ITech Capital, a Russian private equity fund, has invested $ 3 million in the development of TradingView, a social trading platform. The platform brings together traders and investors around the world. As part of the investment round, TradingView received $ 3.6 million from Tech Capital, a group of Chicago-based businessmen Irish Angels and TechStars.
TradingView is a social trading platform. Users share real-time ideas and experiences and analyze information from the market. The project earns on paid accounts with access to extended trading sessions, automatic alerts on attractive assets.
TradingView will direct the funds received to launch new products, create platform versions in forty languages, strengthen the channel of monetization and connect new sources of quotes and stock information,
Kommersant writes .
At the end of May, the
eToro social trading platform was launched in Russia. Participants manage an investment portfolio, close and open positions, place bids and can copy the actions of other traders. More than four million users are registered on the platform. The platform is co-owner of SBT Venture Capital - Sberbank Venture Fund. SBT Venture Capital together with the Chinese Ping An in November 2014 invested $ 27 million in eToro.
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For 2014, the volume of transactions of individuals in the FOREX market decreased by 20%. Leading players: Alpari - 120.0 thousand clients (28.3% of the market), Forex Club - 71.8 thousand (16.9%), Teletrade - 61.5 thousand (14.5%).