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Dragon’s Tale is one of the most exotic bitcoin related games. Dragon’s Tale introduced a completely new concept to gambling and is now considered by the industry as the first of its kind.

Dragon’s Tale is a wonderful virtual world where you will find all kind of animals, plants, lots of coconuts and trees and the players will be able to interact with pretty much everything in the game. The players may choose to search for hidden items, to go farming, fishing and much more. As in most MMORPGs, the player advances through the game and levels up by performing missions mainly based in combat. Likewise, in Dragon’s Tale, the characters increase their level by completing several quests which require skill and luck based wagers.
What is probably the coolest thing in the game is that the other players are always willing to help; You can go to the bar to get some drinks, meet new gamers and complete tasks. Players can participate in meetings. This is good because you can actually profit from these meetings. So, if you get lucky enough, you will meet players who will smoke cigars with you and buy you some drinks, which will help you complete your quests.

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Dragon’s Tale was launched back in 2012. It is one of the oldest Bitcoin casinos in the industry and the first to introduce a role playing game mixed with casino games. It is a Bitcoin casino role play game that offers players to enter a virtual world of fun and exotic casino-based mini-games.

In the virtual world of Dragon’s Tale, there are dozens of original mini-games that are quite simple to play and which offer some nice returns. One of these fun games is the Tower of Lights. The Tower of Lights is a simple skill game where players need to adorn consecutive floors of a Chinese tower using lanterns representing each of China’s many provinces. The tower of Lights is basically a game of memory. So once you get the hang of it, you will be able to have a fair advantage in the game. Players will be able to easily find the Tower of Lights throughout many of the islands of the game.

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Crude oil turned into strong bullish mode in September which looks like an impulsive price move on the 4h chart. We see an extended and sharp leg from 44.14 to 51.50 that looks like wave 3 of an impulsive structure. If that’s true then we know that market is in new bullish phase so uptrend should continue after the wave 4 pullback which can be now in final stages of an Elliott Wave flat correction that can be looking for a base at 49.00-49.50 area.

Crude OIL, 4H

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DAX is turning strongly to the downside from a new high, so we believe that index is trapped in a new corrective pattern; a very complex one that can either be an Elliott Wave flat or an Elliott Wave triangle. As things stands at the moment, we favor the flat that is pointing down for wave five of C which could then form a bottom at 10000-10100 area.

German DAX, H4

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ChronoBank is a blockchain-based recruitment platform that is being developed by Australia-based blockchain entrepreneurs and developers, including the famous Edward Group Limited.

Armed with a clear development roadmap, the blockchain project will soon launch its ICO with an intention of raising funds for further development. At the same time, the crowd-sale will bring adequate profitable opportunities for early investors.

But why should an investor invest in Chronobank? To rephrase: what makes ChronoBank so different?Answers to this question can make the decision-making process for the potential investors easier. For starters, the use of blockchain technology for recruitment is a relatively new thing and the ChronoBank project is attempting to do just that — with the support of a company operating in the industry for over 100 years.

ChronoBank is the first platform to come up with a time-based cryptocurrency, which is ideal for the recruitment industry as the labor is always measured in man-hours. The time-based cryptocurrency Labor Hour token is a multi-chain cryptocurrency whose value will be pegged against the value of fiat currency to eliminate the price volatility.

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BTCUSD has been selling off after testing record highs recently due to profit-taking and as a reaction to Chinese government action. Last week, monetary authorities in the mainland warned consumers and exchanges about bitcoin trading and investment, emphasizing that it is not currency and shouldn’t be treated as such.

Bitcoin firms were prompted to cancel marketing events that promote the anonymity of BTCUSD trading as authorities reiterated the need to implement KYC and AML checks on trading. With that, investors continued liquidating their long positions and might continue to do so in the next few days.

Bitcoin price found support around $815 and has since pulled up to the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level on the latest swing high and low. Price is still stalling close to the 38.2% Fib and might be ready to drop back to the previous lows and beyond. The 100 SMA has crossed below the longer-term 200 SMA on this time frame to confirm that sellers are taking control of price action.

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How to Tell if Your Broker is Trading Against You

1. In this video, we're focusing on forex and CFD brokers; this discussion does not apply to stocks and futures brokers.
2. The simple truth is that most forex and CFD brokers are trading against their clients. The details in how this is accomplished vary greatly from broker to broker. Broadly speaking, we can say there are two types of brokers: A Book brokers and B Book brokers.
3. A Book brokers may technically be trading against their clients in that they are taking the opposite side of the trade, but they generally are taking a risk neutral approach to the market and are looking to immediately offset the trade. So they are not trading against their client in spirit, only in technicality.
4. B Book brokers will choose what positions of their clients they wish to offset. As such, they are willing to take a directional position in the market, and thus may be trading against their clients in a more material way. For instance, suppose the B Book broker wants to take a long Euro position in the market. To do this, they may not offset the short Euro trades their clients have put on; rather, they will simply take the other side of these trades.
5. A Book and B Book brokers can both run into big problems -- for themselves, and in turn, their clients -- if the larger banks and brokerage firms they offset orders with no longer take positions. This risk is known as liquidity risk. We saw liquidity risk have a devastating impact on both A Book and B Book brokers when the Swiss National Bank unpegged the Swiss Franc from the Euro, resulting in a huge move in a matter of minutes.
6. As a general rule of thumb, the more illiquid instruments a broker offers and the more leverage they offer the more likely they are a B book broker whose positions in the market are a significant part of their business. These types of brokers are giving signals they are comfortable with liquidity risk, which means they are comfortable taking the other side of the customer's position.
7. B Book brokers have a conflict of interest that makes it seem like they are dishonest and unethical, but they can offer their clients significant benefits that A Book brokers cannot. Namely, their willlingness to take on liquidity risk means they can offer prices and trading opportunities that would otherwise not be available. They bundle their customer orders to customers with lower trading costs, and offer trading free from restrictions like the pattern day trader rule or any uptick rule. As such, B Book brokers are not entirely bad or useless. What matters is whether you value the advantages they offer and that you trust them not to abuse their position as your counterparty.
8. You can ask your broker directly about their dealing desk policy, though many will be coy about their status. This is largely because they feel uncomfortable about admitting their status as the counterparty to your trade, and because they generally do not educate their staff in the nuances of how they operate and make money.

Sycamore Entertainment Group Inc (OTCMKTS:SEGI) shares were up more than 70% at the start of the week but dropped 42.86% in the latest US session to $0.00040. The company has a market cap of $971K at 1.39 billion shares outstanding. Share prices have been trading in a 52-week range of $0.00 to $0.00.
Last week, Sycamore Entertainment Group announced that*it has executed a “film rights purchase agreement” with top Hollywood producers and was required to put $1.5 million in escrow to secure the deal*while the production financing agreement is being negotiated with the studio.

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Forex traders residing in the US typically have a harder time locating a Forex broker that accepts their business. I also imagine you may be shopping for a new broker now after the FXCM business, we’ll see more about that later. Whatever your reason, you still have plenty of options, and these are the top forex brokers that will help you with trading within the US and regulated by the CFTC and NFA.

Forex.com

At the moment, Forex.com could be considered the largest Forex broker in the US. This used to be FXCM’s position, but it has now been barred from operating in the US. So, about Forex.com, the brokerage is a subsidiary of Gain Capital Holdings Inc., and it was launched in 2004. By the year 2016, there were mentions that Forex.com had about 140,000 clients in its books, which is a great number for any Forex broker.

Oanda

This is another well-known Forex broker based in the US. The company was founded in 1996, but their Forex brokerage business started in 2001. Back then, they were among the first companies to offer currency trading over the internet.
Since then, the company has expanded to become not only a leading Forex broker in the US but also worldwide. Over the years, it has received numerous awards for their services, and they remain a favourite among many Forex traders.

TD Ameritrade

Another Forex trading giant, this company was founded way back in 1971 to offer ETFs, options and future. They later started to offer Forex trading when the industry started to grow, and now have a large customer base both in the US and the rest of the world.

Interactive Brokers

A major Forex broker in the US and worldwide, IB is also a reliable broker for US residents and anyone else seeking to trade the Forex market. For its client base, it seems to target high net-worth traders as you can tell from their minimum deposit of $10,000, which leaves out most retail traders.

TradeKing Forex

Started in 2005, the company dealt primarily with stocks, options and bonds. Their Forex trading business only started in 2015 when the company acquired MB Trading. Since then, this broker has also risen in popularity by the US market because of their features.

Others

If you have still not found the broker that tickles your fancy, then you can still check out these ones:

• ATC Brokers
• TradersChoiceFX
• CMS Forex
• FastBrokers
• Fortress Capital

For those traders who are not is USA – there are way less limits.

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My current broker recently organised a very cool webinar about the forex market. And by the way now that company offers $2017 no deposit bonus.