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I can't say that I have any information to the contrary but I would have thought that the % of traders at places like oanda trading at more than 1m a clip is very small indeed.

Good to know you can make such a bold assumption

so the traders who are consistently making money trading spot fx are just lucky?

I'm afraid I'll have to disagree and can provide tick data for you. There are plenty of reasons to trade either futures via exchange and spot through a bucketshop. Of course it depends on your trading style and strategy but why ppl can't comprehend the benefits of trading with both is beyond me

I am unsure why if your strategy is profitable you would want to sclae down. On IB around announcemnts the spread is uusally quite tight and sufficient volume up to at least 20m within a 5pip spread on eurusd but you'd be fooolish to think you can consume all of that. The liquidity providers...

I think you'll find spreds on 6B around most uk or us announcement got to at least 8-10 pips wide also. Solution? Don't trade if you can' handle the increas in spread

your stratgey is not scalable. Stick to hitting the bucket shops in small sizes so you won't get noticed. Increase your size and they'll put you on manual, trade on futures and you'll have to deal with huge spreads.

there are plenty of work arounds that can be employed, some more succesful that others on ideal pro .. but of cousre in the end because the liquidity providers through ib do not have to honour thier quotes it's all a bit hit and miss. FX Futures, no point even thinking about them when there's a...

I personally don't use ib anymore for spot fx but have to admit that 12 months ago, idealpro was working exactly how I'd expected it to. To this date, even after nfp I've not seen the spreads on the majors widen to more than 5-7 pips excpect maybe for the first inital 3-5 secs after the...

I must mention one thing .... since I've started using idealpro, the quality of fills I've been getting has been on the decline to the point where I'm not longer getting fills at all. Admittedly I trade when the markets are extremely volatile but would def like some clarification as to what has...

The content of your posts seem to have degraded to the level of our resident god of forex. Read their website, get a demo, make your own conclusions.

I'm not sure about in the US but in europe www.eurohedge.com

genius!

wouldn't it be faster to read what's on their website?

ditto

the self-proclaimed god of forex doesn't know? Incidentally, 'effect' is a noun, I think the word you're looking for is 'affect'

this list will change along with the markets. While nfp is viewed as the most important figure, in the 80's it was trade balance. About 12-18 months ago when inflation and rates weren't the key drivers tb and tics were the big mkt movers.

was released on yahoo website 15-20 secs early

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I've had an account with IG Index and for the first 12 months it was great. Their fixed spreads and guaranteed stops even round news was a real money printer. However, as with all spreadbetting companies they take the other side of the trade so it's in their best interests for you to make a...