alpari uk - impossible to trade news?

I tried trading the Employment change, and got requoted 3 or 4 times before I could buy. One of them was a good long delay, 5 seconds? Anyway I got in around 30 pips later than I initially tried and am pretty frustrated. I was wondering if anyone else has had this kind of experience, if other brokers are better, etc.

Oh to be more specific, I have "enable maximum deviation from quoted price" checked and set to 10 pips (the highest possible setting). When I wrote asking about this they told me 1 pip with them was .00001

what do u expect you're trading with Alpari!

Get a ECN MT4 broker.

For example, can you recommend something in particular?

You are trying to trade news spikes, and that is very difficult to do nowadays. What you are describing is completely normal behavior for brokers. Finding a broker that will work at news is something you have to figure out for yourself; if somebody has found that diamond in the rough, that aren't going to tell you about it.

Your options are an ECN broker, although you will see massive spread widening at news, or a fixed spread bucketshop that will actually fill your order without requoting. Neither scenario is likely to work, but it can still be done from time to time.

BTW, you can set "maximum deviation" to whatever you want; 10 is not the maximum. Just click in that box and type in any number you want. You can put 10,000 pips in there if you want to...

good explanation and thanks. makes me feel better about alpari uk.

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Interactive Brokers.

ATC Brokers
MB Trading

Ikon Royal also offer ECN MT4 not sure on news trading though.....

MB trading now has MT4 which i do not use and another "regular" option. both ECN. I would rather pay commission than to trade against the house. Maybe I am crazy... BUT..

May try MT4.... But was just about to open new live with MM and I am holding out for further testing of MBee. I know 2 people that use them and they offer other markets as well besides FX. Nothing but positive words I have heard as well as good reviews.

Customer service very informed and helpful.. They have not solicited me once since demo app. Where as other 3 MMs are as follows

MM-1. 20 to 25 emails and a 3 month period of 2 calls per week. usually w/o voicmail left- some with a VM -- ULTRA agressive sales tactics. Annoying - yet sexy voiced girls call to try to lure you in. When i actually was around one of their 'Seminars" free- In NYC I popped in with a friend. So many suckers there just waiting to lose all their money! LOL.
---- I used to get massive internet slowdown and lag on Aussie / Asia Opens.?!?! C'mon. Re-quotes Consistently--- slippage.. AND since it was a demo even took some of their "Top Traders' " calls -- Just to see and won more often in the opposite direction then following.... R O F L... Charting SUCKED. AND they post steering little "insider" news. LOL - to help you lose all your money. - ALL THIS ON DEMO -- I even changed the Demo to a mini with 2gs and still was going thru same BS. AMAZING

When I confronted the guy about trading ECN vs Dealing desk he was a bit speechless @ first--- then proceeded with " you have to trade against someone"... "does it really matter?" Also about stop hunting "No, we do not do that, we want you to win." the more "you win, we win."

MM-2 about 5 Calls Since demo open. Just to see how I was liking software.
AND I called them 5+ times. 3 late nite. 2 My account rep. Also used live chat. 10 emails + most of which I requested info.

MM-3 Micro demo. No calls to date - LOL not enough potential money in the bucket... In any case a few emails and notification account would be closed on nov 1 due to nFA new rules.

Forgot....

MM-4 - Did not like software at all and charting was hard to use and figure out. Uninstalled, and Never heard anything from them EVER. Nothing. Not even a call to follow up or an email --- a bit odd.

MM-5 Yet to download Trader Plat. but they are a large US bank and used to have Insta- Web demo which was VERY cool.

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