It appears that you are the one that doesn't know anything about trading. It is you who manages your risk, not your broker. I've never had an MB trade desk person be nasty and agitated(tired, yes, but always thorough and make sure they have it ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Well, there are other things that can affect your connection besides MB Trading(it also could be them). Have you eliminated those problems? Have you spoken to MB Tech Support to try and figure out what the problem is or are you just going to whine ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Probably because before they did, everybody and their brother was screaming at them to get it or lose the business. Apparently Oanda recently made the same move, don't know how it is going for them, but I do know their spreads are crap! MT4 is not a ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

No, I've been trading live all night. No connection issues. Desktop Pro, not MT4.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Another hour and another .4% gain. Almost 0 drawdown because of perfect execution. I'll stop overposting about this, I just wanted to make sure the positives of MBT's platform are being discussed as well as the negative.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

MBT Execution is F-ing ridiculous — Ok, so market open and news is a bad time to trade with MBT perhaps, but just about any other time is a great time to trade. Just had an awesome session with ridiculous executions trading euro at .5-.8 ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Shorts still looking good, although we may be seeing a dead cat bounce on H1.

GBP/CHF trading room

Yes, as usual. This is how MB Trading works, they bring the servers up after they have verified connection/liquidity. If I wanted to trade market open, I would consider an account with Oanda, they seem to be open before most other brokers, although ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I suppose you're just as much an expert on woodwork as anybody... :-) I'm not judging anybody, just making an observation and stating a realization that I needed to come to before I became a successful trader. You have to be aware of all aspects of ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

You really don't know what you are talking about, do you? Good luck finding a nice steak. All the rest of us sorry sad-sack MBT clients will have to continue eating shit and getting paid I suppose. You can call it what you want, but it tastes great ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Here's a couple tidbits I could impart as one who has made the journey himself(about 4 years) and considers himself to be a "successful forex trader." I am a 100% manual, short term, discretionary trader with basically naked charts. 1. Do not demo ...

College Grad Looking to Make as a Trader

If you aren't prepared to rationally handle a technical problem with a broker when you "have a trade or 2 open" then you probably shouldn't be trading. It's a part of the game.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Happy Happy joy joy — I want to say publicly that I am extremely happy with MB Trading as my broker. Desktop Pro is a solid app(with a semi-steep learning curve) that is on it's way to becoming the best trading app I've seen. (It's not there ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Here's the real deal. They were charging Forex customers for this as well(as stated in their downloaded documents. There was discussion about it on MBT Idea Exchange and Ross was not aware that people were being charged for extra logins. He has ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I can comment on this as a user. The minimum tradeable lot size is 1K. You can open an order for 1430 no problem. You could not, however close half at TP1 and then the rest later, because the minimum trade size is 1K. If you are left with a position ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Does it matter?? — Well, These are typical spreads.. GU regularly goes to .10 spread and even negative. Euro was -.50 spread a lot tonight. What I know is that when I trade with MB Trading, using the Pegged and Limit order types, I get super ...

Is MBT really an ECN ?

I'm going to agree with this. Psychology of trading is only a concern if you don't know how to trade well. If you have a mentor or are being trained to trade(I've heard it takes about 90 days in the big firms), I imagine there is a lot less ...

The Winning Trading Psychology - sure way for consistent profits

Here's a little info for anyone else interested in this. MB Trading charges $25 per month for each secondary username you request.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Really, thanks for that tip signorx! I wonder how NinjaTrader gets around this?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Hmm, well you got people on the other end, so... To be honest, I've had one or two experiences with Technical Support(not customer service) when it was obvious that the guy had been working way too long(and very early in the morning). He was curt, ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction