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If you could see your P/L at all never mind in which currency it would be helpful.

Quiet day on the markets was it Mr Angry?

Come off it kiwi trader, almost everyone who has tried IdealPro in TWS agrees it's just not very good. Even the most experienced, "elite" forex trader in the world would have a nightmare trying to trade on a platform that doesn't show running profit and loss, doesn't show the price you were...

If you've not traded forex before I definitely wouldn't start with IB.

I would go further and call dbFX staff deliberately dishonest. I opened a live dbFX account and noticed that the platform was connecting directly to FXCM servers. How can dbFX staff not be aware of this? dbFX is just a front for FXCM, simple as that, but they don't want potential customers to...

The mini seems to have 10 times less liquidity than the full CME Euro FX. Is anyone trading the e-mini or is it pretty much a dead cat?

That's because it's a front for FXCM so they have FXCM's spreads. When will people learn?

Nice of you to advertise them on only your second post. IFX is responsible for Finspreads, widely regarded as the worst spread betting company in the world. I tried it for a day to witness the "unavailable prices" and connection problems that occur around economic releases. And what do you mean...

Herry no offence but what's your obsession with Oanda? You've mentioned them several times in this thread and over on the other board. Oanda is the last forex broker on earth I would recommend. "Low spreads" is a joke because they have up to 25 pip spreads during news releases. IdealPro may not...

...because I want it now! What are some opinions of this one, built by http://www.ankermann-pc.co.uk/ as recommended in this thread. Also the motherboard (or something near to it) was recommended in this thread and I've gone for a quiet video card and super silent power (again following...

I definitely want to build it myself. I've heard it's just a case of slotting bits in so I'm quite looking forward to it.

I read that, very useful. But after all that you ended up buying a friend's $350 Dell? Made me laugh.

On principle I'm not buying Dell because they annoy me with advertising that pops up on computer screens and falls out of newspapers. Also they seem to have "outsourced" their sales and customer service departments so getting any sense out of them is difficult. Any company that spends so much on...

I think his point was that it's an old and cheap Asus. Also I'm finding it very informative to research for this PC and it might even be good fun to spend a weekend building it once I have all the parts.

Could you recommend a system for the ultimate in quietness and reliability?

ElectricSavant, no offence but I don't see why practically every hardware discussion has got to be hijacked by people shouting "you don't need that for trading". The point has been made, let it lie. As for my "adviser" he's just a tech-savvie friend coming up with some ideas but I'd be happy...

Thanks for the replies. Buying any computers or parts from the US is a non-starter due to shipping and customs issues. As for the hard drive, I do need programs to write from and read to text files on the hard drive but I assume that isn't going to be an issue so I'm thinking of just buying a...

I'm building my own system with the help of a friend who is a gamer but I'm a bit concerned that the parts he recommends are biased towards gaming rather than trading. I'll be running two monitors, although I may include more monitors later. The programs I'll be running are MBTrading Navigator...

I can't think why it would be "against the forum rules". It's very easy to find out the ip address of who you're connecting to. There's an MS-DOS tool that does it or you can download a GUI tool that does it. In fact many internet security programs also tell you exactly who you're connecting to...

You can measure general internet latency between the trader and the broker by having the trader ping the broker.