There are various factors that affect slippage; not only the speed of the matching/order handling system of the ECN, but also the processing speed of the trader's computer, the quality and speed of the connection through which the order is sent, and ...

Slippage Study

Good. Don't back down. After they credit your account, disclose their name. People should know about these scams and the NFA should be going after the REAL criminals in this business - the retail, dealing desk bucket shops. I can probably guess who ...

Can a broker execute a market order 1 minute 11 seconds after one clicked the price??

For the most part, you're right - but even if they add "you agree to let us take minutes to confirm the trade and screw you without vaseline in the process," to the agreement, it makes it an unconscionable agreement. A firm cannot do whatever the ...

Can a broker execute a market order 1 minute 11 seconds after one clicked the price??

Exactly. I can't believe people are still doing this. All orders during news time should be either Limit or FOK (plus a minus a slippage factor). In fact, market orders should never be used in my opinion. Why take the risk of having the market gap ...

Can a broker execute a market order 1 minute 11 seconds after one clicked the price??

No; it's not legitimate for them to do that. I've seen it happen too at some MT4 firms. That's why we don't use any retail type broker to handle serious money anymore. Are they in the US? If I were you, I would tell them if they don't reverse it, ...

Can a broker execute a market order 1 minute 11 seconds after one clicked the price??

And the hits just keep on coming!

FOREX.COM's trading platform is really nice!

I think everybody understands this already, so can we push this thread back into oblivion? I cast the first vote.

FOREX.COM's trading platform is really nice!

Why would someone dig out a 3 year old, irrelevant thread to post on it?

FOREX.COM's trading platform is really nice!

Avenger, I have seen this happen to another trader (who is currently part of our team) in the past; not just at Oanda, but at other retail shops as well. Some people here imply that Oanda does an auto pass-throught of all orders. I bet my left nut ...

changing presepctive on Oanda

I agree. Let's wait for him to reply; but it won't be the first time I see something like this happen. As I have mentioned before, I know a few other very experienced traders I know who have experienced problems as well in the past; traders I have ...

changing presepctive on Oanda

I agree with you. It will help others when the details are explained - but I don't think it was news related. He's in the UK (so he's sleeping) and I have Skyped him to explain things. I will not disclose anything on him though, as I have not been ...

changing presepctive on Oanda

And it happened again to him after that. I was with him on Skype.

changing presepctive on Oanda

Talk about fair dealing!

changing presepctive on Oanda

Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf... — I don't think Little Red Ridding Hood should ask the big, bad wolf if he eats little children or not. I wouldn't; but then again, I'm a pessimist when it comes to brokers.

Scalping with Forex.com?

No; you cannot trade taking 1 pip profits on a continuous basis with Forex.com. It won't work. Furthermore, why would you want to scalp on such high spreads? I saw your demo reports and backtests. It seems that you're allowing unrealized losses to ...

Scalping with Forex.com?

Guaranteed an exit? There's no such thing as guranteed stops, despite what some bucket shops are saying. MBT is not a bucket shop; please don't get me wrong, but if the price gaps through your stop, you'll get the next available price after the ...

changing presepctive on Oanda

OK, Xaron; now I get you. I thought that they only provided 1 tick every 5 seconds no matter how you trade with them; but now you clarified it - all their ticks are available via API. I guess what they're doing is throttling the data. This is common ...

changing presepctive on Oanda

If this is correct, it's pretty crappy. 1 new tick update every 5 seconds?!?!? If you do a tick analysis on an institutional price feed, you notice that in 5 seconds you usually have many ticks. I know this because via API we are able to log all ...

changing presepctive on Oanda

These are important questions, but I don't think the answer is as easy as X amounts of pips or T time IMHO.

changing presepctive on Oanda

No; never traded with them - but I have worked with excellent traders that have and the delays [though not frequent] are there. Other traders [that I don't know as well] have also PM'ed me and mentioned this. The financial institution [allocator] ...

changing presepctive on Oanda