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On the show this week we have a bumper edition – the future of leveraged trading, online/in-app education, IT Dev, user experience design, new ESMA rules – and much more, Responsible for this fireworks show is Ivan Gowan CEO of multi-award winning capital.com. who have125 staff and over £30m of capital.

Gowan.jpg">Gowan-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150">In the previous episode LFP105 we covered the digital approach to execution-only stockbroking.

In this episode we cover the more rarefied world of leveraged trading which democratises as it were the magical powers of hedge funds to trade efficiently and leverage positions. You can see this as a crossover of capital markets Fintech and trading for sophisticated investors. One for the cognoscenti but a market which has seen huge growth in the past two decades. Fintech is truly revolutionising everything.

Both last weeks episode and this cover the waterfront of the disintermediation of investment management. It’s also important not to see them as opposing – most moneyed folks will have a core portfolio that is solid and stable and those that do leveraged trading do it with a portion of their funds.  As we come into in the show the demographic of such folks is pretty wide going far beyond the ex-traders that I had always imagined.

So without further ado lets sketch some of the detailed topics in this episode. Topics discussed on the show include:

• Triathlons, Half Iron Man, training and regime for that – recovery, eating, balance of types of exercise
• Ivan’s background in tech, java development and through increasingly senior levels of management and breadth of business exposure up to managing a division of 300 people
• the advantages of coming up the engineering route
• heavy emphasis and and how to deliver what the client needs rather than what he thinks he wants
• moving, pivoting, adapting
• conveying information to make people feel informed but not overloaded – a key challenge as Fintechs move beyond the original model of “doing one simple thing well” to broadening their product range
• Google Maps as a Case Study of a simple emphasis yet great and deep functionality available at the point of need
• Trading education – delivering via a book or a course or at point of need
• impact of futures contracts on the Bitcoin market
• Capital.com have a free trading education App Investmate – Here on Google Play (4.6* 825 reviews) and On the Apple Store (it won’t show me stats as I am not an Appler – boo to walled gardens :-P)
• how education is approached on that app and how well it is going down despite spreading by word of mouth only
• the main trading platform analyses clients trading approaches and detects 10 different types of trading bias and informs the client of it and a piece of research to educate them if they so choose
• psychology and trading
• measuring “running losses and cutting profits” in bank trading departments
• ESMA trading rules and retail customers, how this world is changing and how the new rules will help the market and what the risks with them are
• Case Study of the Swiss Franc as a pivotal example for protecting
• Capital.com have always provided negative balance protection (ie you can only lose your stake)
• capital.com cover all the key markets across major asset classes – FX, Commodities, Major Equity Exchanges, Crypto Currencies, larger US & UK shares, rolling out European shares
• major client markets UK, Germany, Italy, also traction in Scandinavia
• CFDs and how they work – exposure, leverage, funding, period
• cf housing and mortgages – very similar structure/approach
• leverage levels in line with ESMA recommendations – FX 30x leverage, and for other instruments 2-30x
• credit risk on capital dot com and their internal hedging
• typical clients cover a wide range  – business owners, CFOs, people who take a lot of decisions in their day to day life, highly skilled professions – lawyers, doctors
• the reasons folks are interested in doing this – intellectual challenge and that the whole news becomes relevant
• the Facebook Live event with their chief global strategist every week
• their mission is to make the world of Finance more accessible, engaging and useful
• their vision is to build the best trading platform
• intending to go beyond just CFDs in the future

And much much more

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