Quote from 4XQs:
If the market is 20 pips wide during news, that's what the real market is.
I'm not that impressed with the 'real' market to be honest, I prefer to have 99.99% of my orders filled at the price I asked for, fixed spreads, no partial fills or slippage without the option to accept/decline a requote, and the opportunity to trade even when there is very little liquidity. Sounds like a reasonable deal to me.
I can't see the attraction of the real market, bucketshops are fine for me and my style of trading but of course they may not suit everyone.