Recent content by robindrew

Yeah I started off using IG Index and CMC markets about 9 years ago. Back then City Index and many other brokers had significantly worse spreads. These days there is so much competition that I think most of them have comparable spreads. I'll take a look at Interactive Brokers, see if they have...

Well what I've heard is slightly different - many forex traders now favour spread betting platforms over traditional brokers because the spreads are comparable, trading more straight forward and any profits are tax free! The key question any trader interested in comparing the two needs to...

Hi fellow traders, Although I dipped my toes in the pond of spreadbetting over a decade ago now with fairly neutral results overall, I recently returned to leverage my programming skills by integrating with APIs and attempting to formulate an automated trading strategy. I am based in the UK...

Hi, I recently signed up to them and am integrating with their api at the moment using Java. They got me to re-signup because I needed a dev account which is apparently different to the standard one. I did find that they were very slow to respond (days) to my original complaints about access to...