Fat spreads = pure profit.

Someone needs to build a pure, transparent ECN, no liquidity provider retail broker

I think MB Trading has made it clear they are for short time traders. I *actually* like this about them. It means that I can use the for my short term trades and not worry that they'll lose focus and try to be everything to everyone. Unfortunately! ...

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Fair enough. Why are your commissions so high? Dukas has $18/mio, and IB has $20/mio. Also, you're the only broker I can find that won't open up accounts in BC/Canada. What's up with that?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Interactive Broker's seems to do customer to customer matching. $20 per mio as well. Not bad..

Aren't ECN Brokers just fronts for bucketshops?

It didn't work, eh? I think they just didn't give it enough time. People have developed pretty sophisticated systems and I bet something like that will just work more and more as time goes on.

Someone needs to build a pure, transparent ECN, no liquidity provider retail broker

atcbrokers doesn't do customer to customer either. just called them. they're just a front for fxcm, though, as well.

Aren't ECN Brokers just fronts for bucketshops?

with regards to fxdd: English Support: we are not an ECN broker Me: what about mtextreme? English Support: MTXtreme is an ECN type product English Support: but it is not a true ECN Me: ahh, no customer to customer matching of orders? English ...

Aren't ECN Brokers just fronts for bucketshops?

I called pfgbest, they do not do customer to customer matching of orders.

Aren't ECN Brokers just fronts for bucketshops?

One of the arguments you guys make for having low capital on hand is because you don't have the same risk profile as a bucketshop. But is this really true? What if your liquidity provider goes under? You must have a pretty big account with them and ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Can you post trades to liquidity provided by MB Trading users? eg: inside the spread? Or are trades just sent out to your liquidity providers only?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Yes, exactly. These are nanny state regulations. Why not have laws that regulate when you brush your teeth or how many vegetables you eat per day? Where are the laws that require you to do X number of pushups or run X # of miles? How about a law ...

Leverage reducing begins

Any tips on opening up an account with MB Trader out of BC / Canada?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

100 lots could easily move the market a few pips.

Trading with $1000 per pip?

What they don't tell you is that he blew 20K getting the 19K and so his profit was only 5K.

$961 - $19,714 one month

Hmm .. well, Oanda will take trades on the weekend. I'm looking for an exchange that will actually let us trade user to user on the weekend. Hard to believe there isn't such a thing.

Broker for trading on the weekend?

1mil can move the market a few pips. I've done it. If you can stomach losing a few 100s, you should try it sometime.

trading with 10 millions VS 1 million ??