DislikedThank you for that explanation I tought the office you contact to get assistance in modifying your trades over the phone was called a deal desk.Ignored

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DislikedThank you for that explanation I tought the office you contact to get assistance in modifying your trades over the phone was called a deal desk.Ignored
DislikedThanks for the interesting and informative post, Justin.
How do you respond to being described as "much (more) expensive" than Hotspot or IB. Is it a fair comparison?Ignored
DislikedLiquidity isn't a problem with real ECNs. ;-)
You claim that MBT offers more liquidity and customers than other competitors.
But your spreads are mostly 1pip+ higher than the others especially versus Hotspot - that's a little bit strange. ;-)
I doubt that big daytraders deal with you.Ignored
DislikedI already have Live account with MTB but don't use it anymore - Hotspot do quite better and cheaper.Ignored
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Do you have live account with us?
I only ask because if you were actually watching our quotes you would see many times the majors on our system are less then a pip and the GBP/JPY has been averaging 2-3 pips....do you know another broker who can offer the GBP/JPY at that spread?Ignored
Dislikedis MBtrading really an ecn? usually ecns will not let you trade minis and mb does. they also will not disclose the banks they get their feed from nor say anything about a clearing firm. i watched the spread today and it was very similar to fxdd and ibfx.Ignored
DislikedMB trading is marketmaker, because no one marketplace will not offer you start trading with 400$. Only marketplaces in the world is lava, hotsop, curenex and Dukascopy swiss marketplaceIgnored
DislikedMB trading is marketmaker, because no one marketplace will not offer you start trading with 400$. Only marketplaces in the world is lava, hotsop, curenex and Dukascopy swiss marketplaceIgnored
DislikedHotSpot DOES have a limitation of not modifying a STANDING order which THEY hold on their servers if it is 10 pips from the market.Ignored
QuoteDislikedAs for commission, the out-of-box comish offering from HotSpot kills MB hands down.
QuoteDislikedWhile I have observed some spread superiority with MB, I can tell you that HotSpot is way deeper in terms of liquidity. I have observed that at any given time you will see around 3 mio on either side of the price with MB, and at most 10-30 mio on either side of the price, with some brief exceptions.
QuoteDislikedSo the only thing I can figure is that TD / MB perceives some sort of strategic operations protection in not disclosing them. I don't think it's to cover up a secret deal desk operation, but I guess we can't know for 100% sure about any of the ECNs until the CFTC comes to town and cleans house.
QuoteDislikedAnd don't even get me started on IB historical data availability. Utter garbage.
QuoteDislikedAs for MB vs. HSFX data availability, for the most part all things are equal there currently, though HSFX is planning something HUGE, and I won't say anything more than that so I don't blow MY competitive advantage
DislikedInteresting.. So any limit order placed into their system within 10 pips of the market can't be edited or canceled? I take it this is perhaps to help reduce bandwidth and/or deter multi-ECN scalpers/arb'ers, but I would find it very difficult knowing I couldn't cancel/alter my live orders.
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MB's book is deeper than you describe. Here's a RT snapshot of the Aussie book and the inside is fairly large:
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DislikedI'll agree that one year of daily data & 30-days of intraday is rather lacking, but from an ECN perspective, where is the competition in this matter? Last I checked, HSFX and MBT still don't have historical data/charting.Ignored