Yeah i know what you meant. Was stating this tongue in cheek sort of based on my experiences...I just like to knock fxcm...

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Try FXCM and you will believe in the bad broker idea

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Was this with default settings?

Firebird EA, please test this one, it is one of the greats

Hi Hendrick, I'll give you $5... No seriously, I think your work is worth more than that. If you'd like to charge for it you should.

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Human reaction time is about 220 milliseconds. 1/10th or thereabouts is negligible. There are more important factors to consider like what your news source is and how fast your interpret it. I consistently beat the big guys on news with very simple ...

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I will have to disagree with your disagreement your original post talks about leased lines verses cable/dsl. Bandwidth does not have anything to do with latency. You can have a T3 with higher latency than a 56 connection. Secondly icmp is not a ...

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I agree with pretty much everything you say except the ecn part. First off spreads with ecns during news are tightest and secondly if it is a proper ecn what you see is what you get for quotes - unless your hand eye coordination is slow.... Secondly ...

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MT notifies you if you lose connection to your broker. It is not connection. Bandwidth requirements are small for MT4 and latency would never have such an impact. 99% is broker fault.

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You are wrong about that. MBT is true ECN. Orders go directly to banks. CoesFX if you notice compare spreads on demo vs live....make your own determination.

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Good for you Kevin. Very wise decision. There is no reason why you should not limit your trading only to news. Trading news means reducing your risk. I have some systems with PF of above 5 and I still do not see real justification for using them as ...

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Hmmm...now that I look at the settings on your backtest I think you are ok. I thought you were using my MM Module which includes Decrease Factor (it reduces trade sizes when it encounters a stretch of bad trades).... I think you may want to add this ...

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Hi Hendrick, just one suggestion I have is when you backtest I would turn off MM because (at least turn off the Decrease Factor). This skews result often due to different trade sizes. When I backtest I always do fixed lots. Then I compare with MM ...

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THink about this I am the broker. One trader sends a stop order to sell USD and another to buy. I can effectively manipulate and delay orders in such a way as to get more than the spread between the orders so that I have 0 risk. These are all ...

1 pips spread to all major pair??

Many different ways but some of which are shady - like tampering with the quotes so your SLs get hit. Shutting down during volatile times...delaying your trades through dealing desk so they can trade against you...list goes on and on.

1 pips spread to all major pair??

THey have no control over the market. When there is nobody to meet your order on the other side obviously there is no execution. It also depends on the size of your trades. If you trade single lot trades your execution will not happen fast most ...

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there is a difference between ECN and retail. when the markets moves that fast a retail broker can get wacked because they guarantee the quote (at least some of them) and by the time they execute the order the market may have moved 10-20 pips in ...

1 pips spread to all major pair??

Spread is almost meaningless if not taking into account other factors - dealing desk presence/absence, liquidity (look at the ticks per minute), execution speed etc..

1 pips spread to all major pair??

It is ECN...the orders execute instantaneously. 0 slippage

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it is most often 1pip spread from what i've seen during news..

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I am not talking trading within the spread - I am saying my broker does give me choice (0) spreads very very often and I do trade them. Interbank market works on choice very often actually. Now obviously ECNs most often charge a fixed transaction ...

1 pips spread to all major pair??