Their chart is not a problem. It is their most important instrument of defence against scalpers, designed to confuse them at certain times. The first step to being a successful scalper with Oanda is not to use their charts at all. Their quote panel ...

OANDA Discussion

Well, with every broker you can have either a price guarantee (limit order) or an execution guarantee (market and stop orders) but not both at the same time. This is just the way it is. It remains the trader's decision what he prefers or which one ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

I have tried both demo and live. I have not got much experience with stop orders - I assume you enter with them by right-clicking. Stop orders are basically the same as market orders, one can expect slippage on them. I only use them if i have to get ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

How do you place your orders? Do you use FxTrader? I use BookTrader with limit orders (left click) and I never experience any slippage this way. With market orders it is a different thing.

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

Hi ewokuk, i posted my ProRealTime chart there. No such spike... url

OANDA Discussion

This is not quite true. Please note that there IS tax on capital gains, if you get qualified as a "commercial" trader (gewerbsmaessiger Wertschriftenhaendler) It is easy to be qualified as such, if you trade quite often, you hold your trades for ...

Forex Brokers offering Segregated Accounts

As far as I know Swiss bank accounts are insured only up to a max. of 80k CHF

Forex Brokers offering Segregated Accounts

According to IB this is exactly the reason why all client funds - even those of clients of other branches - are kept with and managed exclusively by the US based LLC, in order to include them in the SIPC/Lloyd protection. While this seems to be a ...

Where is the safe harbour due to world financial and economic crises?

Nice if you found something you like. regards pescador

Good Trading software for linux?

The best execution platform in my opinion is Interactive Brokers TWS (BookTrader) or Currenex. Both work natively on Linux (through java). Oanda and GFT are also good if one's strategy is compatible with an MM. ProRealTime is the best native (java) ...

Good Trading software for linux?

Since when is the IMF an "international organization"? It is just another weapon in the hands of the US to control and subdue 3rd world countries. Therefore the IMF controlling American authorities makes no sense at all. But there are other ...

Nicholas Sarkozy could be the end of Forex