Gold price spike from 1310 to 34 in one minute?

Quoting clemmo17

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There's a good reason not to publicly embarrass them (and risk reprisals) especially if this was not intentional and is, as ProjectM says, a common problem. It is only on the order of thousands, not hundreds of thousands. The money situation has been rectified and the only damage is that my history had to be reset so I cannot use the same account for signals. The only help I need now is advice about how to avoid this happening again. Obviously some trust has been lost and I won't keep large sums with this broker, but so far I can only assume they...

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Quoting clemmo17

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There's a good reason not to publicly embarrass them (and risk reprisals) especially if this was not intentional and is, as ProjectM says, a common problem. It is only on the order of thousands, not hundreds of thousands. The money situation has been rectified and the only damage is that my history had to be reset so I cannot use the same account for signals. The only help I need now is advice about how to avoid this happening again. Obviously some trust has been lost and I won't keep large sums with this broker, but so far I can only assume they...

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Quoting Bicarus

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let me share some ingsights. bad ticks are nothing new. black swans occur due to a position in times of low volume, exaggerated by stops taken out. bad ticks occur in times of low volatility. if you have been looking at the vix. volume and volatility across all asset classes has been declining since the beginning of the year. only uptick was in may(thank you trump) hence it is not uncommon for LPs to switch off their price engines during such periods of declining volatility and turning it back on when they see a improvement. imagine cold starting...

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Quoting Bicarus

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let me share some ingsights. bad ticks are nothing new. black swans occur due to a position in times of low volume, exaggerated by stops taken out. bad ticks occur in times of low volatility. if you have been looking at the vix. volume and volatility across all asset classes has been declining since the beginning of the year. only uptick was in may(thank you trump) hence it is not uncommon for LPs to switch off their price engines during such periods of declining volatility and turning it back on when they see a improvement. imagine cold starting...

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Quoting Soros

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{quote} Price manipulation does occur, brokers do keep books. I didnt say bad ticks dont exist

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Quoting clemmo17

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There's a good reason not to publicly embarrass them (and risk reprisals) especially if this was not intentional and is, as ProjectM says, a common problem. It is only on the order of thousands, not hundreds of thousands. The money situation has been rectified and the only damage is that my history had to be reset so I cannot use the same account for signals. The only help I need now is advice about how to avoid this happening again. Obviously some trust has been lost and I won't keep large sums with this broker, but so far I can only assume they...

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Quoting pundit78

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{quote} Its nice hear that you got your money back but such bad ticks are definitely not good for anyone's account. As you mentioned this broker has good rating on FPA then it should not have such manipulation. Kindly recheck if there are enough reviews to judge this broker. I have account with fxchoice a I did not experience such bad tick ever in my MT4. You need to remain cautious about it. {image}

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Quoting Harry6

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{quote} and today????????????? till 1410

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