Just to make sure, did you give them your bank's SWIFT code too?

inovaTrade Broker Discussion

Technically you should be doubling it (0.8) to account for the fact that your trades are round-trip. How large were your average trades? If they were anything less than 1M (10 lots) then slippage should not have been issue, unless you just happen to ...

ATC Brokers

You're right, good clarification. I didn't account for any spread differentials, which aside from some of the EUR pairs, look to heavily favor ATC, by a margin equal to or exceeding the rebate factor if the MBT entry is a limit.

ATC Brokers

True, it swings both ways, notional rates were great when GU was north of 2.0. Not so great when AU was <.7500. While on the topic, none of the ECNs were really beating Oanda on a total cost (net commission) basis on most pairs. The MBT program ...

ATC Brokers

It depends entirely on one's trading style. I was already using limits on entries, hence MBT's program has been wonderful. Although many on these forums might discount or overlook the spread/commission factor, lowering your costs over the long-term ...

ATC Brokers

I'm sure they would too, and I'm sure they weighed the pros & cons (I don't think they'd have a problem raising the $20M for net cap). They're one of the biggest IBs, so they probably have a very good rate agreement with FXCM. Even still, I ...

ATC Brokers

I agree, overall they're going in a good direction, they've been on the right path since they first hooked up with Hotspot Retail pre-FXCM. Their rates do leave a bit to be desired though, especially in light of MBT's liquidity rebates. I would like ...

ATC Brokers

That's the current order handling they employ, not the proposed 'upgrade'. I guess they're switching back to the old bridge method of handling partial limits..? Glossed over this on the first glance, thanks for bringing it up shrike. This seems like ...

ATC Brokers

I'm sure this was an FXCM-imposed limitation (not ATC's fault), but I'm surprised this was the case until now.

ATC Brokers

edit - they're back up. They didn't even ping when they were down, so it looks like they switched hosts altogether. Either way, it's odd to have such a downtime during the business day like that..

inovaTrade Broker Discussion

Any resolution?

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

Pivot levels are calculated based upon a 24-hour cycle ending at rollover (1700 EST / currently 2100 GMT). If your MT4 broker doesn't already have the daily candles start/close at that time, you'll want to use an MT4 pivot indicator that allows for ...

Psych Levels, Pivots, and Trendlines - Resurrected

This doesn't make sense. A sell limit is for execution at the limit price or higher. If price was already higher than the sell limit at the time you submitted the order, it would have been instantly executed.

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

Possibly, but it was a pretty big shift. All told, I had suspicions the earlier figures were being multiple-counted, and that the current liquidity figures are more accurate. FXCM bought ODL. Integral (TrueFX) is just a technology company which ...

Dukascopy

Except registration requires $20M net cap. They'd have been better off if they never operated out of Florida and were 100% off-shore to begin with.

inovaTrade Broker Discussion

Can't say I didn't try to warn people.. So they can afford a 2-page spread in the latest issue of e-forex mag, but they can't keep the phone lines on? Wow.. If both phone numbers are cut, that's not a good sign. It's very peculiar that they would ...

inovaTrade Broker Discussion

I noticed this too, just simply looking at their homepage stats. Many of the majors were approaching a billion in depth, but nowadays, they're roughly a third of that during the busy times. I wonder why that changed so much. Of course, since the ...

Dukascopy

1) Simply reconvert when you need to, rather than every trade. In the end, your overall costs should be lower (vs typical auto-conversion at other brokers). Also, try to only convert when your conversion amount is over the amount required for ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

That would explain it. I have never traded from MT4, and have no desire ever to do so. To each their own. Interesting article. Barclays was offline for nearly a full 30 minutes.. url

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

4:48? I've not seen that happen.. Best of luck at Duka and ATC. It never hurts to have accounts at multiple brokers as a hedge against specifically these types of instances.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction