Accounts in euro

Is it a common thing to offer accounts in euro ? The borker I am demoing with, Alpari, is offering that and too me it sounds like a must-have. If I earn USD and have to change them "manually" in EUR later, I may lose what I've earned (yeah I know, I suppose I may earn something).
I can't see why I would go for a broker offering USD-only accounts.

MIG is a brutal broker, shitty execution and lagging prices. Great broker!

If you earn a living, pay bills and so on in EUR than I would keep your account in EUR's. There are many brokers out there though that offer Major Currency accounts so it would make sense for you to deal with one of those brokers.

hi gbart,

ive been thinking about this recently and ive spent hours and hours looking arround for a decent broker that would offer MT4, since its essential to me, with eur accounts and reasonable spread and would be tolerant towards scalping(optional)... i remember ive contacted support of basically all known brokers and reached no satisfying point.
finally i decided to take a usd account, meaning im short eur/usd (since i live in europe and earn euros). to avoid the effect price fluctuations might have on my deposit as well as on my profits i decided to open a position equal to my deposit to hedge it.

example1 usd account: u transfer 10.000 eur at a rate of 1.30, so u get 13.000$. some time goes by, u manage to make 10% profit. new balance: 14.300$... in the meantime price went up to 1.45 and your deposit is worth 9862€... sure, sooner or later price might drop again, but i wouldnt count on that. look at a chart of the last few years to see how euro made it from below 1.00 all the way up to 1.60

example2 usd account, hedged: u transfer 10.000 eur at a rate of 1.30, so u get 13.000$ and you open a position of 1.00 minilots (equal 10.000€)... so price rises to 1.45... your 13.000$ are now worth 8965€ and from your long position u make 1500$ equal 1034€... so the total is 10.000€ unchanged.
not counted the 10% profit u made on the way... i would suggest to instantly open another 0.10 lots position for that...
do not forget swap: this might be a two sided sword, as currently im paying neg swap for eurusd long positions... but there have been times were u could have made nice swap as an additional bonus, and if (later than sooner) interest rates rise again you might be able to make nice swap, just for holding your position equal in value.