What is with these type of "recommendation questions"? You've got 50k to play with and require MT4? Think bigger and leave Market Maker/Bucketshops alone. Sign up with a REAL broker or bank. Look into Interactive Brokers and if you decided to go ...

Advice on Broker

If Oanda can continue to offers low spreads, low cost of entry, fix the connection problems, in addition to continue offering FXTrader on the side of their new MT platform ... I'm sure many traders would flock to Oanda in a heartbeat. I'm tempted to ...

Oanda goes Metatrader

If you trading with DealbookWeb, that will happen occasionally. It use to happen to me a few years back, often. I'd close out an order/pending order and DealbookWeb wouldn't cancel or close it. I too usually had to call the dealing desk and get them ...

Is GFT a good trading platform?

With an experienced dealing desk, it would not be hard for a broker to 'figure out' a traders strategy. 99% of retail traders uses the same tired trading method that has been done for decades, so to a broker there is little surprise as to what ...

Broker Arbitrage

TOS, do you mean Think or Swim? If its Think or Swim you're referring to, GFT is not a white label of TOS. Gain Capital (Forex.com) is a white label of TOS. I believe TOS and GFT shares the same web-base platform only.

GFT Forex Discussion

Not possible. Both Oanda Fxtrader and Metaquotes4 are two different proprietory trading apps.

is Oanda really a good choice for trading?

Metaquotes has developed an iPhone/iPad apps for MT4 but it seems only a few select brokers carry the app. I know of a trader who uses GoMarkets MT4 iPhone app but they are the only broker I personally know of that carries the MT4 apps.

Forex on iPhone

GFT I always favored GFT iPhone app. Though I don't own an iPhone (I'm a Blackberry man at the moment but thinking about moving over the Android) but I was able to give it a proper test drive using a friends iPhone. Its a pretty nice app that has ...

Forex on iPhone

Sorry, I can't recommend anyone because you put 'MT4' and 'honest broker' in the same sentence. Theres no such thing as an 'honest MT4 broker'. Its like Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, and Hue Jackman ... they don't exist.

Please help to choose a good broker

Dealbook360 is unable to log transactions on to a website. MT4 runs an FTP server with enables traders to post their MT4 trades to an website. Dealbook doesn't have such setup. In fact, I believe MT4 is the only trading platform that does so.

Online Transaction Logger for Dealbook?

Bloomberg charing certainty not 'useless' though a retail trader would need a justifiable reason to invest $18,000/yearly for basic charting software when there are other affordable alternatives in the market. Sure many Hedge Funds and Banks will ...

Bloomberg Launchpad

I trade with GFT and they widen their spread also. GFT major pairs spread tends to widen up to 3 pips. Oanda spreads widen up to 10-20 pips. That a huge difference between the two brokers. I know GFT EURUSD spread is always 2 pips and during news ...

is Oanda really a good choice for trading?

Like everyone else has stated, it looks like Oanda widen the spread on NZDUSD during news times. This isn't uncommon as EVERY broker widen their spreads during major news releases, overnight, and low liquidity moments. This isn't an Oanda only ...

is Oanda really a good choice for trading?

You're requirements are pretty much on par with very Metatrader based broker. So it should be hard to find one. The most popular choice would probably be: Alpari, IBfx, Forex.com, FXCM, etc etc etc ...

Please help to choose a good broker

Really? The path to profitability lies with you and Money Trader in some "private" chat? Yeah .... How much will this "private session" cost him. lol

LOST 7K$ in one week, help!

As Marv stated, theres nothing special about Bloomberg charts or terminal. Its just another charting package with all the typical charting tools. The only thing that separates this charting package from others is, the Bloomberg name and the $1,500 ...

Bloomberg Launchpad

Brokers have been better and improved their performance, only because the CFTC is running the show now. CFTC don't f*** around when it comes to brokers misdoings. Now that the CFTC is the 'official' regulatory body, brokers have since cleaned up ...

Have brokers improved their performance?

Its a demo server, don't fret over the availability of a demo server. Their not real. Every brokers demo servers go down. Most demos servers are only one (maybe two) overly crowded servers with literally thousands of accounts. Some active but most ...

PFGBest - DEMO Server Down for You Too?

MA Crossover strategy would kill your account equity in a tight ranging market. MA Crossovers tend to work best for trending markets but I still find it not an idea way of trading. Whats interesting the see is traders using a MA Crossover strategy ...

Why exactly do EMA crossover systems not work?

I read the WSJ daily. Purely for overall market, business, and world information. I can't use anything that I read in WSJ because by the time its come out on print, if considered old news. When I read the newspaper, I'm not nessasarily looking for ...

Usefulness of reading newspapers for trading FX