Dislikedforextrapips & geges - folks i have acc w ibfx us too. but im considering AU they offer 1:400.. also metals. they are not ecn, usually not much problems, spreads widen yeah. maybe stop hunting a little bit but not much..
pipkiller - MBT im looking seriously into it. tight spreads, metals too.. but a lot of negative reviews too.. do you ever use tight stops? have you seen suspicious stop-hunting , overwidening spreads? withdrawal experience?Ignored
If scalping for just a few pips, then Metatrader is the platform to use, The commissions will kill you on the other platforms.
Now with Metals, you probably need to subscribe to a futures feed which costs a bit. I was playing around on demo and tried to trade Silver$ and got a message that it was restricted as are some of the exotic currency pairs on the platform. Something you need to look into, doesn't bother me as I don't trade that stuff live anyways.
I haven't withdrawn anything with them yet, I do like that they have ACH transfer that doesn't cost anything. I can vouch for IBFX, no problem there.
I dug around NFA and CFTC a bit too before going with MB.
I've read the reviews and they are all over the place. Most people don't say anything when stuff is good but will get real load when something goes wrong. Remember 80% or probably more lose money and will blame everyone but themselves and their broker is first in line.
Eventually I will probably move to Tradestation Forex. I really, really like the platform. They are the new kid on the block so I'm giving them a little time to work out the kinks. They were a MM before but I believe they are ECN now.
I don't care which way the market is going as long as it's going my way