Demo account problems

I have heard a lot of good things about Interbank FX, so I thought I would give it a try. Nothing but problems so far. Server seems to be down alot and I had never experienced requotes until I tried using them. I was interested in them because of their straight thru processing.

I have never had problems using Alpari, always a connection even after hours, but no straight thru processing.

My Interbank account is a demo. I think I may go with Alpari when I go live.

Has anyone experienced problems with Interbank FX?

best damn broker i ever dealt with, sorry to hear about your demo problems

I've been trading w/ IBFX since 2005 ... they're really top-notch. No major problems. The worst was a horrendous spike (over 100 pips in 1 tick) once in the exotics, which knocked me prematurely out of several trades. Even though they showed that the same spike was clearly on the Bloomberg charts, they still reversed the stop-outs which I had suffered, restoring my trades (after I had requested it, of course).

Sometimes there are server/connection problems, but some of those are due to internode problems (between you and the broker), as well as a few hyper-grid traders who have thousands and even tens-of-thousands of trades open at a time. That forced IBFX to limit the account history reporting from the platform to the past few months, but all the history can be retrieved from an online account.

Back in 2006, they were also very helpful in resolving why the MT4 platform was freezing during major news releases. You'll still get requoted a lot if you're trying to scalp the news w/ market orders, though. Use pending orders instead: they are always filled on the dot, at least in my experience. SLs & TPs are also filled exactly.

In general, they frown on very quick scalping, but as long as you're in for at least 90 seconds and don't use heavy lots, you won't be "flagged" as a scalper.

I do most of my trading via an EA, and I've never had any problems. Orders are executed lightening fast, much faster it seems than manually placed ones.

My friend has a Reuter feed, and he reports that IBFX matches Reuter price action & spreads quite well. But sometimes, IBFX can stray from FXCM quite a bit, and then play catch-up. (Very rarely, but it does happen.)

Overall, I give IBFX a big thumbs up .

Thanks for the feedback!!!

I also wanted to mention I was not trying to promote on Broker over another
although it sounded like it. My apologies.

been using alpari for live trading. i am very much okay with dem. few requotes, quick withdrawals, good customer feedback by mails.