Well, the main thing is that they're aimed at the smaller outfit and are a true ECN rather than the somewhat half arsed ECN that many of the others are. Eventhough the current crop of ECNs can pass on our small trades, the market isnt obliged to ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I'ts called insider trading (plus commercial espionage). Ask George Soros. He knows all about insider trading.

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

I'm UK based too and there was no problem opening my account. Its a pain that you have to wire money rather than use a credit card but my wire arrived the same day so its quite quick. My account is in USD but you can open one in GBP they tell me.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Thanks for that. FXCM ? No thank you. But I am going to open a futures account with FastBrokers probably. I think having that extra info is useful anyway. I'm hoping that LMAX will eventually become the spot equivalent of the futures market. They ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Rubbish

OANDA Discussion

Do you also have colourful pom-poms and great tits ?

OANDA Discussion

That's what I'm gradually coming round to and one of the reasons I've put up a thread asking for opinions about FastBrokers who offer both spot and futures. (So do MB of course)

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I certainly agree that if you've experienced a good service and are happy with what you're getting, then there's no reason to change. I just dont like the idea of trading with a company that are obviously taking the other end of my trade. I hope ...

OANDA Discussion

Of course it isnt. It's like betting on soccer with a bookmaker who can also decide on the scores. Its a conflict of interest.

OANDA Discussion

Complete gibberish as its a conflict of interest. If they have control over your spreads, your trades, your platform they can manipulate every aspect of your trading. Thats a conflict of interest. If you can't understand that you really shouldn't be ...

OANDA Discussion

I've been told they trade against you and that their platform is unstable and often throws a connection. They're also useless, I've been told, if you want to trade news.

OANDA Discussion

No. Because I also trade weekend gaps and MB, (a) dont start trading till later than normal on Sundays and (b) they often dont allow trading for over an hour from their opening because of poor liquidity (sic). That, combined with their excuses that ...

Any comments re: FastBrokers?

I think whats slightly concerning in this is that MBT blamed my NinjaTrader software for the problems rather than facing up to the fact that they decided to block my trades. The support guy that eventually called me was extremely aggressive and ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I think its GMT -5 i.e New York time

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I don't think its bullshit at all and this whole order flow concept is extremely interesting, however I'd certainly encourage all those interested in it to keep the current COT environment in perspective. COT provides very informative data as to the ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Well, here is the log info from NT7 log: 04/02/2011 13:30:09|0|32|MB Trading, Unable to process last request: affected Order: Buy 100000 Limit @ 1.614 As you can see it just says 'unable to process' which could mean a whole load of things.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

For a laugh I joined the free trial at Zulu and chose their two top performing signal providers (not top in pips but overall performance). Within 3 weeks my account was down over 1000 pips If these signal providers had any faith in their signals ...

Looking for Zulutrade Competitors

Thanks for the explanation and while thats probably true for those trades I tried at or around NFP is that true of those 20 minutes later ? Is there still that amount of volatility about ? Is there a way around if one wants to trade at those times ? ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

MBT told me they never received the trades and that it was an NT7 issue but you can clearly see in the NT7 logs that the orders were sent OK but rejected (without reason) by MBT. They also said it must have been to do with liquidity or volatility or ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction