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Foreign Exchange

EBS Data Mine

EBS Data Mine provides historical insight into trading activity on ICAP’s award-winning electronic EBS platform. More than 2,500 traders representing 800-plus trading institutions in 50 countries around the world actively trade on the EBS platform, generating approximately USD 190 billion (single count) a day in electronic spot FX transactions, including USD 1 billion in precious metals (10 million oz silver, 1.5 million oz gold).

EBS Data Mine Level 1.0 offers unique and certified data for all currencies and metals traded on the EBS platform from January 1997 to the present.

EBS Data Mine Level 1.5 includes all Level 1.0 data, plus volume indicators from all transactions beginning 1 January 2000.

Benefits of EBS Data Mine include:

• Significant competitive advantage for those wishing to analyse previous spot FX market activity in order to predict future movements and trends
• Improved insight into true spot FX price movements through access to the definitive source of global spot FX market data, ICAP’s EBS platform

Key applications include:

• Creation of models to determine the best times for market entry/exit
• Back-testing of models on past events to anticipate future results
• Auditing and price verification
• Analysis of market trends, including granular analysis, correlation analysis and liquidity profiling

EBS Data Miner

EBS Data Miner, provided at no additional cost with qualified EBS Data Mine packages, is a tool that converts the CSV data file into a format that is easily manipulated and presented in graphical display.

To find out about ICAP’s electronic FX trading solutions, click here.