The most important professional relationship you will have in forex trading will be with your broker.
Most of the forex brokers listed below are great for beginners traders & some only require a small minimum deposit to start trading.
This is ideal for those traders who wish to practice learning trading. It takes a long time to master and perfect the art and its better to try with a small account, which you can afford to lose then with a large trading account.
Others offer free training and regular webinars to help with your education and to understand what the market is doing at the moment.
More advanced traders looking for ECN, STP or NND brokers can find them here too. Their offers include narrow spreads, free Forex VPS services to qualifying traders or trading via an API for lightning fast connection to the trading servers.
Below you will find links to all our broker partners. Most are regulated in South Africa by the FSCA and you can feel confident in trading with them.
| TradeNation | Exness | FxPrimus | XM | BDSwiss |
| Dukascopy | JustForex | Forex Time | CM Trading |

Risk comes back into fashion as stocks rose in Europe and US; commodity prices rebounded, including copper & oil. Commodity and oil-related currencies also gained the most, while safe-haven JPH and CHF lost ground

Mixed NFP brings no further clarity. Headline payrolls number misses expectations, falls below 200k.

The rebound in oil is because OPEC is willing to talk to non OPEC countries to limit production. Price is likely to fall further. China’s manufacturing PMI fell into a contraction.

You have to trust your broker, in any financial transaction. To build trust, it’s customary in the financial trading industry for independent third parties to act as regulatory overseers. A good example of such a regulator is the South African Financial Services Board (FSB),

With the Chinese economy faltering investors were hoping for a Chinese fiscal stimulus package but the country devalued it’s currency instead.

Watch Marshall talking about the latest news movings currencies and other markets around the world.

Market’s reversed from the trend of the past while with gold, oil and a host of other commodities lower all sparked off by the weaker than expected annual revisions to US Industrial Productions. If China is already slowing down, what does the impact of a slowing down US economy have on the world economy?

The FED’s fund rate expectation is lower but the dollar gained yesterday probably on new dollar long positions now that the Greek debt crisis seems to be solved for now. Commodity prices fell, Canada cut rates and oil prices fell too.

The dollar weakened yesterday on weak economic data from the US. The markets are looking towards the Fed’s testimony to congress. Markets are expecting normalisation to happen next year. Bank of Japan kept their QE program unchanged.

Within hours of the announcement of a new bailout deal that keeps Greece within the eurozone twitter was awash with the #ThisISACoup hashtag.