Exclusive: Valutrades to Launch Cryptocurrency CFDs

London-based broker Valutrades is working on launching its own cryptocurrency CFDs, according to a LinkedIn post published by its CEO, Graeme Watkins.

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Valutrades is an ECN broker offering forex, CFDs, and commodities trading through the MT4 platform.

The announcement follows similar ones from a plethora of brokers. Since the launch of Bitcoin futures trading on the CBOE and CME Group exchanges in the US, foreign exchange companies have been eager to cash in on the popular asset. Other brokers that have recently begun to offer such contracts include ThinkMarkets, Libertex, ICM Capital, ADS Securities, and easyMarkets.

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Some brokers now pay much less for leads who are only interested in cryptocurrency trading, and others have actually begun to close down their cryptocurrency CFD offers entirely.

Responding to a request for comment, Watkins said: "We went live just now with BTC/USD, ETH/USD, and LTC/USD, plus the crosses ETH/BTC and LTC/BTC. We are indeed looking at Ripple too at this time and if the launch goes fine we will roll these out over the coming week.

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Valutrades is registered by the FCA. We most recently wrote about the firm when it partnered with Hummingbird to offer trading via mobile phone.

Watkins held a seminar at the 2017 Finance Magnates London Summit on the subject of trader activity and ROI.