class action against FXCM

Quote from RoughTrader:

No, not that I have seen. I see the bid and the ask track each other quite tightly even during news events. The most I've seen the bid and ask spread at is 3 ticks. Most of the time, you can get in and out with limit orders and don't have to pay any spread, just commish.

RoughTrader

But can you get in with stop orders in the increasingly popular "news straddle" style? I bet you'd see massive slippage if you tried that at 0829 EST on NFP Friday.
 
Welcome to the Manual EXEC CULB

in fact i couldn't hold to be manual for more than 2 days after that i realized that i have a zero chance to make money under this system

try another broker or open a new account under one of your family name

forget about going to the cort

Regards
 
King74,

Both my brother and I have accounts with FXCM and sure enough after the last updates we can no longer excute trades on speed, specially during news accouncements. No matter what time of the day, we receive the "waiting for dealer" message. This company has become more and more of a joke and we are looking for another provider at the moment. DO they think we are stupid!

FXCM claims it's because of low volume, when approached about the latest updates and their speed they begin selling us their PropFx service ( which is crap btw).
 
Quote from captlu:

King74,

Both my brother and I have accounts with FXCM and sure enough after the last updates we can no longer excute trades on speed, specially during news accouncements. No matter what time of the day, we receive the "waiting for dealer" message. This company has become more and more of a joke and we are looking for another provider at the moment. DO they think we are stupid!

FXCM claims it's because of low volume, when approached about the latest updates and their speed they begin selling us their PropFx service ( which is crap btw).

I hope you are not surpised. Go with oanda or ib for forex or any broker for currency futures.
 
Quote from RedDuke:

I hope you are not surpised. Go with oanda or ib for forex or any broker for currency futures.

I could not said that better myself.
 
Chris-
how long were you making a profit, and what time frame did you typically trade?

Please let me know - I'm curious because i was thinking of going back to retail fx to run some fairly conservative intra-day strategies... i used gft, about a year ago, though

thx

Quote from cking74:

Why the change? I am consistently making a profit, so now they are handicapping me. They will only do this if you are making a profit and make no mention of it anywhere on the account application or on their website.

Enough is enough. Theses guys are crooks.

Chris King
 
Here is an excerpt of the complaint against FXCM filed in federal court, illustrating one of the schemes

"On May to September FXCM represented that it could not honor the price quoted for a currency exchange trade because the “price had moved”. The representation was false, the true facts were that the original price quoted was not the real price, but a delayed price. FXCM benefited by this misrepresentation by effecting Plaintiff's trades at a false price when it was beneficial to FXCM, but denying the trade when it was not."
 
And who decides what the "true" price is? The marketmaker, as per your agreement with him. I guess the only one makeing money of this lawsuit will be your lawer. Anyways, keep posting your progress, i find that interesting. Any timeframe on when a decision is to be expected?
 
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