united states 2007 founder leon yohai ceo headquarters athens greece area served worldwide products social trading platform website official website zulutrade is a software company that operates an online and mobile social and copy trading platform . the platform allows users to mimic trades on the forex markets made by often more experienced traders . 1 2 3 4 zulutrade has around one million users and an executed trading volume of over 800 billion . 5 contents 1 history 2 service 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit zulutrade was founded in 2007 by leon yohai ceo 6 and kosta eleftheriou . 7 the company was founded in yohai s living room in the u.s. state of virginia . 6 eleftheriou left the company in 2008 . 7 yohai traded on the fxcm prior to founding zulutrade . he created a software connected to fxcm s api that allowed him to copy trading strategies in his realm of interest . the concept was then put into beta in 2008 . 6 by 2009 the company had over 4 500 expert trader or signal provider portfolios whose trading strategies could be copied by the platform s user base . 8 in 2011 zulutrade was listed among the daily telegraph s start up 100 in the category of finance payments and ecommerce . 9 the company also unveiled several new features including the ability to follow other followers rather than just signal providers 10 and the requirement for signal providers to be profitable in order to receive payment . 11 in november 2012 zulutrade redesigned their website and added more new features including zuluguard . 12 by the end of 2013 the company had around 120 employees 40 of whom were designated for customer support . 6 in may 2014 zulutrade announced a strategic partnership with spotoption to create a social trading platform for binary options . 13 the binary options social trading platform on zulutrade was launched later that year . 5 14 other platforms including optiontrade and roboforex began offering support for zulutrade s binary options service in 2015 . 15 in september 2014 zulutrade expanded in japan through the acquisition of a regulated investment advisor market crew investment advisor co. ltd. and launched its collaboration with local fx retail brokers . the first japanese broker was arena fx co. ltd. 16 in march 2015 zulutrade group announced that the platform was awarded an eu portfolio management license from the european union . the designation made the company a licensed portfolio management company in the eu . 17 service edit the zulutrade service is a social and copy trading online platform that allows users to mimic the investing strategies of trading experts in forex markets . 1 2 the user base is typically split into two categories signal providers and followers . signal providers are generally traders that have developed a strategy willing to share and can be copied by their followers . 6 18 followers can also mimic strategies of the portfolios created by other followers . 10 signal provider compensation fees are based on the success and popularity of their trading strategies . 19 the platform also has several features including zuluguard that automatically unfollows a signal provider if their trading strategies change . lock trade allows users to verify the execution of a trade after the signal has been received . the website also features several social network like features including comments and forums . 12 the platform also has a feature called zuluscript which allows users to create scripts that designate specific parameters as criteria for trading robots known as expert advisors to automatically start making trades . 20 additionally zulutrade operates a binary option social trading platform . 5 see also edit list of foreign exchange companies references edit a b robinson david 27 september 2014 . return of the daytrader can you earn a living by copying other investors . the daily telegraph . retrieved 11 november 2015 . a b hamilton walter 28 november 2009 . americans rushing to invest overseas . los angeles times . retrieved 11 november 2015 . passy charles 2 march 2011 . you snooze you lose . the wall street journal . retrieved 11 november 2015 . social trading platform zulutrade becomes regulated in the eu . business wire . 3 june 2015 . retrieved 11 november 2015 . a b c zulutrade rolls out to binary market . highbeam research . 9 december 2014 . retrieved 11 november 2015 . a b c d e saks mcleod andrew 27 december 2013 . executive interview zulutrade ceo leon yohai discusses the modernization of social trading . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . a b kosta eleftheriou . www.crunchbase.com . crunchbase . retrieved 11 november 2015 . zulutrade.com revolutionizes autotrading of foreign currencies online . . highbeam research . 19 november 2009 . retrieved 11 november 2015 . yiannopoulos milo ; rosenberg david 5 april 2011 . start up 100 the final list by category . the daily telegraph . retrieved 11 november 2015 . a b greenberg michael 31 march 2011 . zulutrade launches a follow a successful follower capability . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . patterson sara 21 november 2011 . zulutrade announces new compensation plan . dailyforex . retrieved 11 november 2015 . a b finberg ron 29 november 2012 . zulutrade gets a makeover . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . hatzakis steven 23 may 2014 . zulutrade exclusive synergy with spotoption brings social trading to binary options . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . golovtchenko victor 18 october 2014 . zulutrade launches its binary options social trading using spotoption s platform . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . mizrahi avi 24 june 2015 . roboforex adds zulutrade support to binary options service . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . mizrahi avi 9 september 2014 . exclusive zulutrade acquires japanese subsidiary and partners with arena fx . finance magnates . retrieved 9 february 2016 . finberg ron 3 june 2015 . zulutrade gains eu portfolio management license in the eu . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . lemon adam 28 october 2015 . who makes money with zulutrade . dailyforex . retrieved 11 november 2015 . greenberg michael 18 november 2011 . zulutrade will pay signal providers only for profitable months charged by nfa . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . hatzakis steven 12 february 2014 . zulutrade s new web based platform lets traders run trading robots via zuluscripts . finance magnates . retrieved 11 november 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zulutrade & oldid 730982072 categories financial services companies of the united statesfinancial derivative trading companiesforeign exchange companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages polski edit links this page was last modified on 22 july 2016 at 03 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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