Use 'bounds' if you are worried about slippage.

Is Oanda good for 10-20 lots scalping?

The longer you hold your trades and the less often you trade, swaps/rolls will become more important over spreads and commissions. A few pips + or - wont affect your overall P/L much if you hold traders for a few days or longer, but the rolls will ...

broker for position trader

You can use esignal for charts/data (works together with ninja too), but it will cost you $150+ per month, thats a bit expensive just for charts. MB says they are working on backfill data of their own and it should be ready 'soon', but then again ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

How 'fast' a tick-based chart is obviously depends on how many ticks a datafeed sends, which varies from broker to broker. You can try mbtrading with ninjatrader (works with a MB demo account). MB transmits anything between 500-1000 ticks in 5 ...

Quality data feed & Tick chart Questions

I use them since ~2 month, so far it works as expected. I did choose them because they appear to be a quite solid company, have been around since a long time, and seem to be somewhat well regarded among bigger traders as well (altho on their ...

MarketMakers

fxtrader42: can you tell how HotspotFXi compares to their retail platform in terms of spread and liquidity?

MarketMakers

Why do you want to send funds via paypal? Euro wire-transfers within the EU are completly free, and as far as i know paypal charges a fee..

OANDA Discussion

eSignal provides 10 days of tick-data (all bid/ask quotes), 120 days of intraday bar data (1 minute resolution, bid-based) and daily bars since inception. This is the actual data from the Hotspot retail platform, they have Hotspot FXi data too, but ...

New Hotspot client-platform

50/50 ? I guess every client gets the manager they deserve

Info on starting to managed account

I have seen those spreads too on the demo, but its a bit different on the live platform. Biggest i saw was 20-25 for the first 20-30 seconds of a release, then they go back to normal pretty fast. Its still pretty messy immediatly after the release, ...

New Hotspot client-platform

That would be fantastic. Maybe i can finally ditch eSignal if your history proves to be reliable. If you need any beta-testers, let me know.

Brokers with API

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25 Delta Risk Reversals?

The MT4 bridge they mention on their website is for brokers who want to offer MT4 and hedge thier clients position using Hotspot, its not for individual traders. I agree, charting on their new platform is not really great. eSignal is pretty good for ...

New Hotspot client-platform

IFSC appears to be the 'regulatory authority' in Belize, in the 'About us' page of their site they say their home is on the British Virgin Islands. You have to wire the money to an account in of a bank bank located on an island of the lesser ...

Anybody knows anything about Moneyforex.com broker

Its 100000 units of the base currency, so 0.3 lots would be 30000 units. For example a long Eur/Usd trade assuming a rate of 1.5850 would translate to: +30000 Eur / -47550 Usd (1.5850 * 30000) Margin requirement assuming 1:100 would be $465,50 ...

What exactly is a lot size?

Come on, this isnt really rocket sience. Just take your last 100 trades and do a comparison. Its also evident that if you are a profitable trader, you would have made less than with a 'normal broker', if you are unprofitable, you would have lost ...

0 spread, 0 commision - getting tired of all this..

Its my understanding that brokers regulated in the UK under the FSA (Hotspot Europe or alpari UK for example) are part of a compensation scheme. I dont know the details, i guess you can learn more on the FSA page. There are also a few others with a ...

MT4 Broker & Protected Deposits

So in short, you are complaining about the complainers?

MT4 Brokers' Virtual Dealer Plug-In

Actually, at EFX its 1.5 Pips for Eur/Usd and 1.99 Pips for Gbp/Usd per roundturn.

Market Makers & ECN’s, Is the grass greener?

Interesting But i think the 2 mini lots named "EFX" is a client order.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction