Dear traders.
In this topic in the consent with forum administration I would like to pay your attention to the broker on Forex Market – InstaForex Company. The web-site of company is www.instaforex.com.

We offer to our clients access to the world financial area – Forex, NYSE. In the list of quoted and traded tools all main and the most part of exotic currency pairs, more than 30 CFD contracts on stocks and American indexes are accessible.

Your formula of success with InstaForex Company is:

- The product from the world leading developer of trading platforms- InstaTrade4;
- News from the leading informational agencies Reuters and Dow Jones;
- Work via biggest contragents with direct access to the currency market.

The trading conditions of InstaForex Company are universal tools of money management:

- No restrictions on the size of the account and volume of transactions;
- More than 100 trading symbols;
- FOREX, indexes and stocks;
- 1 second transaction execution;
- Qualified technical and consulting support 24 hours 5 days.


The motto of InstaForex – Instant Forex i.e. direct and as much as possible fast access to Forex.

We will be glad to answer all you questions in this topic.

Thank you...

Dear traders, I continue to acquaint you with InstaForex.
Our advantages are trading conditions which we offer to our clients.
Tools
InstaForex Company gives an opportunity to work with 32 currency tools, 34 CFD contracts on American stocks and also to process transactions on GOLD and SILVER.
The size of the Deposit
We give an opportunity of work in the currency market not depending on your working capital. You can work with the same comfort both with 10 dollar deposit, and with 10000 dollar deposit.
Trading shoulders
You can choose trading shoulder from 1:1 to 1:500 depending of what strategy of risks management you are using in trade.
Forex trade without spreads
InstaForex gives an opportunity to their client of work on the currency market without spreads. Trade without spreads makes it easier the visual perception of the trading process and makes the application of technical analysis while making decision more effective.
Charge of percent on available assets
On all live accounts of any account type the interest rate of 6 % annual extends which is charged on money which are not used in trade. The interest rate of 6 % annual is charged on the InstaForex clients’ accounts at the end of each month.
Service quality
Our experts render technical support to clients daily 24 hours. We consider as a key rule of granting of client service politeness and efficiency in dialogue with each client.
The general principles of granting of services
Major principle of formation of the list of trading services given by InstaForex Company is the support of full spectrum of opportunities accessible to modern trader. Becoming the client of InstaForex company, you can be assured that will get in due time access to all new kinds of trading services on the financial markets which will appear in future. Specialists of InstaForex Company are constantly monitoring the market of broker services and make their best to act as quick as possible on new ideas. Watching achievements of competitors, we never forget about innovations, being engaged in regular work on introduction of new kinds of contracts.

Special offers:

Besides main trading conditions for account groups Eurica and Standard InstaForex Company offers a number of special offers: the accounts in USD, EUR, RUB, CHF and GOLD.To save the money from risks of falling of a dollar exchange rate you can open account in any other currency including gold and Swiss franc.

Accounts without swaps – SWAP-FREE
SWAP-FREE account service is intended for traders, who can use trading systems without taking into consideration swap affect or for clients who can’t use swaps by their religious belief. At moving to SWAP-FREE system all other trading conditions for Standard and Eurica account types are kept.

Bank guarantee
Bank guarantee allows to provide with a high level protection of currency on the trading account from uncommercial risks. The main advantage of this type of protection is that independent international bank acts as mediator while concluding bank guarantee and provides guarantee of safety of currency under any circumstances.

Investor account
The company offers the opening of accounts not only to traders but to investors of financial markets. While opening an investor account the client has opportunity to determine for him special values of margin and deposit, limits of maximal subsidence and also maximal volume of deal.
The additional adjustments which are accessible to investor accounts, allow to regulate relations of the trader and the investor where broker company acts as independent side.

VIP Trading accounts – spreads from 1 pip
For professional traders with deposits more than 10000 USD InstaForex Company offers the opportunity of work on VIP-accounts with lowered spreads. VIP-accounts completely repeats the conditions of trading on InstaStandard accounts except spreads. It is possible for VIP-accounts to connect to Swap-free mode which is made irrespective of VIP-account service.

A company Instaforex invites all to take part in the competition of traders among demo-accounts with a prize fund 11500 dollars! Trading on a demo-account, you get possibility to get one of money prizes.

I. General Conditions
The Tournament is organized by InstaTrade Corporation.
The Tournament starts on the 29st of September 2008 and finishes on the 31st of October 2008.
Registration starts on the 1st of August 2008 and finishes on the 28st of September 2008.
Prizes of totally $11500 are distributed among:
- First Place - $5 000
- Second Place - $2 000
- Third Place - $1 000
- Fourth Place – $500
- 3 random Extra-prizes - $1 000 every ($3 000 summary)
Trading on Tournament accounts will be available on DEMO server of InstaForex – ITC Demo.
All Participant operations will only be performed with virtual money on their accounts.
Every Participant can have only one Tournament account.

II. Participants
Any holder of real account in InstaForex is eligible to participate in the Tournament.
If the Participant does not have real trading account in InstaForex then he should open it before registering on Tournament.
Everybody who wants to participate in the Tournament must be registered on web-site of InstaForex.
The Participant agrees and undertakes to provide true information about himself/herself at registration.
The Participant can be registered only once within the Tournament.
The attempts of using for trading in the Tournament several trading accounts or use of anonymous proxies will result in unambiguous disqualification of the Participant.
Organizers reserve the right to refuse registration to a Participant without showing the cause and to disqualify him/her showing the cause. The one of possible causes of disqualify may be occurring of opening opposed orders on big volume in same instruments on two or more accounts several times.
Having registered for participation in the Tournament, each Participant expresses hereby his/her full agreement with these Rules without any exceptions or limitations.

III. Trading Terms
After registration procedure the Participant receives access to Tournament account on 10000 USD.
The virtual start deposit is USD 100 000, leverage 1:500. The deposit may not be topped up.
All trading instruments are available in the trading terminal InstaTrader may be used in trading.
All trades opened by non-market prices will be canceled.
Participant can use Expert Advisor in trading and any trading strategies.
The minimum trade size is 0.0 lot, the maximum trade size is 10 lots with the step of 0.01 lot for each order.
Participant can change his Tournament account to Swap Free account contacting support of InstaForex.
The maximum amount of same time opened positions and pending orders is 5.
Stop Out level is 10%.
All trading conditions for Tournament accounts are same as for real trading accounts excluding possibility choosing other deposit currency.

IV. Publishing of Results
During the Tournament equity volumes of all accounts can be published in table of participants on InstaForex website.
InstaForex reserve the right to public participants’ statements on the web-site after Tournament finishing.
Statistic of countries and regions of participants may be published any time during the Tournament running time and after.
Results of Tournament will be published in 7 days after Tournament finishing after all checking procedures for cheating and other dishonest methods.

V. How the Winners Are Determined
After the Tournament is finished (23:59 on the 17st of October 2008, trading time), all positions on Participants accounts will be automatically closed with current quotes.
Four Participants who have the largest balances by the end of the Tournament will be declared as the Winners.
If 2 or more potential winners have equal balances, the final decision will be made by the Jury.
All participants has opened at least fife orders during the Tournament will take part in drawing of 3 Extra-prizes at 1 000 USD every. In case winner of Extra-prize Participant was referred to Tournament by one of other Participant then Extra-prize will be divided on 2 parts at 500 USD between Winner of the Extra-Prize and Participant had referred Winner to the Tournament.
The Winners must agree to the publication of their names and surnames.

VI. How the Award Is Paid
The Winners must send the photocopies of their to email tournament@instaforex.com or by fax (+7 4012 616265) within 30 working days after they have been declared winners in order to confirm their identity.
The sum of prize will be deposited on real trading account of Participant was entered while registration.
All prizes excluding first place prize can be transferred from trading account. Prize for first place can is not able to withdraw but any profit from this sum is able to transfer from account.

Dear sirs, I would to describe also InstaForex Tournament affiliate prgoram giving every trade get 5 USD for every friend referred to taking part in InstaForex Tournament.

Tournament affiliate program.
1. Each participant of Tournament gets Tournament affiliate link, using which he can involve people for opening tournament accounts. For each person registered by Tournament affiliate link, the owner of a partner link will get 5 USD on his live trading account.
2. The total sum of charges is counted up after Tournament termination and is charged on the live trading account of the participant during next 7 days after the tournament termination.
3. The participant of the partner program doesnt get compensation for inactive demo accounts.
4. The Company keeps right not to charge compensation in case of detection attempts of cheating or swindle during registration.
5. Except compensations for registering tournament accounts the participant of the partner program has an opportunity to get the half of Extra-Prize in case if one of the involved participants becomes the winner of the Extra-Prize.
6. The statistics of registrations of tournament accounts you can see in the cabinet of partner statistics on the page https://security.instaforex.com/en/a...statistic.aspx

The quantity of InstaForex 2008 Tournament competitors exceeds 590 traders.

It’s worth mentioning that registration will be available till 29th of September 2008, the competition starts at 29th of September 2008. The competition will continue for one month till 31st of October 2008, during this period all the winners will be appointed.
Trading on the DEMO-account, you will get an opportunity to win one of the following prizes in an amountof:

First Place - $5 000

Second Place - $2 000

Third Place - $1 000

Fourth Place– $500

3 random Extra-prizes - $1 000 each ($3 000 totally)

To register in the competition you can right now here:
https://security.instaforex.com/fore...istration.aspx

Dear Clients,

At the present moment our web-site is attacked by hackers, based on overloading of connection channels by high amount of inquiries.
We apologize if this coincidence puts you to inconveniences.
In case of existence of any questions, please contact our 24-hours support service.

ICQ - 350070300
Yahoo Messenger - IFX.Clients
+7(4012)616265
+7(4012)769016
+7(4012)774572
+7-800-2000-791 (the call is free in Russia)

A problem was decided in a flow 20 hours.
Now a technical department strengthens the system of safety.

We will try to avoid the similar situations next time.

11 September, 2008

InstaForex Servers were attacked by hackers at 00:00 GMT+00, the attack drives to unavailability of our web-site instaforex.com during next 2 days for the period more than 20 hours. During all this time our technical department was solving the problems of availability of instaforex.com and security.instaforex.com.

All company’s services took an active part in consulting of clients in 24/7 mode. In the period of web-site unavailability the financial department took enquiries on withdrawal and replenishment by means of electronic and telephone communication. Part of the clients, who met the losses because of Margin Call and unavailability of trading accounts’ replenishment operations, got the full recovery of all lots after having appealed to dealer’s department.

Since 00:00 GMT+00 12 September, 2008 technical department started to recover the availability of servers and after 22:00 GMT+00 12 September, 2008 it was fully recovered. Hackers’ attack was thoroughly planned and included massive usage of grate amount of resources, that was to some extant unexpected for technical department. After having overcome the last attack, measures were taken in order to prevent the possibility of the same events’ resumption in future.

InstaForex Company apologizes for inconveniences and unavailability of the web-site instaforex.com caused by hackers’ attack.

Here is the statistics of traffic, organized by hackers on the main web-site server:



In the period when attack was reached its peak, it was about 60 mb/sec, which shows serious volume of traffic organized by strangers.

After overcoming of hackers’ attack consequences, technical department started to enhance the level of security of servers’ system by means of increasingphysical power and initiation of new backup servers which will guarantee working capacity of InstaForex Informational system in case of any attacks in future.

Judging by attack’s volume it becomes clear that the last attack was organized not by accidental people and not just for fun. The traffic’s volume provided by hackers shows their interest in breaking the normal work of company’s web-site.

This situation is the case of criminal legislation of the Russian Federation and any other country, in particular EU, that is why our specialists is starting to collect information for providing it to the competent body in order to find and punish the organizers of attacks in accordance with the clauses of the criminal law in the international legislation and in Russia.

We apologize for unavailability of the main web-site instaforex.com because of prophylactic maintenance after hackers’ attack on our server. At the moment our specialists of technical department negotiate with the provider’s specialists for the quickest clearing the causes of the problem.

Please keep in view that the main web-site is available on three backup servers:

http://instaforex.org - the first backup server

http://instaforex.net – the second backup server


These backup servers provide the full functioning and assurance of the main web-site instaforex.com which is on prophylacti� measures now.

We appreciate for patience and understanding of the technical problems that causes unavailiability of server instaforex.com and apply for using backup servers for working with the web-site.


Mind you that consulting support service is ready to render assistance and answer any your questions in 24\5 mode.

The unavailability of the InstaForex web-site.

Dear Clients!
At the given moment the main web-site instaforex.com is on maintenance. Our specialists cooperate with the support service of the provider in order to find the quickest way of eliminating consequences of the hackers’ attack.

The last hackers’ attack, which took place last week, drove not only to servers break down but also to serious problems of USA provider Superb Company.

Our technical department jointly with the Superb specialists collect information about the organizers of the attack for competent body in Russia and USA.

We suppose that the organizers of the attack are located in Russia, North-West region. We hope that all organizers of the attack will be punished according to the norms of international and Russian legislation.

Such actions of our business rivals including their black publications on this and other forums at the beginning of this month can not escape our attention and we will do everything for them to get the strictest punishment.

Thanks for the detailed info.

Technical problems are removed now. A site is accessible on instaforex.com

We inform you that the start of the competition is postponed to 13 October, 2008, because of the hackers DDos attack on the company’s servers and unavailability of the main web-site for several days.
Because of multiple requests registration period is also extended till 13 October, 2008.

InstaForex company apologizes for entailing inconvenience and thanks all traders, who decided to take part in the competition with 11500 prize fund, for understanding.

In order to register in the competition follow this link: http://instaforex.com/forex-contest-rules.php?lang=en
To get acquainted with the competition rules you can on the page: http://secure.instaforex.com/en/forex-cont...gistration.aspx
The list of competitors is available on the page: http://instaforex.com/forex-contest-table.php?lang=en

The site is under technical maintenance and is unavailable in the moment. We apologize for entailing inconvenience.

Have you any questions please feel free to contact us with contacts below:
Phone customer support: 7-(4012)774572 (Office hours 8:00-17:00 GMT+00)
+7-800-2000-791 (24/5, toll free for Russia)

ICQ: 350070300

Yahoo Messenger: IFX.Clients

E-mail: support@instaforex.com

Skype: instaforex.support

Office address: 236022, Teatralnaya 30, Office 516
Kalinigrad, Russia

Dear Sirs,

We glad to inform that our web-site http://instaforex.com is available. We have eliminated all consequences of the hackers’ attack.
We thank all our clients for patience and understanding.

Dear traders,
we are pleased to inform you that our web-site instaforex.com is already working stably. All the consequences of hacker's attack were succesfully eliminated.

We would like to inform you that registration in InstaForex Tournament 2008 will be closed in October, 13th. So you still have some days to register.

In order to register in the competition follow this link: http://guard.instaforex.com/en/forex-conte...gistration.aspx
To get acquainted with the competition rules you can on the page: http://instaforex.com/forex-contest-rules.php?lang=en
The list of competitors is available on the page: http://instaforex.com/forex-contest-table.php?lang=en

I have register the demo competition for this broker house,
Hope i can win some pretty cash prize.

Thanks
FBH

Please check whether you have registered in the contest.

I wish you successful trading.

Dear Forum Participants,

Instaforex Tournament 2008 has started yesterday, on October 13th. You can watch current results by checking transactions of participants who has note "yes" in the column "Public" in the contest table http://www.instaforex.com/forex-contest-table.php?lang=en

InstaForex company wishes you successfull trading!

Dear traders,

InstaForex company is glad to inform that when you open a live account with our company you are awarded bonus in the amount of 30 USD.

Summary of the conditions for the bonus receipt:

1. Opening of the live account – Insta.Eurica or Insta.Standart;
2. Minimal deposit not less than 20 USD;
3. Confirmation of the registration data by scan copy of the passport;
4. The opportunity to receive bonus just once in 3 months;
5. 100% withdrawal is possible after total volume of all deals reaches 100 lots.

InstaForex company wishes you successful trading.

can you guys open the site, I can not open it

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by site's unavailablity. The problems were caused by our hosters. But now it is working correctly. You can check.

Dear Traders,

Our company is preparing to create an educational web-site focused on the basic methods of working on Forex.
The web-site will contain useful materials for the novice and experienced traders.

In the name of all team we ask you to share with us all your suggestions regarding the content of the web-site. What information should be reflected on the web-site from your point of you? What recommendations could you give as a novice or experienced trader? Don’t hesitate to give us your own opinion!

Even if your suggestions are not taken fully into consideration we guarantee that we will make a note of them. Trader’s opinion is very important for us.

This is not a commercial Project oriented on profit taking from sales of advisers to the novice traders.

This Project was thought up as a portal of a high-quality, professional resource, created by the experienced people, based on the traders’ requirements and interests.

New market instruments

InstaForex company is glad to inform that the list of the currency market instruments was enlarged up to 107 currency symbols, each of which is available for executing trading operations 24-hours a day.
Now operations is available not only for the most popular currency pairs but also for such exotic currencies like Hungarian Forint, Mexican Pesos, Singapore Dollar and many others.

InstaForex company hopes that provided enlargement of the currency pairs list lets our client to widen their portfolio due to the fuller variety of the word national currencies.

Test trading for this pairs is introduced for the first two weeks due to this increased spreads are set up for the currencies from the Group Crosses 6. The following list of the currency pairs is available:

• CZK - Czech Koruna
• DKK - Denmark Kroner
• HUF - Hungarian Forint
• HKD - Hong-Kong Dollar
• MXN - Mexican Pesos
• NOK - Norway Kroner
• PLN - Polish Zloty
• SEK - Sweden Kronor
• SGD - Singapore Dollar
• ZAR - South Africa Rand

The full list of trading instruments you can view here

InstaForex company is glad to present you a new terminal for mobiles – MetaTrader CE. We made available for our traders not only Internet-trading, but even mobile trading.
New trading terminal allows controlling your account by mobile phone or PDA. The software gives full feature set of InstaTrader but upon all that it does not confine you within space. Wherever you are, with the help of MetaTrader CE you can arrange deals on Forex market, realize technical analysis, receive quotation, news from market and company’s reviews.
All you need for terminal installation is operating system Pocket PC, Windows Pocket PC 2002 and higher.

Download MetaTrader CE for free here.

I have some Chinese clients, but InstaForex did not give them bonus, they are complaining about this to me

We do not accept IDs not in Latin characters.

The reason for this measures are the scan of Id chineese people are not readable for us.