Pepperstone VS IC Markets?

Icmarkets is by far the best broker out of these two options with superior execution and very small spreads...you can also receive free access to selectedalpha.com market scanners if you open a live account through them....nice bonus for a new trader..

I agree with you Dave7878. But what would be the best choice within these two in terms of leverage?

hi all,

i'm sorry if this offend someone. i'l just trying to find a new broker and came to this thread. seeing the next alternative to pepperstone is icmarkets, i tried this new broker on august 10th, 2021. i'd been with pepperstone for a couple years and so far, other than frequent freezing and funny charts, i have no other complaints. the freeze is like the whole world is moving other than the platform. even the timer stop. however, the execution proceeds. after the platform 'move' again, all the execution of orders are intact. if you use ea, i'm sure you understand. the difference is that i can't see the orders until the platform move again. this is fine as all expected orders are executed. however, the charts are really funny. the real price is not what shown in the chart for standard account. this means the price shown in the mt4 chart is razar account price and execution price is the standard account price. thus, i need to use razor account to 'visual trade' and copy trade to standard account since the chart in standard account is not the real price. not the real price means the indicators are all false. but all these are solvable. so, i have no complain and keep the account.

however, after opening a demo account with ic market on tuesday, i started testing my ea on wednesday, august 11th, 2021. the first day is fine. the second day, i found the price i get is different from other platforms. i run 12 platforms at the same time with different brokers using the same parameters and same ea. i tried to check the execution and found the entry price is always worst that other platforms. i made a small amendment of my ea and it works fine until today. out of the sudden, i received an email from icmarkets (see attachment). i thought icmarkets accept scalpers and high frequency trading. i'm not a scalper. but i do move my stop loss every pips when the price is to my advantage. when my ea is earning, i will have many orders in the same direction, thus the ea will move the stop loss to protect the orders every pip to my advantage. i trade 9 currencies and so far, i have no problem with pepperstones and fxpro and fpmarkets and xm and tickmills and hotforex with this kind of moving stop loss. but i am very much surprised that 2000 messages a day is considered hyper activity. i wonder how icmarkets handle scalpers and high frequency traders if they can't handle moving stop loss. i checked my orders and i have less than 20 orders that need to move stop loss. please do reconsider if you are a scalper or tend to have many trading a day. it looks like icmarkets can't handle large orders, perhaps they have very limited resources such as servers. i'll shy away from a broker that do not wish to invest in servers. perhaps i'm wrong but this emails worries me. i felt threathened as my trading ea will move stop loss to protect my profit. if i can't even move stop loss for about 16 profit orders' stop loss, can anybody earn from this kind of broker? please correct me if you see fit. any advice or inputs are most welcome. thank you and have a great weekend.

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