DislikedI am well aware what a bucketshop is and I've been taking money from them for the past 5 years http://cdn.forexfactory.com/images/s.../yim/happy.gif.Ignored
DislikedBut I've got to say that the confusion is mostly on your side because you are assuming that an STP always routes to an ECN network. Sure, some STP's route to ECN brokers. But many brokers who claim to be STP are just middlemen brokers who route to market makers but these middlemen call themselves STP because they are passing trades through to someone else. Many of the STP's fall into this category.Ignored
DislikedAnd by the way if you read ECN brokers terms and conditions it states that the broker may at times be the counterparty to your trades thus at times matching trades and at other times acting as market maker.Ignored