Ok.. so far so good. Account funded quickly. Customer service seems friendly enough. I've experienced one disconnect from MT4 for about 45 seconds.. it was during a trade, which kinda bothered me, but with every other MT4 broker I've found this ...

Pepperstone Forex

That's not going to make anything much faster... and I'd rather have the tick data collected.

Pepperstone Forex

... because I love to trade for the sake of trading. I don't make as much as I used to in my former career, but that will come in time, and till then I have a job now that makes me leap out of bed in the morning and feel bored on the weekends when ...

Why do you Trade Forex?

Not suggesting you don't know your tech but... Can you reproduce the same problem on a clean MT4 install within Windows? I've been demoing their platform within a VM and so far no gaps in connectivity have come up.. but I'm very sensitive to this ...

Pepperstone Forex

MB Trading uses an ECN by TDFX and does this... Sometimes you only get partial fills though, if you tighten the spread with your limit order but only a small market order hits you before the market moves away from that price level.. As well, they ...

ECN with possibility to buy on the BID and sell on the ASK

I do scalp... so this is a concern. I just opened an account with them. I will be testing their execution and will report my findings.

Pepperstone Forex

Very interested in this broker... Is anyone here a current user? What sort of volume do you push through and what is your experience?

Pepperstone Forex

so no help with the firewall problem Jason?

FXCM Discussion

you guys are so anxious to lose money...

MB Trading and deposits by credit card

All you've done is trace it back to a datacentre... In any case, the firewall only goes off when I load a chart within Strategy Trader... I have no other warnings at any other time. It seems to be triggered on a chart by chart basis, for instance, ...

FXCM Discussion

Hey Jason, Hope you can help: I keep getting warnings from my firewall about Strategy Tester whenever I open a chart window... image How do I fix this? Using ESET SmartSecurity 5

FXCM Discussion

If MB trading was only out of the US I could understand, but they have a UK office and thus could provide accounts to Canadians. This is how FXCM operates, they register Canadian clients with their UK office.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

VERY disappointing...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

FXCM UK offers CFDs for the S&P500, Dow 30, many euro indexes, oil... etc... open a demo with them (must be the UK site you setup a demo on) and play around... Though, to be fair, the CFD's aren't going to follow the market (futures, etc.) tick for ...

FXCM Discussion

I'm not noticing any delay on my end... sure it might take a moment to return filled but the price is usually without slippage from what I set it at..

Oanda's Profit Targets

what an unfortunate name

FXPIG discussion

Is MBTrading Forex available to Canadian residents? I looked at the UK site, which says they take international clients, but Canada wasn't an option when signing up for a demo.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I'm really curious about how they were bleeding cash... IBFX spreads weren't the worst but by far were not as tight as others, and they had a very similar model as FXCM without the overhead of maintaining a propitiatory platform.. what am I missing?

TradeStation Acquires IBFX (Interbankfx)

Chicky, Quick question: Why are you trading on demo? Also, good job on seeing the trades through to their respective targets and stop losses...

Lessons Learned Thread

To be blunt.... it appears you just lost too much and closed out your account. Next time, cut your losing trades... letting them run like that really hurt your account.

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