Oanda disconnects

Quote from forestgril:

I've also read about a trader, which account was suspended (no connection at all), when he became profitable. The only thing that helped was changing IP adress! Interesting, is it not?
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That's nothing, there was a guy on their forum who made a joke one weekend when the Oanda servers were down (maintenance but no-one bothered to let anyone know) saying that they had probably skipped town with all the money! lol, most people saw the funny side of it and had a good laugh, not Olsen, he phoned the guy at home and told him he had 48 hours to move his account!! That wasn't easy because he was a grid trader and had dozens of open trades.

From what Olsen said in the forum this guy was a good client with a substantial account. Is that really the way to do business? They claim they have an open forum and then do something like that over a joke comment, and it was them that was in the wrong anyway for not letting people know their servers would be down that weekend.

Oanda aren't a broker for serious traders, they're a standing joke, anyone with an iota of common sense or trading experience knows that.
 
Quote from cabletrader:

That's nothing, there was a guy on their forum who made a joke one weekend when the Oanda servers were down (maintenance but no-one bothered to let anyone know) saying that they had probably skipped town with all the money! lol, most people saw the funny side of it and had a good laugh, not Olsen, he phoned the guy at home and told him he had 48 hours to move his account!! That wasn't easy because he was a grid trader and had dozens of open trades.

From what Olsen said in the forum this guy was a good client with a substantial account. Is that really the way to do business? They claim they have an open forum and then do something like that over a joke comment, and it was them that was in the wrong anyway for not letting people know their servers would be down that weekend.
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heh..what?
 
Quote from Ivanovich:

heh..what?
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I'm serious, I've forgotten the guys username now but he had been on there for quite a while.

I'm not joking, Olsen posted in the thread himself something about shouting fire in a theatre, he was seriously pissed.

It's things like this, and mysterious disconnections which they blame on the clients ISP, 200 pip 'mistake' spread on Cable, prices freezing, it all tells me to give them a very wide berth!
 
Cable - He had to be joking. No way he would have risked something like that with a good client unless he was VERY familiar with the client and it was April Fools or something.

I'm going to check it out, however. You've got me raising an eyebrow in concern.
 
Quote from forestgril:

an here is a text of this guy with IP problems, doesn't seem like he's cheating, or does it?

http://www.forex-tsd.com/43769-post1.html

ok, friends, I have to finish and get back to work, the EUR/USD will soon be on the strong downslide I think :)
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So this guy thinks that because he turned profitable, he was disconnected? If that was true, i would have been disconnected long, long ago.

If he was serious about proving this, he would have done trace routes with the IPs. Or at least has some data to prove his claim.
 
Quote from forestgril:


ok, friends, I have to finish and get back to work, the EUR/USD will soon be on the strong downslide I think :)
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In that case I think I'll buy :p

See ya, have a great day!
 
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