i've seen several posts by Nick and obviously you have strong feelings against FXCM. i've noticed that you've characterized them as a "bucket shop" in several posts you've made.
not sure what you define as a bucket shop considering their financials with the CFTC show otherwise. they have quite a bit of money and i've entrusted them with my own account for roughly 3 years.
i'm no babe in the woods (been trading over 9 years; 4 in FX) and i've done my homework. i'm pretty sure, as best as i can tell, that FXCM is a pretty big player and so far the pricing/execution i get through them has been solid.
obviously, there's no "perfect" market maker and even they have room for improvement. but in terms of the overall package i'm pretty happy with them and pretty confident that they won't disappear off the face of the planet anytime soon...not something that i can say for many of the smaller shops out there that might be better suited for the characterization of "bucket shop". ;-)