Yes, half an hour down time is quite long for fx. Altho futures are down for an entire hour each day. As for the trading halts, every exchange has something like this, and every exchanges names and operates this differently. Some name it volantility ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

You can sign up and look for yourself, it just takes a few minutes. Its certainly not as deep as a good currenex provider but i guess it can compete with the likes of alpari pro or pfg and such. They only went live a few weeks ago, so probably not ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

I have been watching their pricing since the last week, fx does have pretty tight spreads. Especially gbp/usd, its mostly at 1.0 to 1.1 pips during euro/american hours. Not sure about their cfd products, of course its always cheaper to trade the ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

Heh. Have you actually looked them up in the FSA register? (To save you 10 seconds of your time: they are not registered). How do you always find these sites anyways.

One Financial Markets - Good or Bad?

I guess its essentially bully tactics - as an international firm with interests in the western hemisphere, you certainly dont want to end up on the US shitlist, and wouldnt risk soliciting us customers. Especially not as a FX firm, who need ...

Dukascopy

Your conclusion is wrong. There are many examples where american regulation affect business in Europe. Just for example, CMC Markets, IG Index and all other cfd firms do not accept american customers, since like forever. Google for "greencompany ...

Dukascopy

cloggie: and those funds are allowed to solicit money from non-ECP/retail clients? Just wondering, never heard of a Delaware fx fraud. They all appeared to have moved from Switzerland (after they tightened up) to Cyprus or Mauritius. to the op: i ...

steps to follow when a broker scams you?

I only know that in ANY semi-serious regulatory regime its is absolutely forbidden for a firm that has only remotely to do with financial services(be it outright portfolio management, advising or only acting on an agency basis) to accept ...

steps to follow when a broker scams you?

Ok, but that means also they arent allowed to offer their service in other EU countries as well. CySec (or any other EU regulator) would have to issue a so called passport for that.

steps to follow when a broker scams you?

Oh, so its really an outright fraud. Guessing 5 minutes of googling never hurts before sending money over. Who would have thunk..

steps to follow when a broker scams you?

Not exactly familiar with Cyprus, but it being member of the EU it must adhere to minimum standards according to Mifid - so they do have some sort of regulation. By the way, i doubt they can treat eu-citizens and cyprus citizens differently. ...

steps to follow when a broker scams you?

Cyprus govt has passed a law this summer to establish a "Financial Ombudsman" office. I dont know if this is operational yet (probably not). Its planned to be very simmilar to the one in the UK. The ombudsman is supposed to settle disputes between ...

steps to follow when a broker scams you?

The FIX protocol doesn't have a capability to deliver data-history at all. Its just used for realtime market-data and order-submission. Thats not dukas fault, its just the way fix is.

Dukascopy

They used to provide historical bid/ask ticks over their API in the past, but stopped it some time ago. Now only bid ticks are available (via the last-flag). eSignal still provides their historical bid/ask tick data, but of course its not free. ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Legitimate russian bussinesmen..

Dukascopy

Quarterly, as per cftc rules.

OANDA Discussion

If a dukas stop+slippage setting is anything like a stop-limit order like on other ecs, it shouldn't fill below limit-price, PERIOD. Its either faulty design or sloppy implementation. The way this works now makes the slippage setting basically ...

Dukascopy

So the resulting limit order should have been at 83 (stop@85 - 2 pip slippage) but was actually posted ~20 pips lower (probably where the mkt was at that time due to the gap) ? This slippage setting doesnt sound too useful to me, if it really gets ...

Dukascopy

Just FYI, EBS added support to 100K lots and 1/10 pip pricing recently (a few months ago).

FXCM's Profitability Report!!!

So does that mean MB Trading is dishonest, since they only have about 25% ? Im with TraderKGB on this one.

FXCM's Profitability Report!!!