Surely other brokers get the same feed from the interbank.No broker will keep his spread the same when his feed from the interbank suggest otherwise. This is what Oanda is doing there spreads corrispond to the banks and there fluctuations during ...

OANDA users...how do you profit when spreads change

In a word VOLITILITY.

OANDA users...how do you profit when spreads change

No ....it has nothing to do with trying to discourage traders..... it is a reflection of the banks prices at the time of the volitility

OANDA users...how do you profit when spreads change

Additional comments — annie .... even though Oanda is not an ECN they are very close, tight spreads, fast exicution. as to slippage...when a market is in high volitility and the price is moving very fast, it is unreasonable to think you are ...

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Oanda is nomaly 2 pip spread on AUD/USD, but it did widen 15 pi for about 10 minutes just befor the news.

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I have been with Oanda about 1 1/2 years,I just recently looked at MB.....I was not that impressed with there spreads, and I just don't like their trading platform....bottom line I am biased, but it is because Oanda has been trouble free for me,

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Hey ..... you had the right idea just slightly missed it is all....also if there is news comming that has the posibility of increased volitility you really need to be there at the keyboard....... Hang in there you apperantly have a better grip on ...

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Oanda is good for the order fills but they do widen the spreads.

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OK....PDT here , Oregon. I was tryin to figure out the diff in chart time. also you were aware of the news event at that time right?

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derabuf........ what time zone are you in?

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Like I said we all miss an ordre by 1 pip every now and then...... Oh and buy the way....if you had an open position it waould have been stopped out because the sell price was .7522....remember the 2 pip spread, familliarize yourself with how this ...

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you can't place the line at the bottom of the candle tail with any accuracy use the min max and or place the cursor on tje candle and look in the little window on the bottom left. sometimes it is on the top right, depends on the area of the chart ...

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image with the spread being 2 pip and the price being .7523 your order was missed by 1 pip......so close This has happened to all of us at one time or another and will happen again, don't sweat it there are plenty more good entries comming. and ...

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No the low was .7523 Which means it missed your buy 1 pip

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OK...now befor you get completly unhinged what was your limit order set at?

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Actually I think with all the piss poor MMs out there pissin people off I can see regulation comming, it has gotten to big and there are more an more rip offs, look at all the MMs comming out of Florida, I would'nt even request info from any Florida ...

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fxopportunist.......you summed it up perfectly, excelent post with very good advice, thank you.

Can brokers see your trades?

Here is a reply from Oanda regarding my question to them if thay have a dealing desk. Ticket Number: HD309172 Short Description: When you were offline (via LivePerson) Hello, Thank you for your interest in FXTrade. OANDA does not have a dealing ...

Can brokers see your trades?

The turtles showed that even a successful system can fail, why? because of the individual, the system was taught to the selected group, yet only a few were successful, why? Those that that really followed the system were profitable, the others even ...

Isn't it better to just copy someone else's system?

Any broker that has a dealing desk can. http://nondealingdesk.blogspot.com/2006/06/painting-all-dealing-desk-brokers-with.html

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