Marketdata on IB Demo is totally useless, its delayed and not showing the whole book by far. IB clients get a papertrading account - thats more like a real demo account with live marketdata.

IB interactivebrokers.com - how is your experience?

GMT+2 makes perfect sense, since then the day-break will be at the same time as roll-over downtime (17:00 EST pretty much at every firm including UK) - when positions will get rolled to the next day and get a new cost basis.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

JLB said that MBT payed LPs for adding liquidity even before this change. I think this only makes sense if they also pay a fee as aggressor(like on ebs), otherwise this sounds totally uneconomic. My guess is that an LP still comes out way ahead, i ...

MB Trading's forex announcement next week -just hype or possible game changer?

EBS has a passive/aggressive commission scheme as well (but only lower commission for price-makers, no rebates). Its going to be interesting how much the impact on displayed liquidity will be. One possible problem tho: i guess there will now be much ...

MB Trading's forex announcement next week -just hype or possible game changer?

Justin: are there volume breaks for price makers as well - like there are for price takers already?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Can you post the tweet? I dont see it on the page. Sounds good. P.S. nvm, just found the link

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I guess its some fancy tech thing. I dont think its platform-related tho. Desktop Pro is very new, and the web-client and the mobile-clients are already on their website. Probably not commission-related either. In the end, their job is to fill ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

xaron: mt4 or mt5? Any upsets during your betatest, or does it work as intended, by and large?

is Oanda really a good choice for trading?

Different commission for passive/aggressive orders? maybe.. in the end it always comes down to filling customer oders one way or another, i doubt it will be something really revolutionary, there are only so many ways to skin a cat. Justin, giev hint! ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

So you will change my way how i trade forever by the 25th. Good luck with that..

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

No, people from most of the EU can sign up, but accounts are available only in GBP for now.

LMAX = revolution?!?

Justin, can you give more info about the european branch? Will there be access to european stocks, Eurex and Liffe too?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

No spike in the SI future on CME. eSignal XAG spot (composite datafeed from several sources) has a low of 29.60, so they have a smaller spike vs. Oanda's 29.40 low.

OANDA Discussion

3 weeks of ticks is extensive, compared to paid services like eSignal or IQfeed. API-history is pretty solid and reliable, especially for a free service. I think it would be good enough to provide more data for download via web-server as text or csv ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Yes platform is fine. They should bring in more marketmakers, 3 LPs is not enough. Maybe the initial very tight spreads were some sort of promotion. They had a solid ~1 pip spread on gbp/usd for the first few weeks, which is the lowest i have seen ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

Seems to me that spreads for fx got a bit worse. gbp/usd used to be around 1 pip when they started. eur/usd and usd/jpy are a bit wider too.

LMAX = revolution?!?

Huh? In the last screenshot eur/usd had 80+ million in the book, and it wasnt even scrolled down to see the entire depth. What were you expecting? A billion with 1 pip spread?

Best ECN

It looks to me that the entire quote-server(s) is behind - not individual banks. Its showing the same quotes as other brokers, just 15 seconds later in time. The situation gets better a few minutes after the news release. Maybe it just needs more ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

They lag everytime on major figures, sometimes more than 20 seconds. Dont trust the data you see until 10 minutes or so after the release and get a 2nd/3rd data-source to cross-check quotes. If you have to trade during this time, use limits - price ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Futures options on CME. You can look at realtime quotes at: url then click FX in the menu and go to EuroFX (either american or european style).

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