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<h1>Two hot stocks set to explode into this new year are QIWI and GAIN Capital Holdings</h1>

They have already started to rise, but there is plenty of room to run!

<h2>GAIN Capital Holdings (GCAP)</h2>

There are many catalysts that will send GAIN higher in the near term. The main one being that they have just allowed <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gain-capital-launches-bitcoin-trading-on-city-index-300565054.html ">Bitcoin trading</a> through their exchange. 

This will be done without the need for wallets or any cryptocurrency exchange by use of contract for difference (CFD). Much like how the market trades gold without even the option to take possession of it, this will work in a similar manner. Love it or hate it, it is standard practice in the financial world because it is easy and as long as everyone keeps faith in the system it works. 

The important thing to realize is the GAIN will earn income from the volume of trades. It matters not if Bitcoin goes up or down, they will receive a piece each time one of these CFDs is traded. 

<h4>Benefits of GCAP’s CityIndex include:</h4>
<li>GCAP customers can go long or short</li>
<li>Ability to use 4x leverage with small account sizes.</li>
<li>The fees and spreads involved are a small fraction vs. existing exchanges/wallets (spreads as low as $50 with GCAP vs. as high as $1,000 on exchanges)</li>
<li>Far lower dollar margin size than for Bitcoin futures</li>
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Now GAIN has an already established trading platform, CityIndex https://www.cityindex.co.uk/, having been established in 1999. The company is profitable without including the new Bitcoin platform, which limits downside risk. In fact, this new area of trading comes with very little additional cost to GAIN. 

The Bitcoin launch is only for the UK branch of the company, but they plan on rolling this out to the US side in Q1 2018. I must tell you that the UK branch is not just the UK but basically the rest of the world, not including North America. The user base is mainly from the Middle East and Asia. Which is perfect timing as Asian countries such as South Korea are clamping down on the cryptocurrency exchanges that the people from those countries use. 

Including after hours, shares are up 40% today alone. Currently sitting at $11.40. I believe that there is still room to run, $20+ is a very reasonable price to meet in short order. Cryptocurrency hype could push this stock past that price. 
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<h2>QIWI Plc. (QIWI)</h2>
This company is just starting to pop into the Blockchain stock investors view.

QIWI is a payment processing company that operates mainly in Russia. They have over 160,000 kiosks that allow customers to pay bills as well as to transfer and receive money. The system works by each user having a virtual wallet that is loaded by way of a Visa PrePaid Card. Customers can also insert cash into the machines to fund their wallets. 
This business has done well for this company and they have received revenues of $327 million with free cash flow of nearly $66 in the past twelve months. Currently they are sitting on $288 million in cash and have zero debt. 

They were also among the first financial companies to see that Blockchain will be the future of the financial payment world and so have been investing and creating within the Blockchain sector for some time now. Heck, it <a href="http://forklog.net/russian-central-bank-takes-a-favorable-view-of-bitruble/">pitched creation</a> of a cryptocurrency called BitRuble to the Russian Central Bank back in 2015. 

After some smaller Blockchain projects and partnerships during 2016, QIWI really started getting serious when they <a href="https://financefeeds.com/qiwi-establishes-blockchain-subsidiary/">created a subsidiary</a> called Qiwi Blockchain Technologies (QBT) in March of 2017. 

In May, they acquired the startup InspiRussia which lists many FinTech areas of interest on its website. 
<li>Blockchain</li>
<li>Big data</li>
<li>Insurtech</li>
<li>Scoring</li>
<li>Security</li>
<li>BankTech</li>
<li>AI</li>
<li>Bots</li>
<li>Bank as a service and open Infrastructure</li>
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In October, QIWI joined R3 – a consortium of banks. The goal of R3 was to create a single financial platform that all banks would use, ending the inefficiencies of multiple legacy platforms. What was created is called Corda, a Blockchain platform. 

Soon they will have a prototype cross-border payments platform that member banks will use. Among those banks are well-known ones such as HSBC, TD Bank, and U.S. Bank.

But I believe that the most interesting thing is that the CEO holds a lot of shares and was offered a premium price of $28 per share to sell half his holdings back in June (shares currently trade for $16.24). He did not sell any. Does he see them worth more than that $28? 

With further news about any QIWI/QBT Blockchain developments, the market could very much send this stock surging past that price. 

52-Week-High: $26.55
52-Week-Low: $11.60
Current: $16.24