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Martin Slaney

Director of Global Dealing Operations at GFT

Martin Slaney is Director of Global Dealing Operations at GFT in London, and has been with the company since having joined as a founder in 2006. Slaney's career in financial derivatives began in 1995 at City Index, where after working in the back-office he was fortunate enough to be recruited to help establish an Australian office. After returning to work on the London dealing desk, Slaney co-founded Financial Spreads in 1999, and headed up the pioneering on-line trading desk.

In 2003 Slaney set up a binary betting exchange and then established the online trading operations of WorldSpreads.

He studied Japanese and Business Studies at Sheffield University and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the City of Birmingham University.

  • No chance of a Christmas rest as markets stay under pressure
    Monday 19th December 2011, 3:18am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    AFTER failing to break above resistance at 5,600 (the 61.8 per cent Fibonacci Retracement of this year’s May-to-August sell-off) last week, the FTSE100 pulled back sharply. Sentiment turned negative... [Read more]
  • FTSE sees big intra-day swings on varied reports
    Monday 12th December 2011, 3:06am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    WE continue to experience big intra-day swings in equity markets. Last week, the FTSE 100 broke above resistance at 5,600 (the 61.8 per cent Fibonacci Retracement of this year’s May-to-August sell-... [Read more]
  • EU summit the new focus as investors waver over the euro
    Monday 5th December 2011, 3:06am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    LAST week saw an extraordinary turnaround in equity markets. The index bounced off 5,100 and shot higher with barely a backward glance. The FTSE 100 tacked on more than eight per cent over the period... [Read more]
  • Traders keeping a close eye on FTSE after drop to 5,100
    Monday 28th November 2011, 3:12am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    GLOBAL equities continued to tumble last week with many indices crashing through technical support areas. At the start of the week, the FTSE gapped below its 50-day moving average around 5,350 and... [Read more]
  • Rumoured ECB loans to IMF will keep all eyes on the euro
    Monday 21st November 2011, 3:38am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    ONCE again, investors spent last week battling with the effects of Europe’s ongoing debt crisis. Italian, French and Spanish bonds all fell sharply despite support from the ECB. The European Central... [Read more]
  • Markets hoping for economic decisions
    Monday 14th November 2011, 3:36am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    WEDNESDAY’S sharp sell-off across major global stock indices showed just how skittish markets are currently. The slump in Italian bond prices did the damage as yields flew higher. The situation... [Read more]
  • Greek affairs so labyrinthine even Theseus would struggle
    Monday 7th November 2011, 3:30am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    INVESTORS and traders alike spent most of last week dazed and confused. Equity, bond, commodity and FX markets swung around wildly as they responded to headline news out of Greece and G20. There was... [Read more]
  • Bullish October shows that investors were not spooked
    Monday 31st October 2011, 2:41am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    OCTOBER has a reputation for being a troublesome month for financial markets, and memories of the 1987 crash still linger. So stock market bulls have been cheered by the four-week rally, although... [Read more]
  • Chinese manufacturing data starts a busy week
    Monday 24th October 2011, 3:14am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    THIS is set to be a busy week as market participants get to grips with a pile of economic data, US corporate earnings and the second act of the EU summit this Wednesday. CHINA MANUFACTURING PMI The... [Read more]
  • G20 and US earnings set to be positive catalysts
    Monday 17th October 2011, 2:28am GMT
    MARTIN ON THE MARKETS
    MARTIN SLANEY
    AREVIVAL in hopes that the Eurozone crisis can and will be contained will continue to spur stocks higher this morning. The mood of the market certainly seems to be leaning towards the positive, and... [Read more]
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