You will experience even more slippage with the 3 brokers you mention above if you straddle with them at news time.

Which Broker for News Straddle trading?

They may not be trying to completely get rid of spot forex, but they are trying to severely restrict it and make it less appealing to small traders. This is all to protect the futures industry which has been showing diminishing volumes and liquidity ...

Top 50 brokers - where OTC is likely headed

FXSol is a requote machine as soon as prices start moving a bit fast. They just refuse to fill you when there is volatility. And you get put on manual and requotes as soon as you make some money. But look back at your post in January when you said ...

FX Solutions

Are you using their ECN or market maker platform?

Best ECN

Keep in mind many of those who are shouting at you are broker reps, their IB's and others who earn a quid for taking broker side. There are many of them on FF masquarading as traders. You can easily spot them as once a thread like this gets going ...

steps to follow when a broker scams you?

Many brokers have denied the use of virtual dealer plugin in the past, namely Gain Capital/Forex.com and Ikon GM I don't know whether Tadawul use the virtual dealer plugin or anything similar in the settings of metatrader manager software used by ...

Tadawul FX (TDFX) Discussion

Saw this on another website: "Pressed By Global Regulators, Forex Broker FXCM Restructures By Christopher Zinsli Of DOW JONES VENTUREWIRE Regulators in three countries are questioning FXCM Inc. about aspects of its foreign-exchange brokerage ...

FXCM Discussion

Burgerking Yes, you first brought this issue to our attention at FF in February 2008 under your thread Virtual Dealer Plugin. It's taken the NFA two and a half years to catch up with the cheating brokers. Don't worry too much about the broker ...

IKON GM fined for using Virtual Dealer Plugin

Has FXCM published such a report yet? I am interested to look at it

IBfx's Profitability Report

Hi, Melode. Both Axitrader and Go Markets claim to be STP and to be routing to banks. Axitrader are ok as long as you dont trade during news as they will fill end of spike just like Go Markets actually. But execution at Axitrader is fast and you can ...

MT4 Brokers' Virtual Dealer Plug-In

I can't be bothered reading thru all ECN brokers terms and conditions but interestingly this was posted by FF member Kirman like a day ago in the Dukascopy thread and I copied and pasted it here: Quote 15. conflicts of interests The user understands ...

MT4 Brokers' Virtual Dealer Plug-In

I have used the fxopen market maker platform but didn't like it because as per their rules you have to hold trades for 2 minutes before you can close. But I have not used the FXopen ECN platform which I hear is routing to dukascopy so you would have ...

MT4 Brokers' Virtual Dealer Plug-In

I am well aware what a bucketshop is and I've been taking money from them for the past 5 years image . But I've got to say that the confusion is mostly on your side because you are assuming that an STP always routes to an ECN network. Sure, some ...

MT4 Brokers' Virtual Dealer Plug-In

It can be installed with any broker that offers a Metatrader platform. Keep in mind an STP is also a bucketshop because it buckets (passes through) to a dealing desk. And those brokers that have a different platform can create their own plugin.

MT4 Brokers' Virtual Dealer Plug-In

I totally agree with this. You may decide not to open an account with them and then you get all this spam. I set up a web email address a long time ago just for this purpose when I dont feel like I want to give my home email address.

Broker wants email address to provide support

Just received email from FXDD that they are moving to 5 decimals on August 15 but it seems they are sticking with instant order instead of moving to market order.

4 decimal price broker

By your own account which I have highlighted in bold above: The first time you contacted your hedging partner you were told that the 170 pips spreads was genuine and you agreed. 170 pips spreads at first looked ok to you, blimey! It appears you told ...

GoMarkets Discussion

First, great to see that you got your 10k plus back! But let's get this whole thing right. Your account was emptied of some over 10k after a suspicious 150 pips spike on the Go Markets platform. You state that you contacted Go Markets, exchanged ...

GoMarkets Discussion

The virtual dealer plugin is taking many forms and almost certainly is used on many platforms not just MT4. How much more proof do we need?

FXCM active trader web price lag & slippage