Other recap Losing money since 2009?! Sold for less than half what its VC invested in it 4 years ago?! Ouch... A "fire sale" indeed. I'm only guessing these guys never figured out how to run a profitable B book, simply astonishing..

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Well said.

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I would just write to IB FX support and get their official stance. I doubt that their LPs are passing along volume data to IB, but it's possible.

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Any insight as to whether that was a business decision or a regulatory issue?

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That's any given quarter, and the data set isn't static (new accounts are added, old accounts get blown up, etc). Extrapolating a static sample set of FX traders over a longer period of time will show a gradual succumbing to the 90%+ failure rate.

Why do 99% of the people who wants to be traders fail?

Is 1-minute day available via API going further back than 2011?

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Ok interesting, so it's still a hybrid model of on-the-book liquidity + STP bank streams like everywhere else (sans EBS & Reuters). I was under the impression all of Hotspot's liquidity was directly executable (including bank streams), but I guess ...

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Hey Flash, nice to see you here, glad things are going well. There was some discussion on this topic earlier on in this thread. With regards to Hotspot, is their liquidity also directly executable like CME/EBS/Reuters? Basically, is the liquidity ...

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This was effectively the same experience I had with a CNX prime I tried a few years back (except it was between a live-view test feed, and funded account live-view). Almost seemed like bait & switch.. Let us know what you hear back from their IT.

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They ended their partnership awhile back, FXOpen ECN is a separate feed now.

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FlashCall is the local expert on this. I'm quoting him from PM: "if you must login to PRET (ProductionRETail) you will have the Viking aka Margin Classic stuff...that is b-booked...if you login to fxtrades.currenex.net or thru currenx.com you have ...

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But either way, your funds are with a prime. And if you think primes are any more secure than the best retail outfits, talk to the HFs that had their prime accounts locked out in the Lehman failure. fwiw, IB accounts are insured up to $100M.

dbFX (Deutsche Bank)

I was pretty much of this mindsest for a few years, chasing institutional platforms. I tried a few, but ended up going back to the retail ECNs (IB & MBT in my case). Unless you're doing really large volume (>10M a clip), I don't see the benefit.

dbFX (Deutsche Bank)

Only to non-US citizens, same as FXCM UK.

no regulations stopping US residents from opening offshore accounts

Interesting, I assume they don't work with US clients?

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And I'm sure if I gave the keys of a Ferrari GTO to my girlfriend, she'd still find a way to drive it into a ditch, but it doesn't speak ill of the quality of Ferrari. While these reports are interesting to see, let's not forget that ...

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It's a bit odd how her bangs cover her eyebrows, but her accent is a definite turn on..

Instaforex video.. Biggest laugh I've ever had!

Made a very comfortable living trading CME futures before switching over to spot. If they had liquid cross rates, they'd be king.

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Interesting thanks. I'm guessing they link into FXCM ActiveTrader via API (without having to use FXCM's atrocious flash frontend)? Although I guess it's either flash or .NET, pick your poison.. .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 or higher What happened to good ...

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Hard to say then, slippage of several pips on that low of an amount is peculiar. These were stop orders executed in quiet conditions? This is why I don't trade with just a bid/ask feed (anything non-ECN, which technically includes ATC MT4). From ...

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