Never had slippage on Oanda. This may not apply if you have unrealistic expectations and think you should be filled on the initial NFP release gap. I only trade news action after the initial gap and peak with no problems. If you want to get on the ...

Quick Question about Slippage

Oanda loves winners, the news time widening spread reflects what happens on the interbank market. You need to ask yourself what you prefer more, not widening spreads but impossible to trade at news time or manual requotes or impossible slippage ...

Oanda. Price Feed Data

It's bleeding and may be corrected by unchecking 'enable write combining' in your advanced display properties. Also try updating your graphics card drivers. Even better, get rid of Win98, it's crap. You'd want the best tech foundations for your ...

Oanda platform problems

Forex is a zero sum game only in the sense that it doesn't create new wealth directly as creating/producing something would. But the amount of money in the game is not fixed nor limited. It's a game of many things all at once, economics, perception ...

Trading IS Gambling...

More position traders at Oanda who don't cut an interest positive but losing trade, carry traders, gridders, poolers, averagers. The winning longs are there too but they just trade the upside move and get out. Most of the danglers are probably quite ...

sentiment of traders at Oanda and FXCM

Oftentimes the after action actually is very predictable and the easiest money to be made out there. Only a few times there is crazy whiplash into both directions.

Immediate market reaction on news are still the same ?

If a low spread is your main criteria Interactive Brokers charges a commission of 0.2 pips per trade. But the ask/bid spread is still there on the market and that can vary huge. In my view Oanda's spreads are the most consistent in the business, ...

Pip spread on Interbankfx

Oanda is always open, including weekends I have closed and opened trades on weekends on weekend spreads (usually 10 pips) numerous times due to more news and information leaking out over the weekend. Paying a 5 pip close spread is nothing ...

Quick dumb question - markets open Monday?

Who the hell deals with dealing desks, requotes and manual execution today when Oanda has offered full straight-through execution since 2001. I really don't get it.

Info on ECN brokers

Oanda works like an ECN in the sense that all net market exposure is traded on the market. Their value proposition is that despite this, they give you variable amount trading, no lots or mini lots but can trade any amount position. One single dollar ...

Info on ECN brokers

These are usually network connectivity problems. Fxtrade working just fine here. I have had some network problems for a week or so and been thrown out on average once a day, every time the problem is on the local ISP or the network path, not ...

Oanda's site q

One should be prepared for extreme movements on NFP and other important news releases. 80 pip instaspikes are common. I understand the core complaint of being quoted a price 20 pips out of line but really, 20 pips during such volatility is nothing. ...

Stop Hunting

I have used them for macro move gambling, the odds are bordering on reasonable when you reach triple payout or higher. Bought upside boxes with eurusd in 1.16 and 1.18 levels. Could also make it a momentum gamble where you only lose if it stays ...

Oanda Box Options

8500 lots huh you pushing a yard? 17 max size trades at Oanda would be 170 million not many pushing that much either. You real or dreamin.

Maximum amount you would keep with your broker?