Very interesting thread. I have experimented with sudden spikes but I found that the broker which makes these artificial spikes never filled my orders without slipping me in my disadvantage and making this strategy worthless.

Market Inefficiencies Thread

And what is you experience with the slippage in this style of trading the news spike?

Trading The News Or Fundamental Release

Or he has never submitted a withdrawal form to the broker in order to realize the cruel side of the world... "why did they reverse my trades?"

Currenex news trading

Stace are you up to a Martingale system?

Searching Broker with microlots and leverage 1:500

If I am not wrong it is the Lehman Brother FX Indeces. I noticed this acronym on their offers table using the API.

True story of FXCM 'at best' option

Yes exactly, I have the impression that the brokers try to make their client stations autoclicker capable. Have you noticed how terrific these stations perform with autocklickers? You have 100% fill, even on NFP.... on demo accounts though But ...

True story of FXCM 'at best' option

FXCM's at best is a SCAM. I am struggling to find some free time to buy a very nice domain name like fxcm-atworst dot com and then upload some extremely interesting videos that will burn FXCM. Here is what the videos will show.... The last couple of ...

True story of FXCM 'at best' option

Yeah, right after milking the spike we are after the "after spike".

OANDA Discussion

I think my english are very bad and I cannot explain clearly what I mean. What I am saying is this, lets say that CPI deviates X% from the expected, if that X is "big" enough is it possible to see a move to the opposite direction? Let me know if ...

how do l know the actual outcome of the news

So far I have never noticed the price move to the opposite direction after the news release. What I have seen until now is the price will go crazy 1-2 seconds before the news release but once the news comes out the price moves to the correct ...

how do l know the actual outcome of the news

I had in my mind to do the same thing, not only for MBT but with other Currenex brokers too, but I was wondering even if you see bid==ask do they allow you to place an order under this term?

MBT spreadmeter

Still don't get it. How can somebody spoof the market?

Spike like news?

sccz97 it makes perfect sense but I have one more example, take a look at the attachment. What happened in that case?

Spike like news?

I noticed the same action on Friday 21th of September. Check the USDCAD chart around 12:18EST, it "spiked" down for almost 50pips. What caused this action?

Spike like news?

Yes, it started happening after the "upgrade".

FXCM's "AT BEST" For News

AT BEST == slip me with no mercy So, simple. I am testing FXCM on the news spike the last 3 months (I have spare autoclicks and all my orders are rejected with one of the following error messages: Market Moved Out of liquidity Cannnot Find quote ...

FXCM's "AT BEST" For News

Yes, but this thing cannot happen for all the reports, or it can? Have highly secured areas to announce to the reporters the news and then have a count down to release them. Maybe this is normal for NFP, but what happens with the other news reports?

How does the news spread?