{"id":19735,"date":"2011-02-22T11:33:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=19735"},"modified":"2011-02-22T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:33:57","slug":"currensee-hits-2-billion-milestone-in-volume-traded-through-trade-leaders-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/22\/currensee-hits-2-billion-milestone-in-volume-traded-through-trade-leaders-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Currensee Hits $2 Billion Milestone in Volume Traded through Trade Leaders Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Program grows in popularity as innovative alternative investment\u00a0in world currency markets<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The International Traders Expo New York, Feb. 22, 2011<\/strong> \u2013 Today, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.currensee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Currensee<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.currensee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.currensee.com<\/a>)<\/span>,  the alternative investment service that gives investors unique access  to the world currency markets, announced that more than $2 billion in  volume has been traded through its recently launched <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.currensee.com\/invest\/how-it-works\" target=\"_blank\">Trade Leaders\u2122 Investment Program<\/a>.<\/span> This milestone demonstrates the growing interest in the world\u2019s currency markets as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneyshow.com\/tradeshow\/new_york\/traders_Expo\/workshop_details.asp?wid=AFB831F538C74B748AD957387011FDC7\" target=\"_blank\">viable alternative asset class<\/a>, a topic being addressed by CEO Dave Lemont at the International Traders Expo in New York this week.<\/p>\n<p>Core to the growth of the program is the performance of Currensee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currensee.com\/leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\">Trade Leaders<\/a>,  an exclusive group of top foreign exchange (Forex) traders hand-picked  from the growing Currensee social network. Trade Leaders must pass a  rigorous series of performance and risk assessments before being  accepted into the program. The program continues to attract traders who  believe they are the next great Trade Leaders. Currensee has reviewed  more than 1,000 Trade Leader applications, of which less than 2 percent  have been accepted into the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s  been missing from Forex trading and investing has been the  transparency,\u201d said Martin Huff-Kotkom of Janus Trading, a top Currensee  Trade Leader. \u201cThe Currensee Trade Leaders Investment Program removes  the mystery so that anyone can take advantage of the currency markets.  The investors who chose to follow Janus Trading and replicate our trades  have open access to our trading strategies and performance charts and  can see their trades in real-time. It\u2019s exciting to make our success  their success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The  performance of Trade Leaders forms the foundation of this  first-of-its-kind service for self-directed investors seeking investment  options that are not correlated to the stock market. The Trade Leaders program  enables investors to leverage the expertise of Trade Leaders by  automatically replicating the trades of selected traders, and was  launched <a href=\"http:\/\/currensee.com\/tradeleaderspress\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 29, 2010<\/a>.  In the six months ending January 2011, Trade Leaders cumulatively  returned 62.1 percent, compared to the S&amp;P 500, which returned just  16.4 percent. It is important to keep in mind that investor  returns may vary from Trade Leader returns based on a variety of factors  such as slippage, fees, broker spreads, volatility or other market  conditions.<\/p>\n<p>More  than 1,500 trades per day are being executed through the Currensee  Intelligent Trade Replication Technology\u2122, a sophisticated trade  automation engine powered by proprietary algorithms and designed to  precisely manage the timing and round-turn execution of trades to ensure  investors receive a price as close as possible to the Trade Leader\u2019s  price. Investors have real-time access to their Trade Leaders portfolio,  can see all executed trades in a single dashboard view and benefit from  interactive performance charts and metrics to measure their success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I like the most about the Currensee Trade Leaders program is the transparency it delivers,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois Tremblay, an individual investor in the Trade Leaders Investment Program. \u201cCurrensee gives me direct access to the currency markets,  and I can trust the experts to make the trade decisions but I\u2019m still  in the driver\u2019s seat with complete control over my portfolio. The  website makes it easy for me to track my performance and see how I\u2019m  doing at any time. The best part is that I am seeing results, and the Currensee team has outstanding focus on client profitability and service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave  Lemont, CEO of Currensee, said: \u201cThe time has come for the world\u2019s  currency markets to earn their recognition as a viable alternative asset  class. The foreign exchange market is a viable alternative to investing  in stocks, bonds or other traditional investments, as it is truly  uncorrelated to the S&amp;P, gold and other major indices. Through the  Currensee Trade Leaders Investment Program, we\u2019ve opened up the currency  markets to more than 250 investors from almost 50 countries and hitting  the $2 billion traded mark in such a short period of time is momentous  for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Currensee<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.currensee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Currensee<\/a> is  the alternative investment service that puts the power of world  currency markets in the hands of every investor. With the Currensee  Trade Leaders\u2122 Investment Program, investors build their own automated  trading portfolios of Trade Leaders, top foreign currency traders hand  picked from the thousands of members of the Currensee social network.  The program offers investors an alternative to traditional asset classes  and Trade Leader performance is completely uncorrelated to the stock  market. Currensee delivers complete account control to investors, who  can see every trade in real time, manage and modify investment  allocations with one click and benefit from the safety and security of  proprietary online investing technology. Currensee is funded by North  Bridge Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital and Vernon &amp; Park  Capital and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) and  registered by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). For more  information, visit us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currensee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.currensee.com<\/a>. Find us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/currensee\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/currensee\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and watch us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Currensee1\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please  note that over the counter retail foreign currency (Forex) trading may  involve significant risk of loss. It is not suitable for all investors  and you should make sure you understand the risks involved before  trading, and seek independent advice if necessary. Performance,  strategies and charts shown are not necessarily predictive of any  particular result. Past performance is no indication of future results.  Investor returns may vary from Trade Leader returns based on slippage,  fees, broker spreads, volatility or other market conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Currensee (www.currensee.com), the alternative investment service that gives investors unique access to the world currency markets, announced that more than $2 billion in volume has been traded through its recently launched Trade Leaders\u2122 Investment Program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}