Darwinex UnCut

Darwinex has had a very clear ethos from its beginning. It's embodied by our logo featuring an owl (predator) and our animal avatars (evolution).

But let's face it, we haven't been able to bring this message through. Again and again, the market perceives us as a run-of-the-mill MT4 broker. Or, even worse, as a "social" trading / investing site.

Our recent experience with Wikipedia editors only confirmes it.

We want to change this. We've started working on Darwinex's repositioning on the financial landscape. In this video, Darwinex CEO Juan Colón shares in which direction we'll move. We still have to make a lot of decisions. E.g. create separate brands for the FX/CFD broker, the coming IB integration and the asset manager?

But we've distilled the foundations of the repositioning. Learn about it in this video and share your feedback.

Join our community of alpha providers and alpha seekers at https://community.darwinex.com/.

Join the Darwinex Collective Slack Workspace for Algorithmic R&D:

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In this episode, Darwinex CEO Juan Colón and CDS Ali Saif talk about the relevance of the % of clients that lost money in the last year, an information CFD-providing brokers are obliged to publish and update every 3 months, as an input when picking a broker.

*** Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130 ***

A well-meaning but somehow misguided effort by the regulator to take vulnerable people out of trading, this measure ignores that every trader who eventually becomes successful, needs to learn to trade first. And that during this period of learning, will lose money.

Juan analyses to what extent a broker can influence the performance of its traders, highlighting also the role of transaction costs and volatility on trader performance. ESMA's 2018 leverage limitation receives due credit as the real game changer when it comes to reducing client losses.

n this episode, Juan Colón - CEO @Darwinex - talks about the psychological, financial, circumstantial and emotional impact and side effects on traders, of the WAY the retail trading industry has been run by most brokers so far.

*** Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130 ***

He details historically, how him and his brother Javier Colón (co-founder of Darwinex) embarked on setting up Tradeslide back in the day, to empower traders to become better traders.

But the industry was full of brokers at the time who simply weren't interested at large in the same vision.

To be a venue that attracted "Alphas" - traders with the attitude, motivation and drive required to improve and succeed - Tradeslide NEEDED to become its own Agency Broker and hence CREATE the fair, level playing field that was missing in the retail trading industry, particularly in retail Forex / FX at the time.

The brokerage arm of Darwinex was hence born.

We are typically our clients' 3rd or 4th broker - and this is good for us (in one sense) because before getting to us, people have already had unfavourable experiences with most others and immediately appreciate the difference we bring to the table.

But historically, Traders should never have had to experience systematic exposure to conditions biased entirely in brokers' financial interest, ever. This industry norm to date has created psychological imbalance among traders on a grand scale.

We see too much in the way of distrust, discontent, bitterness and suspicion towards brokers as a result (Darwinex included).

The only way we have to make our case, that we are NOT in the business of profiting from people's misfortune, that we ARE in the business of empowering traders to succeed, is by giving them the tools and the level playing field necessary TO succeed.

But to accomplish this mission, Darwinex needs traders to viralize our message, to spread the word as far and wide as they can.

As an Agency Broker, Trader success IS our lifeblood at Darwinex, and the only thing that drives our growth - NOT sales, NOT buying traffic, NOT introducing brokers, NOT affiliate marketers.

To help us accomplish this difficult mission, of leveling the playing field while empowering talented Alphas to succeed and attract the capital necessary to SCALE their trading activity, Darwinex NEEDS YOU to grow this movement WITH us.

Darwinex relies EXCLUSIVELY on organic acquisition as a result.

If you're an Alpha, if you're a serious Trader looking to scale your game to the next level, to turn your talent into a scarce commodity where investors compete to back YOU with capital..

.. help Darwinex spread the word, and do it with gusto, with all your might!

Because YOU deserve it.

In this episode, Juan Colón - CEO @Darwinex - talks about what it means to be an "Alpha" (an individual with an attitude and zeal for continuous improvement), why Darwinex is home to every Alpha in existence, and how the Darwinex Community Forum serves as a base for Alphas to share in their collective growth and that of Darwinex.

He shares some historical context into what led Darwinex to acquiring a Broker license from the FCA back in the day, how the world really didn't need "yet another broker" at the time, but did in fact need Darwinex as the "last ever broker" you'd ultimately arrive at and stay for good, in your quest for trading / investing success.

Before Traders arrive at Darwinex (we are typically their 3rd or 4th broker) they've usually been through and experienced the brokerage industry enough to develop bitter personalities... or grown into "Alphas".

Darwinex, the Trader Movement and its Community Forum are home to Alphas.

Because at Darwinex, we ourselves are "Alphas".

Join our community at https://www.darwinex.com/

In this session, Juan Colon - CEO @Darwinex talks about why Darwinex charges higher swaps than market makers do.

*** Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130 ***

He describes this in the context of how - as an Agent - Darwinex is passing on the flow of risk from the client onward to the broader market, to external counter-parties that take on the other side of clients' trades (i.e. make the market they're trading), and how swaps factor into the picture.

Visit the Darwinex Community Forum to check out the whole Brokernomics series: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130

In this session, Juan Colon - CEO @Darwinex explains what Swaps are, why and how they are charged to traders.

*** Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130 ***

Leveraging publicly available information, Juan also sheds light on important considerations for the retail trading industry at large as regards swaps and transaction costs in general.

Visit our community forum at https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130/9

In late 2017, we embarked on a series of algorithmic trading tutorials that fast became a movement of its own.

What started off as a Pythonic solution for those not using MetaTrader's built-in MQL programming language to be able to access Darwinex liquidity via Python, became an open source project rich in code, examples and even multi-OS Docker images packaged and distributed by passionate algorithmic and quant community groups!

Three years on in 2020, we still see the same enthusiasm and passion for algorithmic R&D among users of the DWX ZeroMQ Connector project as we first observed in 2017 when it was launched, the first of its kind addressing a complex need with a free, open source solution.

Here is the podcast version of the VERY first webinar where the project was introduced in its bare bones state.. and from there on developed into what it is today.

Enjoy!

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In this presentation, we demonstrate how to build a communications bridge between trading strategies written in non-MQL programming languages (e.g. Python, R, Java, C++, etc), using ZeroMQ.

ZeroMQ is a distributed messaging and concurrency framework, using which traders can create sophisticated distributed trading architecture otherwise difficult to implement in MQL.

It also therefore allows traders to send instructions to MetaTrader 4 from outside the platform, and leverage the features of non-MQL environments (e.g. Machine Learning toolkits in Python/R) to create more sophisticated trading strategies for execution via MetaTrader 4.

Get the latest updates to the DWX-ZeroMQ-Connector project, troubleshoot your applications, give and get help from fellow algorithmic traders and more, over at the Darwinex Collective Slack Workspace:

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In this segment, Juan Colón - CEO @Darwinex talks about the technology stack used by Darwinex in processing tens of billions of $$$ worth of our trading community's order flow every month.

He describes in visual detail how data moves through our Hosting, Trading Platforms and Aggregation Engine layers.

You’re encouraged to send your questions and comments related to this series via voice message (https://www.speakpipe.com/Darwinex) or on our community forum: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130/7

In this segment, Juan Colón - CEO @Darwinex - answers one of the most frequent questions we receive from the trading community:

Do CFD's move the market?

Juan emphasizes the need to understand what CFDs are and how they operate, going through a series of examples demonstrating what exchange actually takes place during CFD transactions, and under what circumstances CFDs could indeed move the market.

You’re encouraged to send your questions and comments related to this series via voice message (https://www.speakpipe.com/Darwinex) or on our community forum: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130/6?u=bianka

In this video, Juan Colón - CEO @Darwinex - continues our detailed conversations centered around how a broker really works on the inside. Specifically, he talks about:

1) Client retention in terms of both users and equity, why it is fundamental to the success of Darwinex and the TraderMovement

2) Pre and post-ESMA impact on client outcomes, changes in the evolution of client equities and more

3) Why Darwinex has an Organic Growth strategy that relies on helping traders and investors become better versions of themselves, survive longer and further the reach of the ecosystem that is Darwinex, to the wider masses.

Juan goes through some very interesting thought experiments to make his point... viewers are encouraged to watch the video in its entirety for more details :)

In addition to Juan's inputs, Ali Saif (CDS @Darwinex as well as DARWIN Provider @integracore2 behind $PLF) briefly shares his experience as a trader of roughly 14 years.

He describes the early days of not knowing nor understanding how the markets nor trading truly worked, blowing accounts, experiencing various psychological dispositions from euphoria to disappointment etc... to how he evolved over time not just as a trader, but as an individual in the process... lessons that can only be learned by going through the process.