Betfair is good for scalpers because as a betting exchange they give DMA and you can see the real depth of market in a price ladder unlike the Retail Foreign Exchange Industry. video video video video

url url This video clip shows the comparison between an fxcm trade station 'instituational ' 25k account price feed with 'raw ' spreads along side an MBT and oanda account price feed. You can clearly see that both the later are in sync whilst ...

FXCM is a market maker, your broker is the market.

I think that if regulators truly wanted to protect traders they should put an end to some brokers deceiving advertising. Having forex mini accounts available from $200 deposit and standard forex accounts available from $1500 deposit is the first ...

There are three facts your broker does not want you to know. 1. You only have a 3-5% chance of making money through trading 2. Most accounts at Forex brokers last for between 3-6 months before blowing out or withdrawal 3. Your broker has a 97% ...

Sometimes the bigger timeframe charts aren't very good to see if the price really hit our stops or targets you need to check out the more accurate smaller timeframes. How big was your stop? Will brokers stop hunt you if you have a 200 pips ...

Yes, day trading swing moves. You mean that there isn't an exchange for forex and every market maker can have different daily candles? Or that the forex market doesn't close daily like the stocks market?

Intraday swing trading would still be a gamble?

I think that the web based Java platforms have less stability than the downloadable platforms.

Scalping without a bot is hard work and the trading costs are bigger.

I thought that FXCM were big enough to provide volume and liquidity to banks at least dbFX provides FXCM platform to the retail trader like other banks and other MM. What are the limits of FXCM or when do you need to start looking for something ...

I was watching a Rob Booker webinar and he said that in Forex 90% of the times you will not lose more than you have in your account unlike futures. I thought it was because the majority of the forex brokers are offshore and aren't complying with a ...

FXCM is a big company they will not steal your money like that. You say you are consistently making money with FXCM. I guess you aren't a news trader or a scalper like the people complaining on this thread?

If Oanda isn't a bucket shop why are they open for trading on the weekends when the interbank markets are closed? Are the spreads fixed or variable? The interbank forex market has variable spreads. If you are trading fixed spreads you are in effect ...