This 'volume' display apparently is a source of much confusion. Probably should be done away with, or renamed to Tick-Volume or similar.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I have been logged in all day (nav sdk) and still am, getting quotes too. So the quote servers appear to be operational at least. Can't reach website neither, tho.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I wouldnt count on future regulation being rational, i.e. the Pattern daytrader rule and 4:1 leverage-limitation in the stockmarket, as a response to the internet bubble, was anything but rational. Of course this only affected samller retail traders ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Why should maximum deviation only work on MM platforms? This could be impemented on an ECN by sending a marketable limit order instead of a market-order. You can do this in Desktop Pro, so there is no reason it shouldn't work in MBT's mt4. Avoiding ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

The plugin-container is a firefox process (since 3.6.4) where the browser isolates all plugins (so that when a plugin crashes it doesnt take the whole browser app with it). You could test this again with Internet explorer and an earlier Firefox ...

FXCM active trader web price lag & slippage

Yes, there are pros and cons. But the 64-second/70 pip slippage situation is unacceptable in my opinion. Maybe there should be an additional order-type or order-tag that specifies to immediatly take the first fill available from the LP that is on ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Well dont send a market order if you wont accept slippage, send a marketable limit.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I don't think thats the best possible solution. When sending a market order, for me, that means i want a fill NOW, and im willing to accept slippage (fast market or not). If im not willing to accept slippage, i would send a limit, or if i would be ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

ha-pattern: there is no way in hell there is a legitimate reason for a marketorder to take 64 seconds to fill. Its a glitch of some sort. If Justin would comment on the issue, im sure he would tell you the same. The whole point of a market order is ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Justin: what percentage of the fills on MB are client to client and how many are client to bank (guessing thats top-secret info..)? From watching L2 it seems that 99% of the time LPs sit on the inside quotes. Also, does that mean the quotes from LPs ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Yes Hotspot appears to be one of the few that actually act as genuine matching venue (ala Globex), whereas most others appear to just aggregate LP quotes, route to the best bid/offer-destination and see what comes back.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Come on.. look at my chart i posted, there were plenty of bid prices between his stop level and the low of the move, and there were 32 seconds between the time the bid traded through his stop at 5275 and the fill at 5191. More than half a minute to ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

If he had indeed a pending stop-sell order at 1.5276, it seems to me he should have been filled somewhere around that price and not that far away. Attached is a 1-tick chart of bid-price updates from the MB live server of the time in question. As ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Thats no solution. According to JLeBlang they didnt know if the trade got executed or not until a few hours after the fact. So you cant hedge it since you dont know your position, or you might even rack up 2x the losses if you are unlucky. Besides, ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Look at your account statement. P/L from trades take 2 days (google for tomorrow/next) to settle. Until then, your realized P/L is in the quote-currency (i.e. JPY for an usd/jpy trade). That affects your equity, but minimal.

Dukascopy

Thats not what their website says and is an assumption on your part only. Besides, its not only about 1000 unit orders. For example, Hotspots minimum trade is 250K (acctually they reccomend 500K since that is the minimum match size on their network ...

Dukascopy

Another thing about their quotes (apart from the half pips) is, since they lowered ther minimum lot size to 1000 BCU, that theoretically, they would always have to quote one of the destinations that accept such small orders in the inside market. For ...

Dukascopy

So they show 0.5 pip increments but really fill with 0.1 pecision because a subset of their LPs only quotes in 0.5? Is there any particular logic or reason for that? I'm afraid more clarification is needed.

Dukascopy

So what? You can have LPs quoting in half pips and others quoting in 1/10 pips together on one platform without problems. Hotspot (one of their destinations according to their website) quotes in 1/10s - what happens to the rounding residual? Either ...

Dukascopy

Wondering if they will ever go decimal..

Dukascopy