What is iQbyQi And How Does it Benefit Retail Traders: SquaredFinancial CEO Husam Alkurdi Speaks

SquaredFinancial recently partnered with Quant Insight to offer traders AI-backed analytics - iQbyQi. With this partnership, SquaredFinancial has become the first company to offer its customers access to iQbyQi’s cutting edge analytics, backed by AI, Machine Learning and Data Science.

Today, BrokersView is honored to have the CEO at SquaredFinancial, a multi-regulated and Cyprus-based brokerage, to join us. In this exclusive interview, Mr. Husam Alkurdi is here to introduce iQbyQi and discuss how iQbyQi benefits individual investors. 

BrokersView: Could you please briefly introduce iQbyQi to our investors?

Husam: Allow me first to mention that SquaredFinancial is the first fintech brokerage to offer its clients access to iQbyQi’s cutting-edge analytics backed by AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. These analytics are developed by Quant Insight (Qi), the leading quantitative financial market analytics provider. This partnership – SquaredFinancial x Qi - allows retail traders to have access to institutional grade analytics and insights that will help them make better trading decisions.

BrokersView: Qi has used its ‘world-first’ technology to provide unique macro insights exclusively for the institutional world with some of the world’s best known investment banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Could you tell us more about this “world-first” technology?

Husam: Subjective opinions and analysis can be found everywhere in financial markets, which can at times simply confuse traders and stop them from making the right decisions when it comes to their investments. iQbyQi’s technology and insights are based on data science, AI and machine learning; they are validated by world-leading experts in machine learning from Cambridge, Harvard and Princeton, and led by experienced macro hedge fund portfolio managers including Brevan Howard, Fidelity, and Tier 1 investment banks such as Morgan Stanley and UBS. They use a cloud-based AI “market brain” which analyses millions of data points in real time, understands how they are all connected to market prices, highlights opportunities and risks, then broadcasts insights and analytics.

Today, this very exciting technology is now accessible to all our clients, including retail clients, a resource which we hope they will make the most of.

BrokersView: Can iQbyQi provide technical analysis of trading signals? And does it analyze all the trading instruments, including forex, commodities, energies, indices, stocks, and even crypto?

Husam: iQbyQi provides daily analytics and insights, daily signals, and a weekly video discussing the markets. The instruments include FX pairs, equities, indices, ETFs, and even crypto… so basically every instrument a trader can choose to invest in.

BrokersView: How to get the iQbyQi? What is the cost?

Husam: iQbyQi is offered for free to all our clients. To benefit from these insights and analytics, all you need to do is open a trading account with us, and you will automatically start receiving iQbyQi in your inbox.

BrokersView: What other trading support is SquaredFinancial providing to the investor?

Husam: We believe that traders should understand markets before they start their trading journey, that’s why we offer our clients educational tools to help them better understand what impacts markets, the changes that they witness, as well as major events that might affect sentiment and volatility. We also provide asset management-based strategies to those who don’t have the experience or time to trade on their own.

BrokersView: What is your personal opinion, to our investors on what is the key to healthy trading?

Husam: I personal believe that heathy trading requires a strategy, patience, and lots of psychology. As an investor, before you take a position in the market, you need to know your risk profile and set investment goals, which leads to setting the right strategy. Most importantly, you should follow this strategy no matter how the markets go, because that’s how you minimize your losses. Don’t forget to always stay updated of market changes, signals and news, and check how the markets are impacted.

BrokersView: CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk, with 60-80 percent of individual trading accounts losing money, as there is a significant knowledge, experience and resources gap that iQbyQi aims to fill. What are the useful risk management strategies that you and iQbyQi can provide to investors?

Husam: SquaredFinancial offers many investment programs with minimum risk and competitive conditions. These are planned methods used for buying and selling in the markets. Based on preset rules and criteria, the investor can make their trading decisions. But there are a few things an investor should take into consideration before choosing any trading strategy: 1) decide whether they are trading based on fundamental (performance) or technical analysis (market trend), 2) define their investment style, that is whether they are aiming for growth or value, trend, etc., and 3) determine their view of the market sentiment.