly comes from big
interbank liquidity providers.
A wide variety of chart
applications by different
providers (ProRealTime,
Netdania...) is also made
available for a vast number
of currency pairs with over
100 technical indicators.
Currencies at a Glance (CAG)
The CAG is a resource that houses
major crosses with one-click links
to each pair's highs and lows,
support and resistance
information as well as current
trend and bias.
Traders are provided with detailed
technical information for every
single one of the thirty-four major
crosses and they can set time
frames for these tools. This page
allows users to detect
confluences between values,
technical levels and the
indicators themselves.
The Heat Map is a graphical
representation of the relative
strengths of major currencies,
organizing the data from 20
currency pairs into color-coded
results producing a clear overview
of the whole Forex market..
Research
The massive flow of information is one of FXstreet.com's trademarks. The Technical,
Fundamental and Education sections are continuously supplied with specialized reports
from external and in-house providers. The reports range from live market rates and
trading strategies under the technical umbrella to in-depth analysis of macroeconomic
events and their impact on currencies for fundamental traders or insights for those dipping
their feet in the FX market in the education area.
FXstreet.com is in tight collaboration with over 180 providers from virtually every
branch of the Forex universe. Visitors are able to research information published by
financial institutions like Commerzbank or the Danske Bank amongst others; FX brokers
such as FXCM or MIG Bank and analysts expert views are posted exclusively on this
website. There are over 200 new reports uploaded daily, divided by section and easy to
find using one of the many search options.
Education and Webinars
FXstreet.com devotes a whole section to Forex trading Education: the Learning Center.
The LC is a four-unit program taking new traders from the basics of designing to the
implementation of a trading plan. Each unit has four chapters and a practice feature.
Those completing the program will learn to deal with technical, fundamental, charts and
candlestick analysis, how to develop their own trading system, understanding statistics
and manage their money to finally be able to execute their plan. An exclusive content,
probably the most complete free educational program you can find about Forex on
the internet.
The Forex portal is committed to ongoing training and coaching. The “Webinars” section
offers between 4 and 10 sessions per day, covering every trading session broadcasting 24
hours a day. These webinars can deal with how to trade basing on special events like
Wayne Mcdonald's Non Farm Payrolls US indicator which can gather up to seven
hundred attendants in its 3-hour session.
Other Webinars have a more technical approach or market commentaries. Some of the
most followed guest speakers are Sam Seiden, Rob Booker, Ed Ponsi or Ron William.
The Webinars section also crosses over with the education. FXstreet.com has more than
400 recordings in its archives ready to be accessed, enabling them to be watched
and reviewed at the users' discretion.
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Other useful features...
Tools
For those already trading in the Forex market, FXstreet.com built the Tools section
including several gadgets designed to optimize profit and time as the PIP USD value
calculator, the Money Management calculator or the Spread Cost calculator. The
“When2Convert” tool is a currency converter that also lets you set up email alerts to
warn you when currencies are reaching a target.
FXStudies
FXstudies is FXstreet.com's new free tool which gathers a great quantity of widgets from
the best content of our website.
You can customize those widgets so they fit your needs to create your own personalized
FX page.
Brokers Section
An innovative comparative table offers to the traders a comprehensive way to choose
the best broker for their own trading style and situation. Only regulated brokers appear on
FXstreet.com list which guarantees that the FDM you could go with is reliable.
Network
ForexStreet.net is our social network where traders can interact with each other, share
trades and experiences, have their own blogs, participate in forum discussions or chat
while they trade Forex. http://www.forexstreet.net/
The content team
All the contents are written, edited and managed by a team of 20 economic journalists
and 3 FX experts that work from different parts of the globe to offer the most complete FX
information and follow-up 24/5.