From Demo to Live: Expecting the unexpected

Hi Accrete,

I think you have a technical issue. I have had both a demo and a live account with Oanda for several months and I have not experience any technical issues with them.
They have an open forum (not regulated) where anybody can go and post their opinion and the technical issues are very small.
I hope this help
Frank

I've been around the broker block and I find FXSol as the one that I can live with. The Oanda spread spikes at news time and their java trading platform freezing, hanging and crashing was just too much to take. With FXSol you download their trading platform software to your computer and it just plain works.

Just for the record...In over a year of using Oanda I've never had any crashing of the platform. As for freezing that happened a few times and did not last more then a couple of seconds or so, nothing to even mention.
Spreads widening...That I take it as normal behavior in news time and it doesn't affect my strategy.

Consider yourself fortunate soso because I can give you a list of dozens of traders I know, and myself, that Oanda's trading platform is not very stable around news time. If you don't trade around those times, then you may never have experienced them, but if you trade news events, you absolutely would have experienced these freezes, crashes and lockouts not to mention the unpredictable spread spikes.

you can open some greedy positions like %50 amount of your account and can lose %50 of your initial deposit in a night and you can wait at least 5 months for right position and complain about your missed chances.. you can think all nights and days in these 5 months what can you earn. sometimes you can think like "i am a loser".. don't give up. just take small positions and make some dollar with more pips. then you will learn what you can do in real account

Only had a demo for a week and it did the same with me today, wouldnt let me close trades a few days ago, which is the reason i switched from FXCM

oanda is great choice for newbies and pros as well