liquidity test

All, can you check your platforms and see if you had a tradeable price this morning on EU at 1.2150 anytime past 7am GMT (start of the Euro session) please?

If so, state broker and time. Will reveal why after a few posts.

By London opening price was oscillating between 2350 and 2450 nothing weird on my feed normal day.

2150 surely?! Did anyone have a tradeable price on the spike down to 2147 this am at around 8am GMT?

2155 on my feed but at the end of NY or 8:00 PM London time 05/18/2010 lowest on my feed

Hey buddy hold on are you talking about London open 3 hours ago or the asian section?

Anyways I have a low of 1.2137 London 1:00 AM

had a low of 1.2145 here at the same time. 1hr after london open.

The low I have during Euro session was that crazy spike low. I have prints of 1.21466 on Collective and 1.2146 on Dukascopy. Why?

7:05 GMT Both Oanda and FxPro show a spike down to 1.21453 respectively to 1.21461.

Dukascopy Live have a low of the BID at 1.2144 on the 0706 GMT 1 min candle, ASK low of 1.21475

Thanks everyone. I recently changed broker - it was going to be IB or Dukas, but FXCM opened up a UK spreadbetting service. This makes it tax free and saves 18% tax (probably more in the future when taxes get hiked). Weighing up the pros (18%) and cons (historical bad rep, odd secrecy about the liquidity providers on their STP) I decided it was the right move.

But having only really starting trading with them in earnest as of this Monday, as I'm starting to find out that's at some cost. Limit order at 1.2150. Low of the day today on FXCM's charts earlier - 1.2155, so my order wasn't filled.

You guys come on and say tradeable prices down to 2146, and now, magically FXCM charts show price having reached this level. My trade is being investigated... I'll let you know.

Run away! I have traded with them for 4 years-stubborn he!Lost a lot of money with them...RUN AWAY!

Any updates? Or are they saying that it was a brief spike and there wasn't liquidity available to fill you and pulling the whole "in fast moving markets we can't guarantee fills" line?

Thanks all, I thought I'd wait until I heard a definitive answer. And the answer is no...
True enough the ask reached down to 147, but there wasn't enough liquidity to fill many orders at this level. Sigh... FXChi, sounds like you've heard this before right?

Now I understand this is possible and also impossible to prove, but I've got my bullshsh*t detector turned up to high and I can't help think of price shading. Given my strategy is always operating at the extremes of price, I get the feeling this may happen more often than it needs to. If their reputation was solid, I'd chalk it up to experience but...

I'm looking at moving to Dukas (it's a toss up between Dukas and IB, but the IB platform I really don't get along with). Anyone got any direct comparative experiences between fxcm active trader and dukas in terms of execution?