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  • #4,241
  • Nov 4, 2009 11:27am Nov 4, 2009 11:27am
Quoting TheFisherman
During the news (Fed rate) MT4 platform frozen for more than 4 minutes. Nice Going "for scalpers" MB trading!
No freezes here, I had six trades go off inside of the first 5 minutes after the announcement and quotes were solid all the way through. Charts hiccuped a bit, but quotes and fills were fine.
  • #4,242
  • Nov 4, 2009 11:29am Nov 4, 2009 11:29am
Quoting TheFisherman
During the news (Fed rate) MT4 platform frozen for more than 4 minutes. Nice Going "for scalpers" MB trading!

All good here, my Martingale worked perfectly.
  • #4,243
  • Nov 4, 2009 12:21pm Nov 4, 2009 12:21pm
Hi Justin
I have sent you pm ,My account just got fund but I have something not sure about it!! Looking forward to your reply.
  • #4,244
  • Edited 6:07pm Nov 4, 2009 3:57pm | Edited 6:07pm
Hi Justin,

Are you aware of what caused the broad change in regards to market depth liquidity becoming oddly uniform in a controlled, laddered sense? Here's what the books look like recently, notice the unusually laddered liquidity:

(1M, 2M, 3M, perfectly uniform on both the bid and ask side)

http://i37.tinypic.com/2evahwm.png

This is the same situation over at FXCM Active Trader (but not IB). This type of laddered liquidity uniformity is awfully strange, b/c it's not indicative of normal ECN behavior of multiple independent liquidity providers, and has never been present at MBT until very recently. Do you have any idea what's behind it?

It's obviously a detriment to anyone trading >1M in size, as slippage is now virtually guaranteed on non-limit orders. Anyone trading north of 1M is going to have to take this activity into account for projected slippage/fill ranges.

I'm not suggesting MBT had any role to play in this, obviously you guys are independent of your LPs. It's just awfully peculiar. Perhaps some type of new auto-spreading on an LP-level, where they're willing to out-compete each other by 1/10th of a pip, but only at 1M risk?

I thought FXCM might be playing games when I first saw this type of book activity on their ActiveTrader platform, but now that it's mimicked at MBT, I'm guessing it's the result of some broader change in LP behavior (at least with regard to retail ECN portals). Your thoughts?
  • #4,245
  • Nov 6, 2009 7:23am Nov 6, 2009 7:23am
Quoting egkid
Hi Justin
I have sent you pm ,My account just got fund but I have something not sure about it!! Looking forward to your reply.
1-I have got an answer yesterday from support
2-Today"frieday" Live Acc work very good ,Fast exection and nice spreads "even at news time"
3-I feel much better with mb than other broker i used
So far must say MBtradingPlease keep going to the best

Thanks
  • #4,246
  • Edited 3:23pm Nov 8, 2009 3:10pm | Edited 3:23pm
Anyone else noticing the MBT MT4 demo environment doesn't start showing price movement on Sunday afternoons an hour or so after the other broker's charts are moving?

My live MBT MT4 account charts start moving right on time at 2pm PST (5pm EST), but it is now an hour and few minutes later and the demo candles are still showing nothing after November 6th and the market watch time is still forzen at 16:59:56 last Friday.

(edit) It just started price movement at 1812 market watch time.
  • #4,247
  • Nov 10, 2009 12:33am Nov 10, 2009 12:33am
Quoting egkid
1-I have got an answer yesterday from support
2-Today"frieday" Live Acc work very good ,Fast exection and nice spreads "even at news time"
3-I feel much better with mb than other broker i used
So far must say MBtradingPlease keep going to the best

Thanks
I have also trading at NFP time with no problems at all.

They are really fast!!

  • #4,248
  • Nov 13, 2009 1:27pm Nov 13, 2009 1:27pm
Quoting jleblang
Pavikogm,

Keep in mind that most “scalpers” are buying and selling manually at the market, or at best buying and immediately putting in a limit. If you buy and have just a T/P in our Meta, it is treated as a specific limit order price and you can’t get filled worse. If you place both a T/P and a S/L, we cannot send both orders to the ECN as in theory both could be executed, so the Meta server holds both until the price hits and then fires a market order.
Hey Justin
Have not see you for while! Hope all fine
  • #4,249
  • Nov 14, 2009 2:34am Nov 14, 2009 2:34am
Justin,


Any timeline of when it will be possible to open accounts in GBP/EUR?

Thanks
  • #4,250
  • Nov 16, 2009 11:43am Nov 16, 2009 11:43am
Hey Guys - I hope everyone is doing well.

For those that might have questions about the new NFA regulations regarding leverage, here is a page we recently put up.

http://www.mbtrading.com/NFAleverage.aspx

If you have any questions, let me know.
  • #4,251
  • Nov 16, 2009 1:00pm Nov 16, 2009 1:00pm
I am thinking about getting a netbook (those smaller, less expensive notebook computers that they have nowadays) as a backup computer just in case.

Has anyone ever tried using a trading platform on a netbook (most use Intel processors of about 1.6 GHz)?

I only need to make sure that they can run Navigator efficiently enough for live trading.
  • #4,252
  • Nov 18, 2009 2:47pm Nov 18, 2009 2:47pm
Dear ForexFactory Members,

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We are pleased to announce that we have created a strategic partnership with PhotonVPS, a leader in Windows VPS hosting that utilizes the latest hardware and most comprehensive network possible. Creating multiple packages to choose from, the VPS can be used for MetaTrader 4 Client hosting for Expert Advisors or as a source for complete Black Box hosting for your own trading software. Either solution can be connected to MB Trading for FOREX, Stocks, Futures and Options.

To help you get started, we will give everyone the first 90 days free to get your software situated and tested with no setup fee. Thereafter, to continue using the VPS for free, we have set a very low minimum trade requirement for any asset class that we offer that is based on a month to month basis.

To learn more and take your trading to the next level and visit: MBT VPS

If you have any questions, please let me know.
  • #4,253
  • Nov 18, 2009 3:00pm Nov 18, 2009 3:00pm
justin: whats the network latency roundabouts to the MB trading servers from this VPS location?
  • #4,254
  • Nov 18, 2009 3:05pm Nov 18, 2009 3:05pm
Quoting shrike
justin: whats the network latency roundabouts to the MB trading servers from this VPS location?
We are able to sustain a constant low latency of 10 milliseconds per execution between our location and the MB Trading trade servers.
  • #4,255
  • Nov 18, 2009 10:31pm Nov 18, 2009 10:31pm
Hello Justin,
What's about the MBT Nav Windows7 comptability ?
Have a nice day.
  • #4,256
  • Nov 19, 2009 4:54am Nov 19, 2009 4:54am
Hi Justin

How is it possible to obtain the history data of currency pairs other then

EURUSD
GBPUSD
CADUSD

?

these seem to be the only ones on the navigator servers. Is there any way to get them form MBT?

also, it would be nice if this data be added to the MT4 platform servers for easy backtesting of EA's.

Thanks
Joe
  • #4,257
  • Nov 19, 2009 10:27am Nov 19, 2009 10:27am
Quoting tomlee
Hello Justin,
What's about the MBT Nav Windows7 comptability ?
Have a nice day.
tomlee,

We have multiple people in our office and clients now using W7 with the Navigator without any issues.
  • #4,258
  • Nov 21, 2009 1:20pm Nov 21, 2009 1:20pm
Quoting jleblang
tomlee,

We have multiple people in our office and clients now using W7 with the Navigator without any issues.
Hello Justin
Not seeing you much in last days,Hope all fine.
So far so good with live trading

I want to ask you something hope to be add with MB
I have Account with others brokers and they send email like" News- market view-Notes ....." Mb better than this brokers so i wish MB offer this to their customers

Thanks
Egkid
  • #4,259
  • Nov 21, 2009 8:18pm Nov 21, 2009 8:18pm
Hi justin

I have an account with mb though I havent funded it yet. Will it expire if I dont fund it for sometime?

Regards
We are the TREND. Resistance is futile...
  • #4,260
  • Nov 21, 2009 9:36pm Nov 21, 2009 9:36pm
Quoting tomlee
Hello Justin,
What's about the MBT Nav Windows7 comptability ?
Have a nice day.
Windows 7 is Vista Service Pack 3 (it should be free) - Anything that works in Vista will work with it. (thats why you can upgrade Vista-->>Win 7 but have to do a full reinstall if comng from XP)
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