does anyone here trade with Alpari US? If you do could you please tell us the pros and cons?
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Dislikedit may not sound like a lot but I have been trading for about 4 months. I had a trade that went to profit and set my SL 5 pips about my buy. The price then spiked down right to my SL and went right back up. When I checked the chart from another broker (demo acct) and from Amibroker the patterns were very different. Neither of the other accounts came close to my SL. Before making any accusations, I would like to compare someone elses chart to the three I have and submit them to Alpari.
Any other suggestions would be welcome.
RichIgnored
DislikedYou can ask Alpari to adjust your account for that false spike, and there's a good chance they will do it. If they don't though, then you'll know you were the victim of a classic stop hunt.
This is a common practice, and is one of the common complaints when trading with a bucketshop. It's something the banks do as well, but in those cases you'll see prices moving everywhere and not just on one broker's platform.
As for checking someone else's charts, why do you need to do that? It sounds like you already have the information you need. If you...Ignored
DislikedTC east
thanks for the info. I was looking for someone else's charts to see if the difference was specific to my account or a general phenomena to Alpari. I am aware of the stop hunts that occur, but I may be naive, I would think that would not sit well with the regulators. How can you look at charts and learn technical analysis if someone is always looking over my shoulder ready to spoil my gotten gains?
I will send to Alpari tonight but would still like to know if anyone can send me that chart.
thanks.
RichIgnored
DislikedI know that this question is over asked time and again, but then who is a decent broker, with reasonable spreads?? Would you share who your broker is?Ignored
Dislikednope. They trade against you and have the platform rigged with loads of anti-scalper crap. - if you're a honest trader not having a clean playing field hurts you too.Ignored
DislikedAlso,
How much exactly would these anti-scalping things hurt other traders? Are we talking about 1 pip here? 5 sec execution?
If I am trading on the 15min time frame, would this hurt me? 5 min?
Also, I've been told FXDD is also a bucketshop but it's actually pretty good - I'm guessing this means that they just have fewer "anti-scalping crap"?Ignored
DislikedI have an account with fxdd for nearly four years now and never had any problem with them.Ignored