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Slow execution times are still a problem, with some orders taking up to 30 seconds to get filled or close. This has been consistent for the last 3 weeks or so. If there is one or two trades open, maybe you get 2-4 second closure time. But once more than 2 or 3 trades are open, we have witnessed 14-30 second delays.

And their live servers are down at the moment for the last 15 minutes or so.

edit: back online now after about 30 minutes or so. What was the downtime for?

I have read somewhere that XEmarkets is offering 100% deposit bonus. now i have also read that the brokers giving high bonus will not give you good execution and there will be other problems also.

hedging ,

I have used the 100% Bonus from XE Markets and I never had a execution issue , but be awre that the bonus is removed completly if you make any withdrwal even for one dollar. And this time it think the bonus is limited to 600USD.

Don't they have different server IPs you can choose from?

Some brokers have multiple datacenters, but only one trading server and maybe an alternate server for load balancing. But anyway, the mt4 automatically switches the connection to the best server. The user should not have to intervene in any way, especially in a VPS setup that is always on. Even if I was on the furthest away server geographically, a latency of 300ms and would put the total execution time under 1 second per ticket.

With adequate memory resources on the VPS, there are only so many things that can go wrong:

- VPS loses internet connection. Extremely unlikely unless the VPS is rebooted or otherwise goes offline. Easy to test by just looking at a different broker terminal or another program that access the internet.
- mt4 platform bug preventing connection. Possible, but unlikely unless you did an update recently. mt4 is designed to reconnect to the broker servers automatically.
- broker trading server disconnected/offline Again, just look at other terminals/programs that connect to the internet to isolate the issue.

Today we also experienced disconnects. At first I thought it was a server reboot, but it kept going in and out for about 20 min. We'll keep watching it; but the live support seems disinterested at wanting to look into the problem.

Slow execution for some some weeks :/

Same sentiment as you...but my Account Manager said there is nothing wrong according to their technical department. I have show them print screen of the disconnection but they still insist no problem at all...

What about the news trade with XEmarkets
what is the best strategy pending orders or hedge

execution is too slow.... it really sucks. today my sell order at 99.300 was executed at 98.920..... :@

Yea this broker does that to ya when you start making money off them, they slow your execution wayyyyy down. 3-7 second execution times, sux. They say they don't manipulate execution this way but either the person saying this just isn't aware they do or their not telling the truth. Stay away from this broker once your execution slows down like this otherwise they'll kill your account.

Dear iahmedz,

Regarding your inquiry about the delay in trade execution, I would like to clarify the cause of such delays.

In terms of order execution speed, there are several factors that affect forex trades, such as market volatility, trading volume and overall system availability, which, in combination, or separately, may cause minor delays at the time of trade execution. Moreover, an even more important parameter in terms of trade execution speed is whether or not these trades are placed during important economic news announcements.

At XEMarkets all trades are executed via a queuing system through our servers, which may result in a minor delays in the execution of orders. We apply the “First Come First Served” (FCFS) model of handling incoming requests for placing orders, which at times may also lead to a delay in confirmation from our liquidity providers.

Please read more details about our execution policy here: http://www.xemarkets.com/pdf/docs/XE...ion-Policy.pdf.

For any further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,
Andrey

Thankyou, but I realized this delay only occurs in micro account... there is some problem in there, you must first admit then check and take it serious.
I am a small investor, and I don't have any plan to shift to any other broker 'cause of your 888 leverage and no charges on withdrawal policy. But it really hurts who wanted to sell at 98.92? That was a pending order of mine at 99.3, and late night when I checked my account I had to close my that trade on loss. :/ I think you should make a policy of maximum slippage. If order is not executed in that range, order should not be executed. More, slippage from 99.300 to 98.920 is very very big slippage. I would have my TP above 99.

Dear iahmedz,

Please send me your account number and I will check what I can do for you. My email is andrey(at)xemarkets.com.

Best regards,
Andrey

ive used this broker for 3 years and never had any issues. i had 1 withdraw i did which was slower than i would have liked but a phone call to my account manager did the trick.

Hi there I would like an explanation for a problem I have.
i start an ea that makes a pending order with a stoploss and take profit values

example: buy stop at 1.31200 sl 1.31150 tp 1.31270
This work fine on the last two days but today it doesn't today when it triggers the entry price change
to 1.31230 but the stops remain the same

is this a way to stop my winnings ?

Today I have a diference of 45 points in an entry

Doesn't the splippage only apply to a buy or sell order ?

On Monday and Tuesday the market was highly volatile and it work as I wanted
but today is a different story.

I'm also waiting for 5 days for a authorisation to withdraw...
Interesting no ?

Hi.My account 53071. Waiting money 300$ 12 day!!?

I will go to inform my situation, to be known by all of you and see if the broker is good for your trading desires.


Two weeks ago i start coding an ea, i came across with one from the book on mq4l site and start with that, modify a few things and start testing.

On last monday, when the market open i start on one pair, it work fine, the ea allow me to choose how many pendings i want to open, so after i tested for 20 i let it run, and it run great, no slippage, no problems, the stops and open prices were allways correct from the pendings when they become active, no diference from pending to active order for the last 3 market days. (was testing it before going all the way on monday)


On Monday i made 5.90€ ( my account when i start code was 9,69€ )
On Tuesday i open another pair, test it and make also 20 pendings on that one, AGAIN ALL STOPS AND PRICES WERE THE SAME NO DIFERENCE FROM PENDING TO ACTIVE ORDER, this is very important, in 4 days, 96hrs of open market i never had a problem with slippage.

I made 12,59€ on Tuesday, and the stats where this :

"Short Positions (won %): 2017 (99.95%) Long Positions (won %): 2274 (100.00%)"

So why only after 96hrs of open market and after i got that stats i start to have problems with slippage ??, the entry prices change and everything went wrong. and the problem is mine because i make high frequency trading ? from a 4 years old laptop with 2.10ghz and 4gb of memory.

On thursday ( yesterday ) i receive an email saying that i had made high frequency trades and they will temporary shout down my account.
Today i already have my account back but i'm only trade 2 pendings at time, and even only these pendings i have wrong values when they became active.

I do not need a response, this is just to show you all how the slippage worked for me.
You have to agree, 96hrs of open, delete, closing trades without a single problem it's a long time, i was happy with the code and in 24hrs my legs were cut off.

some brokers are very sly in terms of their wording. for example, xemarkets states that "99.35% of all orders executed in less than 1 sec." now, 1 sec comprises of 1000ms and the question becomes how exactly did they test this? you may think that when you press the buy or sell button in your trading terminal, the order will be processed and you will see that you have purchased or sold a pair 1000ms later. Of course, this interpretation is what xemarkets wants you to think, enticing you that you can get this speed. however, in reality, ofc, it really depends on your connection to their server as well. so, back to xemarkets' statement. what they really mean is that after we receive your order, there's 99.35% chance that it will be processed within 1000ms. now, considering how reliable servers are, having the order handled by the server internally shouldn't be long at all so this is really just an empty statement IMO.

the other problem with many brokerages is that they are becoming more and more clever with how they choose to scam clients. randomly saying there has been a fund transfer issue where they claim funds have been transferred but the other party never received it is getting old and 3rd party logs make it very easy to see who's telling the truth and who's not. i have heard of some traders actually do live recordings of themselves trading and if any suspicious activities happen, they will have proof. otherwise, if it is just like another trading day, the recorded video will just be deleted. perhaps this will slow some traders down, but think about it, the system resources used by a trading terminal isn't a whole lot so adding one more application to film your screen isn't too much of a burden considering if any suspicious activities do arise, it makes great proof. so just how exactly are brokers scamming clients? i'm pretty sure you've heard this before, but just to say it again: requotes, slippages, connection speed, and so on. market makers are allowed a certain number of requotes, but some more than others really like to test the boundaries of this. as for xemarkets, you can see that they advertise no requotes, which just means slippage during highly volatile markets. i personally don't mind requotes, in fact, i would much rather have no slippage and requotes rather than no requotes and slippages. this is because the requote gives me the option to choose whether or not i want to enter it at the new price. as for xemarkets, remember that they have a leeway of 1000ms or 1 sec to process your trade when received, they can really use this to look at the price for a whole minute and just give you a negative slippage.

note: in no way am I accusing XEMarkets for doing such activities, I am only stating that it is possible for this to be done. Based on how XEMarkets worded their execution policy, it is more than possible for them to do such activities as, after all, they more or less said how they operate.

just one more thing, do not look at the execution speed as the brokers claim. after taking statistics, this figure can really be skewed by using maybe the mean instead of median or using median instead of the mean, or even use the mode (most frequently occured timing) to analyze their internal workings. also, there's no way to see how detailed they went into this figure like did they test it with 10 accounts, or just one of their better server locations, or something else. do you own test, it's not that hard, full instructions can be found in this thread:

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=337102

thank you for your response, i'm new to trading and until now i didn't know what was requotes, but starting to understand.

I get everything you said, the broker have "time" to see everything, probably that's what happen.

The only thing that i realy can't understand is how can i had my code working like i wanted for 96hrs and after that it started to fail..
it's impressive when i watch my trade history every trade open from the pendings where correct, no splippage at all.

Example,
Pending was at 1,33456 sl 1,33396 tp 1,33524, if this became active. the values were the same
96 hrs later, the same trade open at 1,33447 or 1,33466 i think you get the point.

Now i'm only trade 2 pendings at a time and even those ones get different values