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After gaining world-wide recognition for its wildly popular MT4 (Metatrader 4) client terminal, MetaQuotes has chosen to capitalize off of this success with the next generation of its trading software: MT5.  Read more

Setting up, registering, and configuring your brokerage may seem like a lot of work, but once you launch your brokerage, you also need customers. Marketing your brokerage can easily turn a bottomless money-sucking pit that spits out only a few qualified leads if you don’t know what you are doing. Through our research we have discovered a few easy (and cheap!) ways to market your brokerage along with the best websites and venues to do so. Read more

“How do I get a white label?” is a question we are often asked at Tripeak.  Because we are a technology provider and not a brokerage, a white label in the purest sense is not one of our product offerings.   Read more

When starting a new brokerage an important consideration is the risk model the firm will adopt.  For those new to this industry, a risk model is simply the way a brokerage will manage the trading volume it receives from its traders. Read more

Transaction costs in Forex, is the “elephant in the room” when evaluating the performance of a trading account. While all traders are aware of it, many and money managers still manage to underestimate how significant of an impact transactions costs can have on their overall profitability. Read more

The decision to begin your own brokerage could be the logical step in the FX progression or a lifelong dream.  There are many different reasons why to start your own brokerage, but if your operation is not set up correctly, your brokerage could lose money and ultimately your investment.  Read more

FIX (Financial Information Exchange) API (application programming interface)  is an electronic communications protocol for financial information exchange. Read more

I often get questions from our clients regarding the API and the benefits it can bring to their business. An API (Application Programming Interface) is basically a set of rules that is needed to communicate with a specific system. Read more

IT’S A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
When brokers move from using MetaQuotes MT4 Dealing desk to a straight through processing (STP) model, the first question we often get is, “What’s the difference between Net based reporting used by the prime broker and the ticket based reporting used by MT4?” Read more

When starting a new Forex brokerage or an investment fund, a logical question arises – what is the best location to incorporate and license the future business. Read more