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MB Trading Financial Services Wins Top Rating in Barron’s Review
(El Segundo, CA) – March 17, 2010 – Manhattan Beach Trading Financial Services, Inc. (“MBTFS”) and MB Trading Futures, Inc. (“MBTF”) (collectively “MB Trading”), which is a technology-driven, low-commission brokerage specializing in order routing in FOREX, Equities, Futures, and Options through various global exchanges and electronic networks, announced today that it earned the top four and a half star rating in Barron’s 2010 review of on-line brokers.
“Once again, we’ve demonstrated that we can strike the proper balance of new technologies, low commission costs, robust research tools, and outstanding customer support,” said Ross Ditlove, CEO of MB Trading. “We took specific steps in 2009 to improve and extend each of these categories, and it clearly paid off against a high-powered field of competitors.”
MB Trading successfully launched their MBT World trading community which allows customers who trade all asset classes, to share their trading ideas and strategies as well as communicate their service and support needs to the firm. MB Trading’s entire suite of trading applications was updated during 2009, including the software-based, Web-based, and wireless trading applications. More than 100 new features were added since the 2009 Barron’s review, many of them coming from the company’s community of traders who suggest new features via an on-line idea submission and voting area.
MB Trading won and tied for top honors in several major categories, including Best for Frequent Traders, Best for Options Traders, Trade Experience, Usability, and Portfolio Analysis & Reports. Only two firms earned the top rating of four and a half stars overall. The total field included 22 firms.
“We’re very pleased with the review,” said David Lipsett, Executive Vice President of MB Trading. “We take pride in offering products and services that meet the needs of active traders. As a privately-held firm, we select our development projects carefully. This year in particular, we put our resources into giving our customers more options and more interconnectivity through community-based features, and that decision clearly paid off. Traders benefit from being able to learn from other more experienced traders who are willing to share their positions and trading logic.”
MB Trading also received recognition for its international appeal for its innovation and services in the growing FOREX market place. MBT’s Forex ECN solution brings full transparency to what has been a predominantly dealer-centric market place. In 2009, MBT blended the popular MetaTrader 4 platform to its proprietary execution services. In addition, the company has benefitted from making its execution, quoting, and automated account management available via various software development kits and APIs for developers to automate their trading systems.
About MB Trading:
Securities products are offered through Manhattan Beach Trading Financial Services, Inc. (“MBTFS”), member FINRA, SIPC. MB Trading Futures, Inc. (“MBTF”) is a CFTC registered FCM and member of NFA. MBTF offers execution and settlement services for futures based products, as well as offer off-exchange foreign currency (forex) products through MB Trading.
DisclosuresTrading in FOREX, Securities, Futures, and Options is speculative in nature and not appropriate for all investors. Investors should only use risk capital when trading FOREX, Securities, Futures, and Options because there is always the risk of substantial loss. The high degree of leverage that is often obtainable in FOREX and Futures trading because of the small margin requirement can work against you as well as for you. Leverage can lead to large losses as well as gains. Account access, trade executions and system response may be adversely affected by market conditions, quote delays, system performance and other factors, including factors related to the use of automated systems.
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All inquiries can be directed to: David Lipsett - d.lipsett@mbtrading.com
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March 17, 2010 - MB Trading Financial Services Wins Top Rating in Barron’s Review
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December 1, 2009 - MB Trading Lowers FOREX Commission Rate to $2.95 per 100,000 USD
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October 1, 2009 - MB Trading Launches MetaTrader 4 with True ECN Execution.
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September 22, 2009 – MB Trading Expands Intraday Futures Margin to 4-to-1.
(El Segundo, CA) – September 22, 2009 –Manhattan Beach Trading Financial Services, Inc. (“MBTFS”), a technology-driven, low-commission brokerage specializing in order routing in Equities, Futures, and Options through various global exchanges and electronic networks, announced Tuesday that it now offers 4-to-1 intraday margin leverage on all futures contracts offered by the firm.
August 5, 2009 – MB Trading Holdings, LLC has acquired ownership of WGAL, LLC, aka The Wizetrade Group
(El Segundo, CA) – August 5, 2009 – MB Trading Holdings, LLC, the parent company of Manhattan Beach Trading Financial Services, Inc. (“MBTFS”) and MB Trading Futures, Inc. (“MBTF”) (collectively “MB Trading”) which are technology-driven, low-commission brokerages specializing in order routing in FOREX, Equities, Futures, and Options through various global exchanges and electronic networks, announced Tuesday that it has acquired ownership of The Wizetrade Group.
March 18, 2009 – MB Trading Earns Top Rating in Barron’s 2009 Review of On-Line Brokers
(El Segundo, CA) – March 18, 2009 – MB Trading (“MBT”), a technology-driven, low-commission brokerage specializing in order routing in securities including Equities, Futures, FOREX, Bonds, and Options through various global exchanges, earned the highest rating given of 4.5 out of 5 stars in Barron’s 2009 Review of On-Line Brokers. MBT tied for first place in the trading technology category and was ranked second overall in a field of twenty-five competitors.
January 28, 2009 – MB Trading Launches MBT University
(El Segundo, CA) – January 28, 2009 – MB Trading (“MBT”), a technology-driven, low-cost brokerage specializing in order routing in securities, futures, foreign exchange instruments, bonds, and options through various global exchanges, announced today that it has launched its new website with a new on-line training facility MBT University. The University is a major enhancement designed to educate traders about all of the markets covered by the company’s Award-Winning* MBT Desktop software, as well as all of the third party tools that connect to MB Trading.
December 24, 2008 – MB Trading Adds Investment Research Services
(El Segundo, CA) – December 24, 2008 – MB Trading (“MBT”), a financial services company, announced today that it has added a leading investment research package to its list of offerings. Provided daily by Trading Central, the service will be free to MB Trading clients who have a live account. It includes research and technical analysis covering the equities, forex, and commodities markets.
November 4, 2008 – MB Trading Adds CME Livestock Contracts
(El Segundo, CA) – November 4, 2008 – MB Trading (“MBT”), a financial services company, announced today that it had made available three CME livestock symbols for futures customers. The contracts will be available on the company’s MBT Desktop software, Barron’s top-ranking platform in trading technology.
September 23, 2008 – MB Trading Adds Russell and Dollar Futures via ICE
(El Segundo, CA) – September 22, 2008 – MB Trading ("MBT"), a financial services company, announced today that it had completed integration with ICE, the Intercontinental Exchange. Recently, ICE announced that they would have the exclusive rights to the Russell 2000 and Russell 1000 futures contracts beginning after the September contract expired.
August 26, 2006 – MB Trading Expands Symbols, Adds COMEX Contracts to Offerings
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April 17, 2008 – MB Trading Achieves Top Ten Status for ETF Monthly Volume
(El Segundo, CA) – April 17, 2008 – MB Trading ("MBT"), a financial services company, announced Thursday that according to NASDAQ OMX Group, it ranked in the Top Ten of Market Participants for nine of the most actively traded Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in the month of February 2008. This marks a record for the company and places them in the top tier of trading platforms for a key piece of the index trading market.
March 1, 2008 – MB Trading Acquires EFX Group
(El Segundo, CA) – March 1, 2008 – MB Trading (Member FINRA, SIPC, NFA and CFTC), a leading provider of Forex, Futures, Equities and Options, has acquired its largest introducing agent (IA), EFX Group, LLC. Customers of EFX will be internalized under MB Trading. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.