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The principle of binary betting is great, but IGMarkets is well known to freeze your account when you are winning too often or too much. And it doesn't matter if you are a gambler as long as you are a successful one. Actually, isn't gambling or spreadbetting taxfree in the UK?

There are plenty of 3rd party softwares that are providing real time prices, so if the broker or the MM would really try to cheat you, you can always enter an order that would be close to the last OFFICIAL quote. Even true marketmakers (like CFDs brokers) use realtime quotes and their prices...

Try a proxy server, uexkuell. Just google proxy servers and you'll get plenty of adresses to bypass your actual ISP's server

IDEAL has very low volume, so it's logical that you were filled at such a price. Next time, chose IDEAL PRO, not IDEAL for orders over 25000

Actually Cabletrader, you shouldn't ask Oanda why such a glitch occured... and instead just profit from such 'problem' the next time

If you wish to trade European stock, specially the German stocks (the German exchanges are not part of the Euronext) take a look at www.flatex.de Their REAL flat fee is hard to beat and they won't charge extra commissions each time you have to change the price of your order, like at IB. Oh and...

For UK shares, the best way is to use CFDs to avoid the stamp duty (and market makers are so easy to screw :D )

Not everything that is shiny and new works perfectly...or at all. Using that ##### (insert what ever bad word you want : it will fit) of java 1.6, I had to click several times on the transmit button, each time I wanted to enter and order. Let other people be their guinea pig

Actually the commissions are the key factor, if you want to succeed in HF trading. Let's say, you would do 500 r/t per day and you would pay 1 cent spread for the 10000 shares, this would make 100$ in fees per r/t. Of course, it would be better to have to pay a flat fee around 6$, per side...

Silvio Berlusconi and his French buddy Nicolas can actually push for a change of the ECB's mandate so Trichet and co would have the obligation to take care of the EU's growth too.

Rightttttt, a platform on which the cancellation of an order takes more than 10 seconds is certainly an advantage. Actually, it is for those who need only 1 second. :D

A few days ago, a few threads on ET were about 'how safe is your broker' or something like 'will IB going to be bankrupt?' and now it is like 'oh my, the margin on some stocks will be reduced'. What do you prefer? The safety of your funds or the probability that you will face another Refco?

Well, well, the morality of this thread is : don't believe everything that is written on IB's site (the limit trail orders are neither working on many exchanges even if this option is listed as available... and that's a fact)

Hi, Does the hidden option on Canada's exchange PURE work? It is one thing to write on IB's site, that the hidden option is available on many stock exchanges, when in reality it doesn't. Last time I checked that option didn't worked on the TSE, IBIS, SBF (well probably all Euronext and many...

Even if someone would watch a foreign TV channel for thousand and thousand of hours (may it be Russian, Finnish, Chinese etc you name it), would this person be able to learn or even master the language in question? To become profitable you have to understand how the market works.

If you have enough money, open two accounts, so if one has a bug or is suffering several disconnections per day/each day of the year, you won't waste time and be prepared to something awkward(when it takes up to 4 minutes to transmit an order to an exchange, like today for me, you are getting...

This story was certainly made up just to cover the Societe Generale's own trading mistakes. It is said that the trader played for a year and he constantly had to cover his tracks : so he never went into vacation and worked from 8:00 GMT to 20:00 GMT?(trading hours of the DAX futures). Yeah...

Actually there is another possibility that an intruder could do, that would be worse than just trying to steal you : put you in heavy debts. (an employee of a broker I dealt with several years ago tried to enter my account, since he knew the login code, but thank goodness not the password. I...

You can predict the course of an asteroid but not the irrational behavior of humans, so maths are definitely not the ultimate key to be a successful trader.

Before opening an account at a UK stockbroker, think about the stamp duty (an extra charge on top of the commissions). That's why CFDs are so popular in the UK (even if the marketmakers are betting against you)