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Thanks, Lon Eagle. But what type of service do you have with Pulsenet? DSL? 1.54 Mbps, 3 Mbps, ..., ISDN, T1,... Thanks.

Viper, things are great in Miami. Started getting a bit cool. Nice! Where my trader is located, there is DSL available - as well as ISDN, but they have to bring it from the nearest village - which is around 2 miles away. I am still waiting for Lon Eagle to let me know, * What part of...

A few traders have suggested ISDN as an option. I know that it is availalbe where my trader is located, but I don't know what the ping times will be reduced to if we go with it or if it has enough bandwidth to handle the load. Any ideas?

How do you determine who's a good ISP? Do you give each ISP that you're considering the IP address of the broker's server and ask each to ping it? How do you know that what they're telling you is the truth? Isn't what matters the ping times from the trader's computer to the broker's server...

Hi walter, thanks for the info. He's not in London. He's in a pretty rural area of East Sussex, so that might be a big factor. Don't know if he'll have access to a dedicated fiber optic line from where he is - or else I would gladly pay the $800 a month. I'll check with the ISP's.

Hi Lon Eagle, The broker we work with for this particular set up is not a Radianz partner. I have been told by a few "experts" that Radianz is not really going to help me. Maybe there are other technologies out there that might help. I'm looking right now. I agree that the round trip 400...

Is anyone familiar with using Radianz to reduce the time it takes for the order to get to the broker's server? Strategy Runner uses Radianz. A guy from TradeBolt told me that it was possible to pay over a thousand dollars a month to trade through Radianz. If this is possible, can a trader...

We work with a trader in the UK who trades forex for our clients via MT4 using a proprietary non dealing desk feed. The problem is that his ping times to the server are around 400 ms. A few months ago, a guy at TradeBolt told me that we could pay Radianz around $1000+ a month to execute...

From my understanding, Switzerland does not provide as much protection to forex investors as the US and the UK. It does not have organizations with the same functions as the CFTC and the FSA. I have spoken to a few Swiss brokers and asked them about these things and I've always been "beaten...

Make sure you use the institutional version of HotSpot (HotSpotFxi) instead of the retail version. I have heard horror stories about the executions and games played on their retail platform - but then again, in the forex brokerage world, Retail = License to Steal.

Stay away from COESfx. I know one of their top reps who told me that their technology stinks. He's clandestinely looking for job offers behind the scenes!

"trading has closed for this pair" Maybe they "open" and "close" their forex business like the stock market! What a joke. I have never liked these guys since I had a few conferences with their head guys about 6 years ago. Got a bad "feeling" about their operation.

They are also in Switzerland. I wouldn't put any of our or our client's money there.

RedDuke, I'm sure that the CME futures route is the way to go for many traders, but not for us. I fund traders by providing them with access to investor capital. I wouldn't be able to do the same thing with futures. I would need to register with the NFA and drown in legal and regulatory BS. I'm...

"Trade with CME currency futures or wait until FXMarketSpace opens." Easier said than done, RedDuke. I'm an impatient guy, so I need to take advantage of what's out there now.

Trader/God, You are right, "With an ECN there are two ways to make money if you aren't making a market: 1. An additional commission to the spread 2. A widened spread" But this is the way for a "real ECN" to make money. Since forex is the wild, wild west of trading, a lot of crap...

Trader/God, "How could a firm that doesn't make prices on the platfrom manipulate anything?" Just look at how propfx does it. They add pips to the spread. It can be rigged. If you don't want to believe it, that's something else.

If you want Currenex, use Currenex. Go to their website and contact their white label providers that don't "rig" the spread like FXCM. I used to be an IB for FXCM. Thank God I'm wiser than that now. They restrict certain trading behavior through the PropFX product. They are manipulating the...

Hi Viper, Right now I'm thinking of trying out an app customized by one of the trader/programmers in this forum to work with ODL's Currenex. I'll compare these executions to the ones we're getting with the MT4-"institutional" rig. The only thing that I won't have with the customized app is...

QuestradeFX.com works with Gain Capital - retail broker.