Company News

Dear clients!

Starting from the 10th of January 2018 the commission percentage for cryptocurrency trading on ECN Prime account will be changed. Now the commission for trades will be 1.2% per side and 2.4% for round turn.

We remind you that our promotion To the Moon is active only until the 15th of January — trade cryptocurrency and get free Serenity tokens (nominal value of one token is 0.1 ETH).

Grand Capital team

Dear clients!

Rally trade, Drag Trade, Micro Trade and Future trade will not be running until the 5th of January. All contests will resume according to the usual schedule on the 8th of January 2018.

Grand Capital team

During 2017 we’ve seen the figures grow:

–   The company’s average monthly turnover has risen by 27% and now amounts to $6 billion.

–   The number of our clients has also grown by 40%. Now we service 455 149 people.

–   We have 15% more web partners. Now there are 18 152 of them.

–   A total of $371 000 in bonuses was granted to Grand Capital clients.

–   In 2017 the company held 102 contests for traders.

Year of cryptocurrency
Grand Capital has followed the main trends of 2017 and now offers 17 cryptocurrency pairs for trading:

BCH/USD, ETH/BTC, XMR/USD, BTC/USD, LTC/USD, LTC/BTC, ETH/USD, ETH/LTC, DSH/USD, DSH/BTC, ETC/BTC, XRP/USD, ETC/USD, BTC/EUR, ZEC/USD, ZEC/BTC, BTC/RUB.

–   We introduced a new deposit option. Now you can make deposits and withdraw funds in Bitcoins. Soon the same will be offered for Ethereum.

–   Grand Capital team started working on Serenity, the first blockchain based marketplace for traders and brokers. The project will make trading on financial markets transparent and safe. Serenity ICO starts in January 2018.

Year of improvements

In 2017 Grand Capital updated a number of trading instruments and introduced new features.

–   We enhanced our ECN account and turned it into a new generation ECN Prime. ECN Prime is based on AMTS technology. It supports traditional currency pairs and cryptocurrency trading. What’s more, you can use Depth of Market feature, place orders within spread and employ high frequency strategies in your trading.

–   We launched a Binary Options trading app for iOS and Android, where you can place trades right from the chart, use trading signals, contact our support team via LiveChat.

–   We renewed the Web Terminal for Binary Options. The new interface is much simpler and intuitive. You can see everything that is needed for effective trading on a single screen: live chart, trades info, quotes, etc.

–   We partnered with an algorithmic trading systems provider. Grand Capital clients can use robots that have been tested on Mfxbook.

Year of education

In 2017 we introduced free educational materials.

–    Watch 130 free video lessons on Forex and Binary Options trading. The course is available in 20 languages.

–   The company’s analysts Evgeniy Boguraev and Sergey Kozlovsky published a book for beginner traders which uncovers all secrets of technical and fundamental analysis, risk management and trading terminal settings.

–    Grand Capital has held 35 seminars worldwide.

Read more about 2017 here.

Grand Capital team.

Here are the results of the last trading week. Follow the top traders!

The most active client

Placed  394 trades, including 360 profitable ones and 34 that resulted in a loss. All trades involved SILVER.

Maximum deposit growth

In one trading week on a single account was $29 670,25.

The most profitable trade of the week 

Resulted in a profit of +$10 464,00. The trade was opened on the 8th of December at 3:30 PM and closed on the 18th of December at 5:32 PM. 

The most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders:

• ROUGH RICE — rough rice futures contract. Rice is one of the most cost-demanding grain crops. It is produced all over the world and is second by the production volume among the top three grains, standing between wheat and corn. Minimum price step is 0.5 cent and costs $10.

• ORANGE JUICE — orange juice futures contract. The contract size is standard and equals 15 000 pounds (approximately 6.9 tons). One tick is 0.05 and costs $7.5.

• #AEROFLOT — the largest airline in Russia and one of the world's oldest airlines. It was founded in 1923 and at the time was fully state-owned. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the company became semi-privatized, with 51% of the shares still owned by the government.

• #PG (Procter & Gamble Co) — American transnational company, one of the leaders of the world's consumer products market. The company's shares are taken into account when the Dow Jones industrial index is calculated.

• #WMT (Wal-Mart Stores) — An American retail company that manages the world's largest retail network. It operates the Walmart trademark. Turnover: 482 billion dollars (2016).

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Dear clients!

Due to the approaching Christmas and New Year, there will be changes in trading and company services schedule. Please consider this information when planning your trading activities.

Trading schedule

• December 25th — trading is closed for all instruments (except for Russian stock CFD);
• December 26th — all instruments will be trading as usual;
• January 1st–2nd — trading is closed for all instruments;
• January 3rd — all instruments will be trading as usual;
• January 8th — Russian stock CFD trading will be closed;
• January 9th — all instruments will be trading as usual.

Please note that during the holidays the liquidity of a variety of instruments may be lower than usual. As a result, the company may cancel trading with a certain range of instruments or alter the trading conditions.

Company services schedule

December 29th, 1:00 PM (UTC) — the last day of withdrawal request processing. Processing of withdrawal requests will resume on January 4th. All requests submitted between December 29th, 2017, 1:00 PM (UTC) and January 4th, 2018 will be processed in the order of arrival, starting from January 4th.

You can make deposits during the holidays using any payment method. When using bank transfer, make sure to check your bank’s holiday hours.

Technical and client support:

• January 1st–3rd, 2018 are days off;
• Starting from January 4th — working as usual.

Financial department:

• January 1st–3rd, 2018 are days off;
• Starting from January 4th — working as usual.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Grand Capital team

Learn the best results of the last trading week. Read and compare them with your own.

The most active client

Placed  484 trades, including 452 profitable ones and 32 that resulted in a loss. The majority of trades involved GBP/USD, USD/CAD, NZD/USD, EUR/GBP. 

Maximum deposit growth

In one trading week on a single account was $80 636,52.

The most profitable trade of the week 

Resulted in a profit of +$14 700,00. The trade was opened on the 16th of November at 3:23 PM and closed on the 13th of December at 3:37 PM. 

The most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders:

• KC — coffee futures contract. The contract size is 37 500 pounds (around 17 tons). One tick is 0.05 and costs $18.75. Coffee market has a higher liquidity than many other commodity markets because of the high demand for coffee;
• GOLD — gold futures. Contract volume: 100 troy ounces (around 3.11 kg). Minimum price step: $0.10 per ounce ($10.00 per contract). The price of gold usually grows during economic crises. Historically, the inflation growth is also usually accompanied by the growth of gold price;
• NASDAQ-100 — futures mini contract for NASDAQ-100 stock index. The contract size is calculated by multiplying the current value of the index by 20 USD. 1 tick is 0.25 and costs $5. NASDAQ is an American OTC market that specializes in hi-tech companies shares (electronics, software etc.);
• #INTC (Intel Corporation) — an American producer of electronic devices and computer components, including microprocessors, chipsets, etc. Volume: $59.4 billion as of 2016.
• #PEPSI – PepsiCo is an American manufacturer of non-alcoholic beverages and food. More than a half of the company's net revenues comes from the US and 20% from Mexico, Russia, Canada, United Kingdom and Brazil. As of 2016, PepsiCo is listed 90th in Forbes Global 2000 ranking of largest public companies, and 42nd by market capitalization.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other cryptocurrencies experienced explosive growth in 2017. On the threshold of the New Year, together with Serenity Financial, we’re holding a promotion in the course of which we will give away 2000 tokens. In order to participate, trade on your ECN Prime and or/Standard accounts between December 15th, 2017 and January 15th, 2018

How to start:

• Register on Grand Capital website

• Open a Standard or an ECN Prime account

• Deposit at least $500

How to participate

• Before January 15th place at least three trades (involving cryptocurrency) on your ECN Prime account, or at least five trades (involving any instruments except stock CFD) on your Standard account

• Share a screenshot of any trade on your Vkontakte page, Facebook page or Twitter with these hashtags: #ToTheMoon, #ICOSerenity, #GrandCapital_BestECN

• Contact Grand Capital tech support ([email protected]) to provide a link to your post, your account ID and your Ethereum wallet number

• You will receive a SERENITY token to your Ethereum wallet within 5 working days

Terms of the promotion

• Total turnover of your trades on ECN Prime must be at least $10 000, or at least three lots on a Standard account

• One SERENITY token is awarded for every three trades involving cryptocurrency on an ECN Prime account or for every five trades on a Standard account

• One SERENITY token = 0.1 ETH

• The number of tokens is limited. In total, 2000 tokens ($100 000) will be distributed in the course of the promotion

What is Serenity?

Serenity is a platform for secure currency, cryptocurrency and CFD trading. A total of $506,782 was attracted during the Pre-ICO. ICO starts on the 25th of January. SERENITY tokens can be used to pay for the platform’s services or sold on an exchange after the ICO ends.

Learn more about the promotion rules here.

Grand Capital team

The year 2018 is upon us and it’s time to report on the results of 2017.

2017 in figures:

• A total of 13 offices opened in Germany, the Netherlands, Indonesia, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Pakistan, Iran and Myanmar.
• Grand Capital held 35 trading seminars around the world.

Giancarlo Spinnato, head of GC LTD:

“2017 was the perhaps the best year ever for the company's International Development. It was really a breakthrough year for us, and I’m sure that the whole Grand Capital team deserves the credit. We thank all our partners for their great work and never lowering the bar. Thank you for all the results you’ve achieved and all the ways you’ve helped us to develop our company. Still, we are not going to stay content with what we’ve gained so far. We are planning on expanding our presence in several other countries, such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and some Latin American countries in 2018.”

Following the tradition, we award the most distinguished partners at the end of the year.

10 best international partners of 2017:
 

• Innocent Thembokuhle — “Partner of the year”.
• Reichelmann Joachim — “The most technologically advanced partner”, Europe.
• Boris Restya — “The most loyal partner”, Asia.
• San Lin — “The most promising partner, Southeast Asia.
• Henry Ogedengbe — “The most motivating partner”, Worldwide.
• Bimo Singo — “The most reliable partner”, Southeast Asia.
• Mapiti Katlego — “The most creative partner”, Middle East.
• Mahlatsi Valerie — “Fund manager of the year”, South Africa.
• Kusmono Andy — “The most versatile partner”, Southeast Asia.
• Eko Hermawanto — “The most responsible partner”, Southeast Asia.

Best partners will receive personalized cups from Grand Capital. We thank you all for your work!

Grand Capital team

Learn the results of the past trading week.

The most active client

Placed 864 trades, including 455 profitable ones and 409 that resulted in a loss. The majority of trades involved GOLD, EUR/USD and EUR/JPY.

Maximum deposit growth

In one trading week on a single account was $58 375.64.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$14 430.00. The trade was opened on the 17th of October at 2:51 PM and closed on the 8th of December at 9:15 AM.

The most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders:

• PLATINUM — Platinum futures contract. The contract volume is 50 troy ounces (1.56 kg). Minimum price step is $0.10 per ounce and $5 per contract. Platinum is the main and most popular member of platinum group of elements, which also comprises palladium, ruthenium, rhodium, osmium and iridium;
• HEATING OIL — heating oil futures. The contract size is 42 000 gallons (1 imperial gallon is roughly 4.55 liters). The quotation is in US dollars and cents per gallon. Minimum price fluctuation: $0.0001 per gallon;
• #UTX (United Technologies) — Founded in 1929, it is one of the largest financial and industrial groups in the United States. Market capitalization: $ 91.110 billion (2016);
• #FACEBOOK — the world's largest online social network. Facebook.com is one of the five most visited websites in the world. As of June 2017, monthly audience of the network is 2 billion users, while the revenue is $27.638 billion (2016);
• #MCD (McDonald’s Corporation) — an American corporation, the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants (until 2010) which uses a franchise system. In 2016 it was included in Fortune Global 500 (420th). Turnover: $35.39 billion (2016).

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