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While this blog is not about politics per se, the question of whether or not the European Union will manage to survive and thrive is very much on the mind of investors in the stock and Forex markets. That's because Europe as a whole is an important market and is one which is necessary to maintaining a healthy world economy. However, the recent Euro shocks have meant that people are once again asking whether the experiment of an integrated Europe can survive. Here's what you need to know:

Although binary options trading is commonly considered one of the quickest ways to profit from the market, OptionBit, a leading binary options platform, is challenging traditional notions about binary options trading by offering a new feature called "?End of Month Trading" which allows traders to take advantage of market fluctuations up until the end of the month, and to profit substantially in the process.

?The dear leader, aka Kim Jong Il is dead and with him goes the tenuous stability that North Korea had existed under for the past few years. The North Korean dictator's son, Kim Jung Un will likely succeed his father as leader of the rogue state, however questions remain as to whether or not this will mean more instability in an important part of the world or less instability. It's too early to tell for certain, but here are some of the possible scenarios:

FXCM has recently published its performance metrics for November 2011 as it pertains to both retail Forex traders and institutional trading. We weren't at all surprised to see that the company's trading volume is higher than October 2011, and we question whether this has anything to do with the fact that FXCM recently launched its mobile FXCM or are considering testing out this brokerage, you may be interested to see how their clientele and trade volume expands on a monthly basis.

Is anyone really surprised that the Eurozone is still facing problems? Yes, the 17 nations who use the Euro agreed last week to in essence do what they had originally agreed to do when the Euro was first created – live within their means. However, for all that they all pledged to do it before and then pledged to do it again in the most recent round of talks, it's not the least bit surprising that investors are having trouble taking them at their word. Here's what you need to need to know:

Limited Securities which is based out of Kanagawa, Japan. Though it's been available for about 2 years, we recently discovered this app and were highly impressed not only with its real-time currency rates, but with the way that it presents the information so that it's accessible to traders in a variety of ways.

Since launching this blog, I've had the pleasure to interview several fascinating Forex traders and Forex trading coaches, but rarely do I get to interview the masterminds behind an entire Forex brokerage - the pioneers creative enough not just to build up an existing brokerage, but to create their own from the ground up.

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