FXCM Improves Order Execution in October

FX and CFD broker, FXCM Group published its monthly execution data report today, including order execution at price, execution with positive slippage, execution with negative slippage, and average execution speed.

The broker reported improvement in order execution at price as 60.4% of orders were executed at price compared to 56.8% in September. The company also marked a drop in orders executed with negative slippage from 15.1% in September to 14.2% in October.

FXCM reported a dip in orders executed with positive slippage as the number dropped from 28.1% in September to 25.3% in October. Additionally, average execution speed increased from 24 milliseconds in September to 28 milliseconds in October.

Although New York-based FX and CFD trading provider reported mixed results in October regarding execution data, the company showed a marked improvement in order execution at the price while provided negative results related to the average execution time.

Spreads

Moreover, the broker released data related to spreads of different financial instruments, including Cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrencies By using cryptography, virtual currencies, known as cryptocurrencies, are nearly counterfeit-proof digital currencies that are built on blockchain technology. Comprised of decentralized networks, blockchain technology is not overseen by a central authority.Therefore, cryptocurrencies function in a decentralized nature which theoretically makes them immune to government interference. The term, cryptocurrency derives from the origin of the encryption techniques that are employed to secure the netw By using cryptography, virtual currencies, known as cryptocurrencies, are nearly counterfeit-proof digital currencies that are built on blockchain technology. Comprised of decentralized networks, blockchain technology is not overseen by a central authority.Therefore, cryptocurrencies function in a decentralized nature which theoretically makes them immune to government interference. The term, cryptocurrency derives from the origin of the encryption techniques that are employed to secure the netw Read this Term, commodities, and FX pairs. FXCM reported mixed results in terms of spreads in the month of October. Though, the company reported an average active trader peak spread of 30.1 on BTC/USD in October compared to 29.2 in September this year. While the spread of Ethereum and Litecoin remained unchanged, the broker showed improvement in NAS100 as the spread dropped from 1.2 in September to 1.1 in October. For FX pairs, the spread remained the same for EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and AUD/USD at 0.1, 0.3, and 0.2, respectively.

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Finance Magnates earlier reported about the launch of a free SMS service for trading alerts by FXCM.