e-Forex talks with Mariusz Potaczala, CEO of Dom Maklerski TMS Brokers S.A. (TMS) one of the first financial advisory and brokerage institutions in Poland to specialise in currency and money market operations.

Retail Foreign Exchange Trading has been on the rise for the past five years and remained fully operational during the financial crisis, outperforming most other asset classes. As a result of this, the Forex Educational market has developed and is now set to take centre stage in the next growth phase. One of the fundamental reasons for the increase in popularity of FX training is that it is available to a wider scope of trader, from the beginner to the seasoned professional, and can be undertaken in a variety of methods and flexible times, something that has enhanced its popularity among both retail and professional institutional FX traders.

e-Forex talks to Ramzi Chamat, CEO of Tadawul FX Ltd, a leading Swiss forex broker who recently relocated their headquarters to Cyprus.

Shaken confidence in global markets and various banks in particular has led to a lack of liquidity - at times even in the major currencies. For example, there were times in late September when spreads widened considerably in the interbank market even for the largest currency pairs such as EURUSD, reflecting a low appetite for risk and general nervousness in the market.

Stephane Leroy, Head of global Sales & Marketing at QuantHouse discusses how various types of trading technology are facilitating the evolution away from discretionary trading.

The growth of electronically traded FX options by retail traders, both over the counter and on-exchange, is already taking off as more sophisticated retail investors look for new trading and hedging opportunities. In response, brokers and banks are rapidly developing e-FX trading platforms that support and educate investors about the different products and trading styles available, and FX options is being pitched as the fastest growing new revenue stream in FX.

In recent years the trading world has seen some great changes. Many of those changes have come in the form of technological advances making it not only easier for traders to execute trades, but also providing tools to compute seemingly complex formulas and techniques into very definable and tradable methods. These advances in technology have made it possible for traders to begin to tap into the power of the world’s largest market, foreign currency exchange, like they have never been able to in the past. My focus in this article is to describe how using a non-linear approach to trading the markets will improve your profitability and allow you to trade with a relaxed attitude and great confidence.

With Dr Richard Olsen, Chairman and CEO of Olsen, Thomas Parry, Director of Algorithmic trading at Plimsoll Capital, Jonathan Webb, Portfolio manager at C-View

Godfried De Vidts looks at the advantages that the FX market offers retail investors.

Heather McLean interviews a selection of online FX brokers to see how e-trading technology is impacting on their relationships with clients.

We talk with Vladan Jovanovic about how his technology and trading firm arbitrages the latency and matching algorithms of futures exchanges.

5 major online FX trading providers discuss the issues.

Rick Sears examines the potential impact of bringing the two largest pools of buyers and sellers into one unified trading environment.

Ahmed Nasirwarraich, discusses how currency traders can now reap the benefits of wireless technology by using their cell phones, palm pilots or personal digital assistants (PDA's).

Effective training, particularly in the technology involved, is key for anyone trading FX online. Andy Shearman talks about some of the methods involved.

The retail FX trader can now benefit from many of the tools and techniques previously only available to the professional market. Tim Finch tells us more.

Daniel Harvey traces how recent technological advances now permit the application of powerful and computationally intensive numerical methods to foreign exchange data.