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Markets are often unpredictable and never cease to surprise us. Nevertheless, last week our clients were able to take the situation under control, and showed great results.  

Here are the numbers for the past trading week of the 27th of February through the 3rd of March.

The most active client

Placed 1217 trades, including 671 profitable ones and 546 that resulted in a loss. The majority of trades involved AUD/CAD, CHF/JPY and EUR/CHF.

Maximum deposit growth

For one trading week on a single account was $25 240,00.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$23 495,00. The trade was opened on the 18th of November 2016 at  09:04, closed — 27th of February at 21:56.

The list of the most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders:

#6E — EURUSD futures. It is the most liquid currency futures, trade volume of which reaches hundreds of thousands of contracts a day. The contract size is 125 000 euro. Minimum price step (1 pip) is $0,0001 for 1 euro or $12,5 per contract.

#CT — Cotton futures. Traded on ICE. The contract size is 50 000 pounds (around 22,68 tons). One pip is 0,01 and costs $18,75. ​

#HO — Heating oil futures. Traded on NYMEX. The contract size is 42 000 gallons. Minimum price fluctuation: $0,0001 per gallon.

#LUKOIL («Лукойл») — A Russian oil company. The company’s primary activities - exploration, production and refining of oil and natural gas, selling oil and oil products. Takes the second place, after Gazprom, based on the company’s revenue in Russia ( year 2014).

#CSCO (Cisco) — American transnational company. The company develops and sells network equipment for large organizations and telecommunications companies. It is one of world’s largest companies on the high-tech market. In the US Cisco traditionally joins the list of the 100 best employers by Forbes magazine.

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On the 22nd and 23rd of February Grand Capital, alongside with its partner, a software provider UpTrader, participated in the 10th iFX Expo 2017.

Giancarlo Spinnato, Head of GC LTD:

«This year's expo hosted a record number of visitors and interesting meetings. It seemed like everybody was there. It shows how attractive China is for brokers and IT companies. Europe has already seen the boom in popularity of Forex, but it has just started in China. That is why the potential of the region is immense. I think that those who will be able to penetrate Chinese market will be awarded with great success."

The expo took place in Hong Kong and welcomed 2700 attendees from 70 countries. Around 80 brokerages, liquidity providers, payment systems, software developers presented their services to the visitors.

A lot of attention was paid to innovations and software products. During the expo, and UpTrader, the company which develops web resources and software for brokerage companies, met to discuss a possible collaboration on Advanced trading platform popularization.

In the beginning of February we launched a photo contest on our official Facebook page. For the past three weeks our Facebook fans had been sharing their perspective on the image of an ideal trader by posting creative photos of themselves and/or their friends .

As always, we thank all the contestants! The contest has ended, the winners have been announced and the bonus prizes are ready to be granted.

Our judges tried to choose the most memorable and funny photos.

Meet the winners of our first creative contest this year:

• 1st place and $200: Latifah Ziraba

• 2nd place and $150: Jerry Ditshego

• 3rd place and $100: Regan Jeya Antony

To learn more about the rules of our Facebook contests click here.

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$26 000,00 — the maximum deposit growth last week. With February coming to an end, we wich everyone profitable trading this spring! In the meantime, meet the numbers for the trading week of February 20th – 24th.  

The most active client

Placed 1222 trades, including 692 profitable ones and 530 that resulted in a loss. The majority of trades involved  AUD/CAD, CHF/JPY, AUD/JPY paris.           

Maximum deposit growth

In one week on a single account was $26 000,00.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$8 201,00. The trade was opened on the 16th of February at 2:07PM and closed on the 20th of February at 6:25PM.

The most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders:

#GC — gold futures. Traded on COMEX. Contract volume: 100 troy ounces (around  3,11 kg). Minimum price step: $0,10 per ounce ($10,00 per contract). The amount of gold that has been mined globally is 150 thousand tons. 20% belongs to governments, 55% is owned by individuals in a form of jewelry, 12% is utilized in manufacturing and around 16% is in investments.

#T​F — Russell 2000 futures mini contract. Traded on ICE. One pip is  0,1 and costs $10. Russell 2000 index is reflecting the dynamics of 2 000 second-tier companies that are in the bottom of the list of the 3 000 largest public companies listed in the US stock exchanges.

#ZS — Soybean futures. One of the oldest and most popular futures contracts. Traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange as well as on Globex. A contract volume is 5000 bushels. Minimum price step is 0,25 cents and consts $12,5.

#MECHEL  — Russian mining and metals company. The company unites producers of coal, iron ore and steel products.  The products are sold in Russia and overseas.

#VZ (Verizon Communications) — American telecommunications company. In 2016 it was the largest companies in the US based on market capitalization and the largest in the world after China Mobile.

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Our weekly recap uncovers secrets: which currency pairs were used by the most active trader of the week, which trade was the most successful and other interesting numbers and facts. Check and compare! 

Here are the results of the trading week 13th – 17th of February:

The most active client

Placed 1280 trades, including 692 profitable ones and 588 that resulted in a loss. The majority of trades involved CHF/JPY, AUD/CAD and EUR/GBP.          

Maximum deposit growth

In one trading week on a single account was $46 866,00.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$13 400,00. The trade was opened on the 26th of January at 10:17PM and closed on the 15th of February at 3:41PM. 

The most interesting instruments chosen by traders:

#CL —  Light Sweet Crude Oil futures. Traded on NYMEX. Contract volume: 1 000 barrels (42 000 gallons). Minimum price step: $0,01 per barrel ($10,00 per contract);

#DX — US Dollar index futures. Traded on electronic platform of ICE.​ The contract size is calculated according to the formula: $1 000, multiplied by the index quote. 1 pip is 0,005 index points and equals $5,00;

#FDAX — DAX index futures. Traded on EUREX​.​ DAX  is the Germany's most important index. It is a capitalization-weighted index . 1 pip is 0,5 unit  and costs €12,50;

#LENTA («Лента») — Russian hypermarket chain, leader in Russia, based on the number of retail space and and fifth largest in terms of revenue (2015). Lenta operates 190 stores in 77 cities of Russia and 50 stores in Moscow city; 

#TRV (The Travelers Companies) — one of the largest US insurance companies, present in Dow Jones Industrial Average. Market capitalization: 34 billion USD (August 2016).

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