World of Social Trading

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Nike is EVERYWHERE!

The “Swoosh” is among the most popular and easily recognized symbols in the world today. Whether you are a youngster, middle-aged, or from the older generation, one way or another, we have all come across the “Swoosh” symbol. NIKE is a globally recognized brand and one of the world’s largest suppliers in footwear, apparel and sports equipment.

eToro CFD Review Article

eToro is well known for introducing the concept of social trading into the forex retail trading community. Its social trading platform “Openbook” has proven extremely popular among forex traders as it helps to cut down a novice trader’s learning curve. Experienced traders or “Gurus” as they are known at eToro are also taking a shine to eToro “Openbook” as it allows them to earn additional revenue by sharing their trading experience among fellow traders within the Openbook’s social network. Nevertheless, Forex is not the only market that traders can trade in at eToro. Traders now also have the opportunity to trade in CFDs with eToro Openbook.

History of Trading – Part II: Controlling the Chaos

We will all remember the 20th century as a century of chaos and revolution, and this is also true for financial trading.

This is the century that saw the foundation of the Federal Reserve, stock investment becoming a mass-culture pursuit, the Great Depression, the introduction of the Bretton Woods system, the arrival of derivatives, and of course electronic trading.

eToro featured in The Sunday Times

As you may be aware, the mainstream media is becoming increasingly aware of the social investment phenomenon. Or in other words, Social Trading is not our little secret anymore.
Over the past few months eToro has been featured in The Financial Times, The Telegraph and Bloomberg TV, to mention a few. Now we’re proud to announce that recently The Sunday Times ran a feature piece about the eToro investment network as well!

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling Sunday newspaper in the UK, with a circulation of close to 1 million readers, which is equal to the circulation figures of the next 3 most popular Sunday papers combined. The article focuses in particular on our long time friend @santoshtiwari and his achievements, together with his wife Poornima, on the eToro network.

History of Trading – Part I: Bubbles, Booms and Busts

The history of financial trading is a history of bubbles.

The ancient principle, which still stands to this day, is buy when Commodities, Currencies or shares are cheap, and sell before the bubble bursts. Not surprisingly, the sluggish flow of information before the advent of the telegraph in the 19th century repeatedly led to the formation of bubbles. Several cases of irrational speculative behavior leading to spectacular price hikes followed by a sudden crash are documented in history, ever since the first incident, the Dutch tulip mania, ended in financial disaster in 1637.