Grand Capital traders are hard to beat on the first try. Interview with Vyacheslav Vyushkin, Futures Trade contest winner

If your goal is clear enough, you’re going to reach it sooner or later. Vyacheslav Vyushkov, the winner of round 44 of Futures Trade, has been longing to become a trader for a long time. And this ambition has finally borne fruit years later: profitable trades and successfully developed strategies. In the interview Vyacheslav shared his reflections on what’s the difference between the contest and real trading and told us why he simply doesn’t distinguish futures from currency pairs.

«I rely on my intuition and BB indicator»

My line of work is civil engineering, construction of roads and aerodromes, but perestroika made me a jack-of-all-trades. As far back as the previous century I read a book on Forex and became extremely enthusiastic about becoming a trader. In the early 2000s I went to trading classes, took a loan, bought a PC and lost my first deposit. Yet I persistently kept on learning and trying. After all these years I realized that the biggest mistake of all traders is to expect the price to reverse to win back the deposit. But the price just keeps going in the same direction and traders lose their deposits. I have learned this the hard way, and I always try to close trades promptly. Usually I look for a good price movement in the charts and place trades there. I have developed quite a few strategies, but mainly I rely on my intuition and BB indicator (Bollinger Bands indicator). I don’t distinguish between futures, currency pairs and other instruments. Price movement is always unpredictable and you need to make a forecast.

The difference between the contest and real trading strategies lies in the degree of risk and execution speed

When choosing a broker, I look up traders’ reviews and only then I look at swaps, bonuses and contests. Futures Trade wasn’t my first contest. I think Grand Capital traders are hard to beat on the first try. My strategy for contests is different from real trading by the degree of risk and execution speed. If you compete with a multitude of seasoned traders and don’t risk large numbers of lots, someone else would come first. You may not believe it, but it was solitude that helped me win this round. My wife was away at the time and I free from her “When are you going to throw away the Christmas tree?” nagging. Of course it’s a joke, but peace and quiet surely contributed to my victory. I like everything about Grand Capital contests. I like the intensity, brain exercise, and an opportunity to test my strategy. I wish all traders not to give up!

Sky is the limit. Interview with Anatoly Shevchenko, the winner of 178th round of Rally Trade

Sometimes lightning actually does strike the same place twice. Anatoly Shevchenko from Krasnodar Krai won our Drag Trade contest in 2013 and now he proved that the sky is the limit, having won Rally Trade. In the interview Anatoly told us how he managed to best all his opponents one more time and what part Japanese yen had in it.

$6000 in a couple of minutes

I’ve been interested in trading since 2000, but it was more of a hobby at first. For fifteen years I had been working in IT department at a local telephone exchange office: I used to do programming and technical support. But now, when I have no permanent occupation, I can give all my attention to trading and try to make a living off it. I began with reading Adam Smith, Charles Dow and books on candlestick charts, actively participated in trading contests. In 2013 I took the first place in Drag Trade contest. I even remembered the date — 13th December, 2013. But now I was just lucky. About 6AM (UTC+4) Japanese yen made a spike upwards and went up 70 points, I managed to take 45 of them and thus gained $6000 in a couple of minutes. This was the trade that got me to the first place.

«I deposited 1000 rubles and earned about 8 of my usual salaries»

Sometimes you are lucky enough to place as much as 30 profitable trades in a row. Once, in 2006, I was on holiday and earned about 8 of my usual salaries, with the initial deposit of just 1000 rubles. Mainly I use ordinary indicators like Fractals, Bollingers Bands, Moving Avarage, draw Fibonacci retracement and resistance trend lines. Speaking of the instruments, I trade currency pairs, namely EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, USDCHF, EURJPY, GBPJPY, AUDUSD, NSDUSD and also gold and silver. What advice can I give to beginners? I suppose, to be disciplined and control your losses. Keep your risks as low as possible — Euro can move 150 points in a couple of hours with no effort. As for the indicators and strategies, I think everyone should choose and test them on their own.

Grand Capital weekly recap (October 24th – October 28th)

Successful people say that records only exist to be broken.  Last week the most active client of Grand Capital placed 1711 successful trades. Read more about this and other facts in our traditional weekly recap. Compare your trading results with others and strive for the best!

Here's the recap of the last week: 

The most active client

Placed 2992 trades, including 1711 profitable ones and 1281 that resulted in a loss.

Maximum deposit growth

In one trading week on a single account was +$28 833,00.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$10 422,00. The trade was opened on the 20th of October at 4:45PM and closed on the 24th of October at 11:09AM.   

The most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders:

• # CL – Crude oil futures. Light Sweet Crude Oil is traded at NYMEX. This brand is the most popular of all. Contract volume: 1.000 barrel;

• # RP – Euro/British Pound futures. It is a low activity contract; its daily volumes don't exceed a few hundreds of contracts. Contact volume - 125 000 Euro, minimum price fluctuation (1 pip) - 0,00005 Pounds for 1 Euro or 6,25 Pounds per contract.

• # ZR – Rice futures contract. It is traded at Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Rice is one of the most expensive crops to produce. It is produced worldwide and is the second among the three crops, losing to wheat and overrunning corn.

• # SBER – Sberbank is the main creditor of the Russian economy. Sberbank has 17,5 thousand branches across Russia.

• # GE – General Electric is an American corporation, manufacturer of many types of equipment, including locomotives, power plants (including nuclear reactors), gas turbines, aircraft engines, medical equipment, etc.

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Never break trading rules. Interview with Dmitry Myasnikov, the winner of $200 in Drag Trade

When there are no rules, trading turns into chaos. When your own money is at stake, the value of rules becomes more obvious than ever. So thinks Dmitry Myasnikov, the winner of 337th round of Drag Trade. In the interview, he told us of his serious approach to Forex and the maxims of his multicurrency trading system.

Trader’s path

My very first trade was placed on a demo account in late 2009. The next year I started trading on real accounts and participating in contests on demo accounts along the way. I’m an accountant, but recently I’ve been working remotely from home for health reasons. I try to spend three hours a day on Forex, and I trade every day. I’m sure that anyone can become a trader as long as they don’t break their own rules and trade with multicurrency system. Now Forex is my favorite hobby, but I hope it becomes my primary occupation in five years or so, since the potential profit is not limited by anything. It’s easier for me to trade on five small accounts with $200 on each, than on a single one with $1000. I expect at least 3% profit from each of my accounts, but the last month resulted in 10% to 25% profit.

My trading system

I don’t pay heed to analytic forecasts. Every morning I look through the economic calendar, watch news and if something important comes up, I try to avoid trading half an hour before and after the publication. Or at least I trade with instruments that likely won’t be affected by that particular piece of news. When opening trades, I rely on signals I received from my own trading system. I repeat myself, it is vitally important to develop your own trading system and never break its rules. My trading system is multi-currency, it’s adapted for all currency pairs. The system is based on the crossing of moving averages, 50 and 100, and also AO indicator from MT4. Within my system I trade only with the trend direction on H4 and H1 charts. AO indicator on H4 chart confirms direction of the trend.

Trading instruments

Almost every day I open short-term scalping trades. I have experience and a developed multi-currency trading system, so now I can trade any instruments from MT4, even metals and oil. One of my first exotic instruments was GBP/HUF pair (British pound/Hungarian forint). The spread was 65 points, but I was easily expecting profit from 500 points, and sometimes even up to 2000.

Drag Trade contest

Grand Capital offers favorable conditions, competitive spreads and fast withdrawal. And Drag Trade is the only contest where you can win real money in an hour of trading. I won thanks to correctly chosen instrument, GBP/NZD pair. I assumed that it was headed for correction (for about 100 points) and during the contest I traded only with it. And so I won.

Grand Capital will hold trading seminar in South Africa

The seminar, where one of the country's most successful traders Thembokuhle Shongwe and a famous financial analyst lucia Manthata will uncover their secrets of successful trading will take place on the 12th of November in Secunda (South Africa). The curriculum includes the basics of trading on financial markets, risk management strategies, market analysis tools, Grand Capital investment services and much more.

The seminar will take place in the Limelight Theatre of Graceland Hotel Casino Country Club (eMbalenhle Road, Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa) at 11:00 (local time).

We invite everyone to attend the event!

To register for the free seminar call +27615434073, or contact the organizers via WhatsApp: +79643293668, +27768740487.

Yours truly, Grand Capital team.

Grand Capital weekly recap (November 7th – November 11th)

The last week turned out to be quite tense and dramatic. Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the US presidential election stirred up the markets. And as always, someone gained more and someone gained less. Learn about the best trading results in our traditional weekly recap.

Here’s the recap of the last week:

The most active client

Placed 1248 trades, including 1179 profitable and only 69 that resulted in a loss. Note that all the trades were on the USD/JPY pair.

Maximum deposit growth

In one trading week on a single account was $70 208,77.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$13 097,85. The trade was opened on the 8th of November at 8:34AM and closed on the 9th of November at 7:29AM.

The most interesting assets chosen by traders:

• # GC — Gold futures, traded on COMEX exchange market. The volume of contract: 100 troy ounces (about 3,11 kg). Minimum price fluctuation: $0,10 for an ounce ($10,00 for a contract);

• # FGBL — futures contract for German long-term bonds Euro Bund, traded on Eurex exchange market. Contract volume is 100,000 EUR. Contract price quotation is a percent of the nominal value of the contract. 1 tick equals 0,01 points (percent) and costs €10,00;

• # 6E — EURUSD futures. It is the most liquid currency futures, trading volume of which reaches hundreds of thousands of contracts per day. Contract volume is 125 000 EUR;

• # ROSNEFT — Russian oil and gas company. It is the world’s largest publicly traded oil company. The company’s main activities include prospecting and extraction of oil and gas, production of petrochemicals and sales of its products.

• # RUSGIDRO — Russian hydroelectricity company, owner of the most hydroelectric power plants in the country, one of the major Russian generating companies by installed plant capacity and world’s third largest hydroelectric generating company.

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Grand Capital weekly recap (November 14th – November 18th)

We wish you a successful trading week and, as always, present to you our weekly recap.

Here's the recap of the last week:

The most active client:

Placed 1903 trades during the last week, 1190 of which were profitable and 713 resulted in a loss. All the trades were placed on EUR/USD pair.

Maximum deposit growth

In one trading week on a single account was $99 501,57.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$22 044,00. The trade was opened on the 10th of November in 11:56PM and closed on the 14th of November in 8:51AM.

The most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders:

• # RY — EUR/JPY cross-rate futures. The trading volumes reach several thousands of contracts a day. Contract value is 125,000 EUR, minimal price fluctuation (1 point and 1 tick) is 0.01 JPY for 1 EUR or 1,250 JPY for 1 contract;

• # HO — Mazut futures, traded on NYMEX exchange market. Contract value is 42,000 gallons (1 imperial gallon is 4,55 liters; 1 US gallon is 3,78541178 liters). The quotes are in USD for a gallon. Minimal price fluctuation is $0,0001 for a gallon;

• # FESX — Euro Stoxx 50 index futures, traded on Eurex exchange market. Contract value is calculated by multiplying €10 by the current index quote figure. The quotes are specified in the index points. 1 tick equals 1 unit and costs €10,00;

• # AXP — American Express is an American financial services corporation. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler's cheque businesses. The company is headquartered in New York City, NY and its common shares are traded on New York Stock Exchange. American Express is one of 30 companies included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average;

• # INTC — Intel Corporation is an American corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. The company produces electronic devices and hardware components, including microprocessors, chipsets etc.

Earn with Grand Capital!

Enjoy no commission deposits until the end of 2016!

“0% deposit commission” promotion turned out to be quite popular among our clients, so we've decided to prolong it for one more month - until the 31st of December.

Deposit to your account without worrying about any extra expenses - Grand Capital will take care of all the commissions!

Deposit any amount to your account in your Private Office, using any convenient payment method.

We remind you that wire transfers, Contact, Colibri, Western Union, Money Gramm and Korona payment systems are not eligible for the promotion.

Hurry to take advantage of the promotion by the end of December and finish the year with profit.

Yours Truly,
Grand Capital team

Grand Capital partnered with FXBC Changer

We are glad to announce that Grand Capital has partnered with FXBC Changer - one of the most popular exchange systems in Indonesia. This means that we have yet again widened our deposit method selection for Indonesian clients. FXBC changer supports deposits and withdrawals in IDR for the major Indonesian banks: BNI, BRI, Mandiri and BCA.

To make a deposit through FXBC Changer:

1. Go to the Deposit/Withdrawal section

2. Select FXBC Changer

3. Fill in the necessary fields and click Continue

4. Follow the instructions given. The funds will be deposited to your account within 24 hours.

The complete list of others convenient deposit/withdrawal methods offered by Grand Capital can be found at the deposit/withdrawal section of our website.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact our support team via LiveChat or email info@grandcapital.net.

Claim your personal bonus!

Till the 31st of December you have a chance to add up to 200% to your deposit. Find out which bonus you can claim using our bonus calculator.

Grand Capital opens a new office in The Netherlands

We are glad to announce that Grand Capital has opened its very first office in Amstelveen, Netherlands.

The office's address: Rembrandtweg 221-415, 1181 GJ Amstelveen, Netherlands.

You can reach Grand Capital's representative in the Netherlands by calling +31107449381.

The office working hours are Monday to Friday from 9AM to 6PM.

In the office you can receive consultations on all the company's services and products, as well as:

• Receive assistance when choosing and opening a trading account;

• Learn how to trade Forex, CFD and Binary Options;

• Receive assistance with depositing/withdrawing your funds;

• Learn how to invest in LAMM accounts;

• Learn about our promotions and bonuses.

Welcome to the new Grand Capital office!

In 2016 Grand Capital received ISO certificate, which means that Grand Capital management system meets the requirements of the international standard (ISO 9001-2011).

It’s great news for everyone at Grand Capital.  We put together this 101 on the subject: what is ISO, why ISO standards are important for the company, and on top of all that, how it benefits our clients.

What is an ISO standard?

ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization. The organization was founded in 1946 and since that time has been engaged in developing and issuing international standards for various fields. The company’s name is a reference to a Greek word “isos”, meaning “equal” and is recognized in every language. Thus, the name perfectly reflects the idea of ISO: equal conditions and equal international standards.
ISO standard is a document that specifies the requirements for products, procedures and services. Certified organizations examine a certain company in accordance with ISO standards and issue a corresponding certificate. ISO standards are constantly being edited and updated.

Why is it important for the company?

ISO international standards provide tools for development. They help companies to enter new markets, increase sales, win clients’ loyalty and improve their production system.
Grand Capital received ISO certificate that is applicable to such fields as advisory services, auditing, design, development, implementing, testing and maintenance of software, automated information systems, robotic systems, system solutions, business applications.

How it benefits our clients?

ISO certificate is not mandatory, but it’s a kind of benchmark of quality for companies. The presence of the certificate guarantees that the company provides reliable and safe services that meet the international standards.
Grand Capital cares about quality of the services it provides. We hope that our clients will continue to enjoy our products and services.

Grand Capital team.