Listening to broken records: Worst press release for some time

Since I’ve been ranting – sorry, I mean offering my informed commentary about the wonderful world of FX – I like to think that I have helped improve the standard of puff and PR that is routinely sent out. But this week I got one of the worst press releases I’ve seen for some time about a retail platform that, “experienced the highest volumes of trading during January 2008 since its launch.” It went on to say, “nearly half of all trades executed during January...were Euro/USD transactions, compared to an average of 15% in the three months prior to August’s credit crunch of 2007.”