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And the DarwinIA winners are… (January 2018)

1 February 2018

The January 2018 edition of our DarwinIA trading challenge came to its end. Below you can find the 48 winners of our € 4,000,000 notional allocation for a 6 month period.

Place	DARWIN	Notional allocation
1st	VQB	€ 300,000.00
2nd	RDD	€ 250,000.00
3rd	GTD	€ 210,000.00
4th	WFJ	€ 170,000.00
5th	CBY	€ 150,000.00
6th	KVL	€ 140,000.00
7th	ONE	€ 130,000.00
8th	HTX	€ 120,000.00
9th	UYZ	€ 110,000.00
10th	XYF	€ 110,000.00
11th	VTS	€ 110,000.00
12th	ZGE	€ 100,000.00
13th	LDZ	€ 100,000.00
14th	RZX	€ 100,000.00
15th	XIS	€ 90,000.00
16th	ERQ	€ 90,000.00
17th	ZZI	€ 90,000.00
18th	LOM	€ 80,000.00
19th	MER	€ 80,000.00
20th	QDJ	€ 80,000.00
21st	FTA	€ 70,000.00
22nd	PFH	€ 70,000.00
23rd	PMZ	€ 70,000.00
24th	STP	€ 70,000.00
25th	ENI	€ 60,000.00
26th	NTI	€ 60,000.00
27th	LFS	€ 60,000.00
28th	LLZ	€ 60,000.00
29th	ADZ	€ 60,000.00
30th	GED	€ 60,000.00
31st	FEG	€ 50,000.00
32nd	YZF	€ 50,000.00
33rd	ZTY	€ 50,000.00
34th	ILM	€ 50,000.00
35th	XSN	€ 50,000.00
36th	QNR	€ 50,000.00
37th	SPV	€ 50,000.00
38th	STT	€ 40,000.00
39th	NDQ	€ 40,000.00
40th	WWB	€ 40,000.00
41st	UEI	€ 40,000.00
42nd	JBR	€ 40,000.00
43rd	ZOX	€ 40,000.00
44th	CEM	€ 40,000.00
45th	HGD	€ 30,000.00
46th	LZL	€ 30,000.00
47th	DZL	€ 30,000.00
48th	VBU	€ 30,000.00

Have questions about DarwinIA trading challenge ? At info@darwinex.com we’ll be happy to assist you!

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Amended Trading Hours U.S. Labor Day 2019

30 August 2019

Please note the amended Darwinex trading hours for the upcoming U.S. Labour Day on September 2nd, 2019.

Please note the amended Darwinex trading hours for the upcoming U.S. Labor Day on September 2nd, 2019. All times are in UK (BST) time.

Instrument	Trading Hours on September 2nd 2019

COMMODITIES
Gold	23:01 Sun – 17:59 Mon
Silver	23:00 Sun – 18:00 Mon
Platinum	23:00 Sun – 18:00 Mon
Palladium	23:00 Sun – 18:00 Mon
US Crude	23:00 Sun – 17:45 Mon
Natural Gas	23:00 Sun – 17:45 Mon
INDICES
Japan 225	23:00 Sun – 18:00 Mon
US SPX 500	23:00 Sun – 18:00 Mon
US Tech 100	23:00 Sun – 18:00 Mon
Wall Street 30	23:00 Sun – 18:00 Mon
US STOCKS
All US stocks	CLOSED

The rest of the assets will trade according to their usual trading time. As always, at info@darwinex.com we’ll be happy to assist you!

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UK100 Closed on August 26th

14 August 2019

Please note that the UK100 index CFD will be closed on Monday August 26th due to UK Summer Bank Holiday. All other assets will trade according to the usual trading hours.

DAX Trading Hours Soon to be Extended

9 July 2019

The CFD of the DAX (GDAXI) start trading with an extended schedule as of Monday July 22nd, 2019.

The CFD of the DAX (GDAXI) will soon – probably as of Monday July 22nd – start trading with an extended schedule.

The current schedule is as follows:

07:00 – 21:00 (London) Mon-Thu
07:00 – 20:55 (London) Fri

The extended schedule will be as follows:

01:30 – 21:00 (London) Mon-Thu
01:30 – 20:55 (London) Fri

We’ll update this post with the final implementation date of the extended schedule as soon as possible.

Update on July 18th: the DAX will start trading according to the new schedule on Monday July 22nd.

Note that during the night, GDAXI usually has a wider spread and a lower liquidity than during the day.

Please get in touch at info@darwinex.com for any questions you may have.

The FCA Makes ESMA’s CFD Restrictions Permanent

4 July 2019

The new measure doesn’t affect us more than the ESMA intervention already did. And it affected us in a positive way, contributing to the improvement of our clients’ performance.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) made the European Authority’s (ESMA) CFD restrictions permanent this week.

Some reactions to this we saw in user forums implied this was a “ban” of Contracts for Differentes (CFDs). Some even said it was “the end of Darwinex”.

We’d like to clarify that the FCA’s measure makes the restrictions we already applied last year permanent. But nothing else changes. It’s only that this time it’s the national regulator that said this while last year it was the ESMA.

The new measure doesn’t affect us more than the ESMA intervention already did. And it affected us in a positive way, contributing to the improvement of our clients’ performance.

Trading Schedule for the US Independence Day on 3rd and 4th July 2019

27 June 2019

Please note the amended Darwinex trading hours (in red) for the upcoming US Independence Day on 3 & 4 July 2019. All times are in UK (BST) time.

FX	Wednesday 3^rd July	Thursday 4^th July
All FX Instruments	22:05 Tue – 22:00 Wed	22:05 Wed – 22:00 Thu

DARWINs	22:05 Tue – 21:59 Wed	22:05 Tue – 21:59 Wed

Commodities
Gold	23:01 Tue – 21:59 Wed	*23:01 Wed – 18:00 Thu
Silver	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 18:00 Thu
Platinum	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 18:00 Thu
Palladium	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 18:00 Thu
US Crude	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 17:45 Thu
US Natural Gas	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 17:45 Thu

Indices
AUS200	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	23:00 Wed – 22:00 Thu
STOXX50E	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	23:00 Wed – 22:00 Thu
FCHI40	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	23:00 Wed – 22:00 Thu
GDAXI	07:00 – 21:00	07:00 – 21:00
J225	*23:00 Tue – 18:15 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 18:00 Thu
SPA35	07:00 – 19:00	07:00 – 19:00
UK100	23:00 Tue – 22:00 Wed	23:00 Wed – 22:00 Thu
SPX500	*23:00 Tue – 18:15 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 18:00 Thu
NDX	*23:00 Tue – 18:15 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 18:00 Thu
WS30	*23:00 Tue – 18:15 Wed	*23:00 Wed – 18:00 Thu

US stocks	14:31 – 20:59	CLOSED

Crypto
All Crypto Instruments	22:05 Tue – 22:00 Wed	22:05 Wed – 22:00 Thu

The DARWIN Exchange will remain open even if the underlying assets’ market is closed. Should you want to know the standard procedure when you buy/sell a DARWIN whose underlying asset market is closed, we recommend you to read the following Help Center article: What happens if you want to buy/sell a DARWIN which has underlying trades open with different opening/closing times?

As always, at info@darwinex.com we’ll be happy to assist you!

Australia Public Holiday on 10th June 2019

5 June 2019

Please note the amended Darwinex trading hours for the upcoming Bank Holiday in Australia on 10th June 2019 (all times are in UK time).

Please note the amended Darwinex trading hours for the upcoming bank holiday in Australia on 10th June 2019. All times are in UK (BST) time.

Indices	Monday 10th June 2019
AUS200	08:10 – 22:00

The rest of the assets will trade according to their usual trading time.

As always, at info@darwinex.com we’ll be happy to assist you!

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