30 pips slippage is an aberration, my friend.

OANDA Discussion

FXDD are one of the worse bucketshops. Have you noticed when you place an order with FXDD that it takes a few seconds to be executed; it's like someone or their system is reading which way the market is going before accepting your order. You get ...

FXSol slipping price

I would not recommend them for news trading. They slip me 30 pips during GBP Retail sales.

OANDA Discussion

What are you looking at to make that call though? I know you turned out to be right. I dont think that there is any system that can tell you before the news which way to trade. Unless you are looking at price action pointing to some traders with ...

Nov 16's US CPI

Did North Finance widen the spread for the Retail sales announcement and by how much? Could you trade at news time?

GBP retails sales

I posted in the Brokers section of the forum that oanda slipped me 30 pips at GBP retail sales. Oanda is not my main broker and I only had a small lot trying them out and I eventually closed the position even. Just goes to show that there are worse ...

FXSol slipping price

That was a nice + 19 pips for me, Nice trade. Now on to the US cpi news.

GBP retails sales

If the move is strong either way, you will not have time to enter a trade or decypher the numbers. It will be too late. You will only have time to enter if there is incertainty in the market about the news and that will be a risky trade. The release ...

US PPI and Retail Sales at the same time!

I am seeing some slippage with brokers that dont widen the spread - FXSol I notice no slippage with brokers that do widen the spread - IBFX That means that all brokers are doing the same thing at news time but in different ways. The end result for ...

FXSol slipping price

I lost 1 pip on this announcement playing 2.5 standard lots. Not much to worry about given I took some pips previously from the NZD announcement. Report was way worse than expected with the loss of 32k jobs but I don't understand how unemployment ...

NZD and AUD Employment Reports

Looks like you were right on this one. Made a nice + 12 pips Now waiting for the AUD employment report in a few hours.

NZD and AUD Employment Reports

Interest rates announcement are not easy to trade and like a few have already said there need to be a surprise for any big moves. The last big move I saw was when the BOE made a surprise hike a few months ago and GBP rose some 100 pips; it was one ...

AUD: Interest rate decision

IBFX widens their spreads during news but it is not as wide as Oanda's spreads during same news. I have seen widening of 10-12 pips during major news at IBFX. I believe oanda widens 15-25 pips.

how good is interbankfx

Know your broker? Yeah right, they all change the rules every month.

NFP and rumors around

This seems to be the highest spike of all brokers. It just shows that this is what FXCM does best, that is stop hunting.

NFP and rumors around

You are right. Some brokers did not spike as high the fake out while others did. You can tell that those who spiked the highest for the fake move are the stop hunters brokers. Check the charts with a few brokers and you will see. As an example the ...

NFP and rumors around

Fair enough if this is what you choose to do. But news trading can be the biggest source of income in forex. No wonder that banks/brokers create all sort of obstacles for news traders. And some other gurus discourage it as it wouldn't sell their ...

NFP Analysis-There's A Lot Below the Numbers