What? How did he lose because of it? I doubt I'll get a reply......

Broker auto closing trades every end of the week

It's called 'rollover', lots of marketmakers do it every night, it's nothing new and it's not a scam! Why does it make any difference to you anyway, do you think your losses aren't real while they're unrealized?

Broker auto closing trades every end of the week

And the point you're making is.....?

Alpari Stuck

The difference is that people who qualify for HP have been credit scored, and the loan companies have an obligation to make the consumer aware of all the pitfalls of finance including the costs. Not so in forex. The whole business is long overdue a ...

Alpari Stuck

I know what you're saying but I wouldn't call those people 'traders', I'd call them reckless gamblers. Unfortunately they are the people who give forex trading a bad reputation. It looks like Alpari UK are keeping up with their Russian counterpart, ...

Alpari Stuck

Why? Leverage only affects margin requirements, not risk.

Alpari Stuck

You might find this article interesting: url Here's an excerpt: "....Taking Advantage of the Hunt The "stop hunting with the big specs" is an exceedingly simple setup, requiring nothing more than a price chart and one indicator. Here is the setup ...

How to profit off Stop-Hunting?

I haven't checked them all but it seems to be. This is on Alpari UK, 15 minute chart, from 2am to 2.45am, and 4.15am to 7am. I phoned their IT support and the guy had the same thing on his demo, live was fine though. Edit: Just checked the RU demo ...

Alpari Stuck

Yes, quite a few bars missing around 2am, and 4.15 to 7am but only on demo, the live platform seems fine. If you only use it for charting like I do then open a live account and use the live server, it's more reliable than the demo.

Alpari Stuck

Yes, knowing where price is going would definitely be an advantage! If you try to exploit latency you'll get kicked off or put on manual/delayed exection, no free lunch unfortunately, marketmakers ain't that stupid.

Platforms for arbitrage

That's interesting, why is that? Is it an unwritten agreement between them or just not practically possible? I thought banks use other banks for liquidity and to offset risk. The interbank is a different world and a mystery to me but it's ...

Interbank Spot: "Bank Reversals" Make it a Fools Game???

I'm not sure you can compare bucketshop punters to professional traders can you? Your average punter probably wouldn't even notice some of the blatant tricks their bucketshop gets up to, let alone complain about it, just read the forums to confirm ...

Interbank Spot: "Bank Reversals" Make it a Fools Game???

I hate to admit this because I think Oanda are the bucketshop from hell, but their FX Manager is really simple for client and manager. Some MT4 MM's now have multiple terminal software, other MM's have PAMM (Percent Allocation Management Module) and ...

Best broker for trading multiple accounts?

I think so, FIFO (First In First Out) if I remember correctly. I guess the only way would be to close the 5k and re-open 2.5k and pay the .9 spread (23c or something) Edit: Just make sure you have a Market Order ticket filled out and ready to Sell ...

closing half of a position on oanda

Good point, I wonder if the system would actually allow itself to re-open the trade if there wasn't enough margin! Hehe, this has got to be a good one to give their 'helpdesk' staff a headache when the market's quiet and I'm bored.....I'll post the ...

Any Successful trader here using Oanda?

Not so big in the scheme of things, I've got a low dollar pain threshold when it comes to stops To be honest I prefer a bucketshop over a (pretend?) ECN or even a genuine ECN. My orders gets filled at the price I clicked most of the time, and if ...

Any Successful trader here using Oanda?

I won't reply to your other points as I think I've said all there is to say on those subjects, in this thread and in another thread I started.... But I'm confused about what happens when trades are rolled back on 'misspikes'. Do they cancel off the ...

Any Successful trader here using Oanda?

Got the same email, looks like they sorted it out.... 5 Aug 2008 22:37:37 On August 1, 2008, trades made from your account - #xxxxx - had issues with rollover. Trades that should have received swap payment were not awarded swap, and trades that ...

IBFX swap problems

Why settle for 400, why not go 500! I have no idea what they're like but how about Alpari? Alpari UK sucked when I traded with them for a few weeks, I don't know if the Russian branch is any better.

Wanted: Good MT4 Broker Offering 400:1 Leverage

lol, that conjures up a picture of some Oanda dealer sitting in front of his screen waiting for your orders, then with an evil grin he runs your stops truthy, I think you'll find everything is pretty much automated nowadays with virtual ...

Any Successful trader here using Oanda?