Guess Oanda needed to give themselves a bottom line boost to close out February. No issues forever with MBT.

Trading equities is a much more complicated (but in some ways easier once you learn it) market. I would not try going it alone. Get help from a site like Pristine or Tradesight (google them). They do this for a living.

Why is this forum no longer under Broker Discussion? Forex Factory is doing a great disservice to its readers by moving this thread.

Ditto

OMG, you really need to learn a little. Here's a reality of ALL markets. Less than 10% of traders make money in the long run (not month to month...who the hell cares about what a broker's customers do in a month? What genius came up with that as a ...

No. And from my research, I don't think there are really any others out there that have the technology (or desire) to try to offer it.

Thanks for the unreadable pitch, but this is an MBT thread and I think I'll stick with MBT. Tried Oanda, too many issues. Good luck with them.

I ended up going with MB Trading using their Desktop Pro software and am glad that I did. Very powerful, no issues of consequence (had to log out and back in once to fix a server connection). Everything is speedy and I couldn't be more happy. I'm on ...

I did a lot of testing late in 2011 of several FX brokers and posted some of my results on FF. Frankly, I settled on MB Trading and the FREE EXN plan for a few reasons, here they were: 1) Established broker with a track record of regulation in the ...

I do, thanks for asking. I have Live PFL and Live FREE EXN accounts with them. The spike you are talking about does not show up on the weekly chart of the AUDUSD for either system.

No, the bad ticks don't trigger stops. Also, I think you should close the platform and reopen. That bad tick doesn't show on my weekly AUDUSD.

I don't know if most of you do any reading about the industry, but there are reports that Forex volumes dropped off sharply starting in November 2011. There are big layoffs at many of the big bank desks, and I've heard that volumes over the last ...

Terrific. No issues. Great quotes and execution speed. I did a lot of research, had it down to Oanda or MBT Free, and went with Free. Love it. Been live trading since January on it.

Great post. Nothing constructive at all about Quadruplex' stuff. I spent five months picking a broker. I did all of my research, much of it here via questions, but elsewhere too. I opened small live accounts with 6 ...

By the way Quadruplex, I didn't mean to imply that you were the idiot. It's the other guy. Hope that was clear. ;-)

That was actually why I started the thread, to see if people had experienced "issues" that suddenly led to losses after they raised their funds with either broker. Obviously, the old school game for FX was for the desk to give you good executions ...

That is very useful statistical information and one of the reasons that Oanda was in my final two. But you realize that MB is blowing that spread out of the water by 30% consistently? This wasn't the point of my post. I was asking if anyone that put ...

Agro- Thanks for the comment, very thorough and matches what I'm experiencing. As I said in the original post here, I already have live accounts with both, I did several months of research on a lot of brokers and had a list of variables. In the end, ...

So nobody has any bad experiences with either broker later in your relationship with them?