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Short @ 1.3987.

Stopped out -6 pips.

Short @ 1.3985.

Stopped out -4 pips.

EURUSD short @ 1.3969.

Whatever you feel better/safer to trade is the best for you to trade. :D I have no reason to convince anyone to trade one market or another... Just share my own experience, which is not negative regarding the spot FX brokers I used.

Yeah, this problem only actual for crappy "brokers", not for spot FX as a whole.

Yes, but average deal cost is higher vs. spot @ Oanda. Adds up when you have 10's of trades a month and tiny average profit per trade. And as for news, I don't trade the big news anyway, so spread widening is not an issue practically.

Spread increases around big news @ Oanda and yes, occasionally may stop you out. But generally no problems about it. It doesn't anywhere near turn profitable strategy into losing one. :)

Trade both, but mostly spot. Spreads these days allow for very tight stops.

Always have fixed stop-loss attached to the entry order even before I enter a trade. Amount of that hard stop-loss is 6 pips. But I tend to make it even smaller according to price action after the entry, so actual losses are often smaller, like 3 pips etc.

So runners occur mostly when market really breaks out and doesn't look back. Then I can take 20 or even more pips on a single trade.

Exits are very simple: as price starts to stall when trade is ITM enough, I bail. Often market indeed offers much more than I take, but quick scalps make equity curve much smoother and emotionally that's more comfortable. Statistically I know for sure that holding for more would make more...

Long stopped out b/e.

EURUSD long @ 1.3959.

Closed short for a profit of 6 pips.

EURUSD short 1.3965.

Done for today, troubles in Japan caused a lot of volatility. Here's the chart explaining today's best EURUSD scalp trade: http://www.cornixforex.com/2011/03/forex-scalp-example-chart.html

Shorted 1.3934, but already stopped out b/e.

Stopped out of short for -3 pips.