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TradeHero has been selected by the world’s largest software maker, Microsoft, to be featured as one of their case studies for their flagship cloud computing platform and infrastructure, Microsoft Azure. Singapore web app startup, MyHero, devised an ingenious stock-market investment game that enables successful players to earn real money. What they needed was a technology-neutral cloud platform, rapid global-deployment capability and technical support to help their team quickly build the app. With support from the Microsoft BizSpark program, they launched this app within 3 months and the game, TradeHero, is now a stunning success, attracting a quarter of a million players. The mobile app industry is global, and intensely competitive. To be successful, developers need to turn their ideas into reality with exceptional speed. The barriers are huge, however: besides creating the app, developers need a hosting platform that allows

International Enterprise (IE) Singapore is the government agency driving Singapore’s external economy and TradeHero is proud to be featured on their website. Read the interview with our founder Dinesh Bhatia on how he started TradeHero and learning why “succeeding in China was not a matter of exporting its strategy wholesale”. Read it all here. The app draws real-time trade data from 29 major stock exchanges and 10 currencies, as well as precious metals gold and silver. TALK about resilience. 45-year-old Dinesh Bhatia is no stranger to being burnt by the stock market, yet he has managed to turn his losses into an opportunity. The chief executive officer and co-founder of TradeHero says he once suffered a sizeable six-digit loss in the stock market. But instead of keeling over, the tech entrepreneur saw a chance to help others avoid the same

We dedicate the weekends to our TradeHeroes who have been actively trading on our app over the weekdays. Like last week, we interviewed one of our top TradeHeroes in our Macquarie DW Hero Trading Competition. Everybody meet Sophonjariyawat better known by his TradeHero name: Castellan 1) Tell us what you love about TradeHero. I enjoy competitions the organized. 2) Name us your 3 favourite companies to invest in and why? KTC (KRUNGTHAI CARD PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED) - The Net Profit growth greatly exceeded the industry average - Healthy asset quality with stringent provisioning policy - Good PE/G ratio SAWAD (SRISAWAD POWER 1979 PUBLIC COMPANY) - Huge opportunitiess and high growth potential - Aim to open 2000 branches in the long term: Currently, SAWAD has about 1000 branches throughout the country - Expecting new business development as upside in the long

We love our TradeHeroes so much that it’s a shame if you don’t know them behind their usernames. For today, we reached out to one of our top TradeHeroes in our Macquarie DW Hero Trading Competition, Pranodsuk Sritimongkol better known by his TradeHero name: TumKungZ 1) Tell us what you love about TradeHero. I have been investing in Thailand stock market (SET), and just started the commodities and currency pair trading in Forex market. TradeHero application is the best virtual trading platform for me, because I can practice trading for many kind of investment especially in FX before opening the real account. Moreover, the user friendly interface, and the features to communicate and sharing with friend is fabulous and makes more enjoyable. This is everything I love about it. 2) Name us your 3 favorite companies to invest in and

Were you at Tech in Asia Singapore 2015 where Khailee Ng of 500 Startups interviewed our CEO/Founder, Dinesh Bhatia? Learn about his journey towards making the No.1 Finance app in 91 countries, TradeHero.

Read the article written by Digital News Asia here. TradeHero is also running a competition with SGX for our users called SGX StockWhiz 2015 where users can win prizes worth up to S$200,000. SINGAPORE startup MyHero Ltd, the company behind financial learning and stock market simulation app TradeHero, said it has partnered with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to launch the SGX StockWhiz 2015 contest. This follows an agreement with Macquarie Securities Thailand (Macquarie) for DW Hero, a virtual derivative warrants (DW) trading contest. The partnerships would bring financial education, and make financial investments more accessible, to first-time investors, MyHero said in a statement. “Almost three million users on TradeHero’s free-to-download app are millennials, accounting for nearly 80% of its user base,” said MyHero chief executive officer and cofounder Dinesh Bhatia (pic). “In an era where first-time investors are acquiring financial

TradeHero was mentioned by CB Insights as one of the Fin Tech Startups that target the millenial demographics. Read the full article here Fin Tech startups targeting the millennial demographic have raised over $2.29B across 126 deals. They range from ‘robo-advisors’ offering low-cost alternatives to brokerages to lending firms innovating in credit risk to stock-picking and automated savings apps. Spanning a cohort born between 1980 to 2000, millennials broadly make up one of the largest generations in history (bigger than the baby boom generation). Millennials are also investing, lending and sharing money much differently than their parents, and they are assisted by a growing set of tech-driven tools to do so. The changing ways in how millennials manage their money is top of mind for many of the largest financial institutions in the world. In February, Goldman Sachs released an infographic

Our CEO, Dinesh Bhatia has been named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2015! Read all about it here in The Tech Revolutionist! Singapore’s very own Dinesh Bhatia, CEO of TradeHero, has been named by Fast Company Magazine one of its “100 Most Creative People in Business 2015,” for teaching aspiring investors how to make the leap, making financial investment accessible to all. TradeHero, developed in Singapore in 2012, is now the #1 finance app in 91 countries, and in the top 10 in 127 countries, with over 3.6 million users. Dinesh is the only person from Singapore, and to our knowledge, ASEAN, to have made the 2015 list. He is in prestigious company. Previous winners include philanthropist Melinda Gates, entrepreneur Elon Musk, TV personality Oprah Winfrey, music producer Jay-Z, musicians Jay Chou, Lady Gaga, and Jared Leto, comedians Conan O’Brien, Jerry Seinfeldand Aziz Ansari, NBA star and entrepreneur Shaquille O’Neal, author Neil

                            TradeHero was mentioned in Coconuts Singapore for our feature on Tech in Asia Singapore 2015. You can read the article here: http://bit.ly/1AE6BQR Our CEO and co-founder, Dinesh Bhatia shared how TradeHero became the #1 Finance app in 91 countries. Were you there to hear our success story? Can you hear the clacking of keyboards yet? For two days and nights, Tech in Asia Singapore 2015 brings togethers the region’s tech industry movers and shakers as well as young innovators for a series of talks, workshops, speed-dating, games, competitions and pub crawls. Tech in Asia features speakers like SurveyMonkey’s Eli Schwartz who will share tips on how to use date to drive business, and Twitter’s Emily Huo for a keynote address on how startups can use Twitter to their advantage.

Have you always wanted to learn about Forex trading but have no idea where to start? Log in to TradeHero now and join the first ever Forex trading competition sponsored by OANDA. The OANDA FX Challenge starts today with US$15,000 worth of cash prizes to be won! Complete a new Trade Quest every month to qualify for a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy A5 in our monthly lucky draw. Not familiar with FX trading? Fret not! You can learn all about FX by watching the educational videos directly in the TradeHero app. Competition runs from 4th May 2015 until 26 July 2015. See you at the top! Click here to find out more about OANDA FX CHALLENGE 2015