Too bad Etrade Bank will not issue a credit card to a non-US resident. Any suggestions for a bank/brokerage account with debit/credit card?

That stop limit is like bounds at Oanda.

IB is great IF you get filled. Other than that I'm not too thrilled about it, max 50:1 with no maintenance margin so it's more like 25:1 tradeable, all positions lumped into one and even that clumsily. BookTrader is great for short term scalping, ...

JBB, you didn't get what johnedoe said: you need to use the minmax chart to see the spread. You do understand that if you're long you're stopped with the bid price (the lower price), right? The minmax chart shows you the extremes between bid and ...

There's no advance warning you're supposed to watch your news calendar and expect it to happen. It only happens on major news as you can tell from the spread history, mostly the 8.30 am releases. If you're sensitive to the spread use the minmax rate ...

Of course it changes live all the time. There are no messages like that on Oanda's platform. There are no requotes. Please try trading with Oanda's free game account instead of guessing.

Oanda's real recent spreads url 5 pips on eurusd is high, usual has been 3.5 pips even on NFP or other major news.

Tick the 'keep window open' box in the buy/sell window and put confirmations off. Have separate windows for buy and sell open all the time. True 1 click trading. Close with opposite order instead of using the 'close trade' option and you know what ...

I'd run screaming away if the broker didn't have internal bookkeeping and transactions logs. So they always fully know your positions and what's been happening. They still earn their part of the commission/spread and a very unhonest ECN could spike ...

I think you failed to read their 'fast market policy' on their website. It's like fixed...except it's not fixed. It pays to read a broker's conditions fully before committing funds. Don't believe fancy ads and marketing hype, go for the small print ...

Read FXSol's 'fast market policy'. I'd rather be in the market than get slippage, delay or both.

Check your news release calendar daily and beware of the release times and you'll be safe from spread widenings 99% of the time. The remaining 1% is for those unexpected things that hit the market without advance warning. If you're in an open trade ...

That Phil Davis guy always makes me smile when he lumps up FXCM, Interactive Brokers and Oanda all together on the same list. In actuality only one of these is known for bad practices like requotes from dealing desk, probably for the reason that two ...

If you get a flatline or blank display with Fxtrade just close the connection, exit your browser, clear your java cache and reconnect and you should be fine. In a year of trading this has happened to me two times, usually there have been general net ...

It's max 50:1 plus the maintenance margin, or "Airbag" as they call it, another 50 for a total of 100:1. They've licensed the Oanda platform and the margin requirements seem to be identical.

Traded the NFP at Oanda, eurusd spread 3.5 compared to normal 1.5 pips or even superlow 0.9 pips on the lull before newstime, all went smoothly as usual. I don't use limit orders because they're useless when the market gaps. If I get the news before ...

If you guys researched even just a little you'd find that there are plenty of brokers whose platform do not even have an option for manual execution, where there are no requotes nor any else totalcrap associated with FXCM...with smaller spreads to ...

If your broker is crappy why on earth does anyone stay with them, it's not like there's a shortage of forex brokers in the world! If their business model is built on working exactly like that the last thing they're gonna do is change it. Get better ...

Any bank will (should) give you a market quote usually at least 100 thousand or more. Just ask for it. Ask an American bank if your locals seem sleepy. Or if your goal is to trade forex you could try to time it as you'll get good rate usdcad right ...

Usdjpy is good for a carry for quite some time to come, but we might see lower levels for now. Might, as the carry tends to skew the reality quite a bit.