You wont even be able to do that with oanda. They shade the price marginally in order to avoid these situations. And if price moves when you click buy or sell you get slipped a fraction of a pip. Therefore, there is no arbitrage (or manipulation) ...

Anyone been banned from Oanda for Scalping

You would encourage scalping only if you are a broker that is hedging his whole book. Oanda reckons that they hedge all trades. I'm not saying that they encourage scalping but they seem to turn a bit of a blind eye. But if you were a market maker ...

Anyone been banned from Oanda for Scalping

I have found that year after year that December to be the hardest month to trade due to extreme volatility. But it seems to me that this year some of the patterns that we see in December have started early in november. By the way, November has been ...

BAD November?

It's called NonFarm employment change in the FF calendar.

Non Farm Payroll News

Would that not work with the autoclicker? I thought one click execution would work best?

True story of FXCM 'at best' option

Actually it's a 25 basis points cut but I'm sure I saw 50 points announced at FF right after the news. They showed 4.25% rate instead of 4.50%. umm... must have been a typo error.

Fed Rate Cut Announcement

I made a small fortune trading the news for years up until the end of the year 2006. What killed news trading was the coming onto the scene of all these unscrupulous autoclick providers. We all know the 3 major ones. To this day, I dont understand ...

News Trading in the UK : how & who to trade with

You are right that it is difficult to prove but we know that it's all rigged, my friend. It it looks rigged, then it is.

Anyone Trading With BGCFX (MT4 Currenex)?

They have big spreads at any volatility and huge spreads at news time.

MT4 Brokers

It should be interpreted as: FXCM's 'AT BEST' for news = Traders 'AT WORSE' for news.

FXCM's "AT BEST" For News

All this information is not new. Like Burgerking says above, I never recommend any broker either but North Finance is not any worse than some of the NFA registered brokers. At least you can withdraw money from North Finance. Just try to withdraw ...

S.E.C. of Cyprus Warning for North Finance Ltd (taken from article)

If they did not receive the funds, how can they return it? What kind of check can they do with their bank ? I think that since you sent the funds, you have to get your bank to trace it and find out where did it end up? If it did end up in NF account ...

Northfinance -Funding Problem

The answer is simple : Greed. One cant help but feel sometimes that a forex broker's mission is to increase the percentage of losers from 95% to as close to 100% as possible. Now, I know that sounds like an extreme. But there is also a case of ...

If 95% of traders fail.....

Yes. You can make a living off trading forex. Very few can make it but those who do it understand how the market works. And like Merlin keep saying over and over 'It's a dirty game'. I agree with him. But it can be profitable. Whoever coined this ...

If 95% of traders fail.....

Her's the answer: 1.Not necessarily. Even experienced and well trained traders lose money. Remember those top traders at well known banks who lost billions. 2.Both are potential problems. Trader not being focused. Broker trading against you is a big ...

If 95% of traders fail.....

Let's use an analogy here: If 100 people tried to swim 10 miles in a sea infested with sharks to get safely on land, I put it to you that 95 per cent will fail the journey (eaten by sharks) and that only 5 per cent will make it to the destination. ...

If 95% of traders fail.....

If this is the reason for you going long dollar swiss, I suggest you have some serious thinking to do.

What is wrong with this CHF?

The clean up of the forex brokers has just started. Looks like the NFA which for a long time was no more than a toothless tiger is now starting to grow some teeth. This can only be all good in the end for us forex traders. I say get rid of all ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Sounds like you've been 'cheated' by them??? Could they be the ones that cancelled your winning trades?

UGM - United Global Markets GOING DOWN