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  • #5,281
  • May 19, 2010 12:05pm May 19, 2010 12:05pm
Quoting IndyTrader
What I don't understand is...unless you have some old school EAs, what is the point of using MetaTrader versus Desktop, which is clearly the superior platform out there. The order types that are built in should be a dream for any trader, and you can program systems straight to it. I have used MT4 in the past and I have an MB account for it (and one for Desktop/Nav). I don't experience many problems in MT4, but Desktop/Nav is clearly the better platform for traders.

As for spreads, I haven't seen anything wide at all.
There is no normal charting in Navigator and the Pro is a total crap. I agree that by order types its superior to MT4
  • #5,282
  • May 19, 2010 12:23pm May 19, 2010 12:23pm
@jleblang
Yes, that's why I've wrote since 2 days. The spreads are the only reasons I'm still with MBT. I hope they return to normal as soon as possible. With normal condtion they are superb! But today EURUSD mostly 2 pips today, higher that almost all brokers

@fiberangel
Maybe not normal conditiona, but spreads in MBT have widened more than with other brokers - from the best to "almost" the worst...
  • #5,283
  • May 19, 2010 12:30pm May 19, 2010 12:30pm
Quoting pavikogm
@jleblang
Yes, that's why I've wrote since 2 days. The spreads are the only reasons I'm still with MBT. I hope they return to normal as soon as possible. With normal condtion they are superb! But today EURUSD mostly 2 pips today, higher that almost all brokers

@fiberangel
Maybe not normal conditiona, but spreads in MBT have widened more than with other brokers - from the best to "almost" the worst...
Why are you so concerned with spreads? Are they, being less, the part of your profitable strategy?
  • #5,284
  • May 19, 2010 1:33pm May 19, 2010 1:33pm
Quoting Ulterior
There is no normal charting in Navigator and the Pro is a total crap. I agree that by order types its superior to MT4
Ulterior,

I'm not sure what you mean by normal charting? Granted, the Desktop has limited charting, but the Desktop Pro has very sophisticated charting and has received very positive reviews from our clients.

What type of charting were you looking for?

Maybe you should join us for a Free webinar on Desktop Pro or Charting; we have some coming up. Or email me for a recording.
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  • #5,285
  • Edited 2:52pm May 19, 2010 2:02pm | Edited 2:52pm
Quoting pavikogm
@jleblang
Yes, that's why I've wrote since 2 days. The spreads are the only reasons I'm still with MBT. I hope they return to normal as soon as possible. With normal condtion they are superb! But today EURUSD mostly 2 pips today, higher that almost all brokers
pavikogm,

Right now we are running between .5 to .9 average spread; however I do see between 7am -8am PST we did have a wider than normal spread due to volatility in the market and our liquidity providers widening the spread.

Remember, anytime you want you can post bids/offers between the spread to receive potentially better spreads.
  • #5,286
  • May 19, 2010 2:06pm May 19, 2010 2:06pm
Quoting jleblang
Ulterior,

I'm not sure what you mean by normal charting? Granted, the Desktop has limited charting, but the Desktop Pro has very sophisticated charting and has received very positive reviews from our clients.

What type of charting were you looking for?

Maybe you should join us for a Free webinar on Desktop Pro or Charting; we have some coming up. Or email me for a recording.
Hi Justin
How r u? Hope all fine.
As u know i use MT4 and i would like to test other platform you offer.
Can i use same password or what shall i do?

Thanks
  • #5,287
  • May 19, 2010 2:46pm May 19, 2010 2:46pm
Quoting jleblang
Ulterior,

I'm not sure what you mean by normal charting? Granted, the Desktop has limited charting, but the Desktop Pro has very sophisticated charting and has received very positive reviews from our clients.

What type of charting were you looking for?

Maybe you should join us for a Free webinar on Desktop Pro or Charting; we have some coming up. Or email me for a recording.
I am not going to use navigator pro until it knows how to draw a Bid and Ask lines and have at least somewhat usefull scripting language.

Simply, now I MUST use mt4, as I am using my own scripts to draw my market view and your software doesnt offer me tools I need
  • #5,288
  • May 19, 2010 2:54pm May 19, 2010 2:54pm
Quoting egkid
Hi Justin
How r u? Hope all fine.
As u know i use MT4 and i would like to test other platform you offer.
Can i use same password or what shall i do?

Thanks
egkid,

Different username and password - visit www.mbtrading.com and click on Get Started.

[email protected] if you have any problems.
  • #5,289
  • May 19, 2010 10:47pm May 19, 2010 10:47pm
Quoting jleblang
Ulterior,

I'm not sure what you mean by normal charting? Granted, the Desktop has limited charting, but the Desktop Pro has very sophisticated charting and has received very positive reviews from our clients.

What type of charting were you looking for?

Maybe you should join us for a Free webinar on Desktop Pro or Charting; we have some coming up. Or email me for a recording.

I don't think so. I have tried your Desktop Pro (since it is more powerful and has Chart) with a demo account for a couple of days. And find that the quote server is always disconnected; the middle lamp on lower right corner is always red. Therefore, there are not real time quotes at all. The FX board also appears blank. However, the other two lamps are green, so I can place and close orders correctly. Do you not provide real time quotes for demo users? In addition I don't think my firewall blocked server, since I don't know your server IP.

Furthermore, a stranage thing happened this morning. The trade server lamp(the left-most lamp) appears red thus disconnected, but I can still place and close orders CORRECTLY!!!

I feel the Desktop is imperfect and not very stable. Other users have had the same nuisance?

Maybe should give a try to the older version of Desktop, which would not disconnect the quotes?

See the screen capture below:

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  • #5,290
  • May 20, 2010 2:29am May 20, 2010 2:29am
Quoting jleblang
goldpoll,

Wire, ACH, or Check.

Best option is probably Wire.
Justin, is it possible to do ACH trasnsfer outside of USA? How to do it? I am living in Europe.
  • #5,291
  • May 20, 2010 3:45am May 20, 2010 3:45am
I use the navigator for order entry and the mt4 demo for charting.

What freaks me out every day since the beginning of May that almost every day the demo freezes up, produces gaps and therefore false indicator analysis.
The navigator gets crapier everyday, too: one day it's the quote server, next day you can't even log into the account.

Sorry, but I have to say that this month is my last with that kind of "quality".
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  • #5,292
  • May 20, 2010 5:14am May 20, 2010 5:14am
Justin,




Is it correct to state that 90 % of the time the same bank is at the best bid/offer ?
  • #5,293
  • May 20, 2010 9:09am May 20, 2010 9:09am
Quoting Freewheelin
I use the navigator for order entry and the mt4 demo for charting.

What freaks me out every day since the beginning of May that almost every day the demo freezes up, produces gaps and therefore false indicator analysis.
The navigator gets crapier everyday, too: one day it's the quote server, next day you can't even log into the account.

Sorry, but I have to say that this month is my last with that kind of "quality".
Bit of advice...

Put $400 in a Live MT4 account. Don't trade it. Just use that for your charts. Demo will go down occasionally and thus have a price gap. They usually plug the gaps over the weekend. But you won't see that in live.

Then you can trade in Nav.
  • #5,294
  • May 20, 2010 9:14am May 20, 2010 9:14am
Justin,

What is going on wth the bid ask prices on Navigator? During NY session the price was 40 pips and greater difference than market price on 3 MT4 charts I'm running from different brokers (including the MBT MT4) and my TradeStation live feed. All the other prices were within an acceptable range of 2 -3 pips. But the Navigator isn't lining up with market price or any charts I'm using. How are we supposed to place orders through Navigator when it's off by such a large margin from? Right now it's off by 23 pips as I'm typing this. It isn't lag either. It's moving in a completely different direction.

GDP/JPY MT4 128.38 Navigator 128.65
  • #5,295
  • May 20, 2010 9:46am May 20, 2010 9:46am
Quoting Cocoflanel
Justin,




Is it correct to state that 90 % of the time the same bank is at the best bid/offer ?
Cocoflanel,

Depends on which pair. What you discover is that different banks have different primary interests and thus keep the tightest spreads on the pairs where they are trying to get hit.
  • #5,296
  • May 20, 2010 11:05am May 20, 2010 11:05am
Quoting Fudomyo
Justin,

What is going on wth the bid ask prices on Navigator? During NY session the price was 40 pips and greater difference than market price on 3 MT4 charts I'm running from different brokers (including the MBT MT4) and my TradeStation live feed. All the other prices were within an acceptable range of 2 -3 pips. But the Navigator isn't lining up with market price or any charts I'm using. How are we supposed to place orders through Navigator when it's off by such a large margin from?...
Justin,

Any idea why this is happening with Navigator and what can be done about it?
Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.
  • #5,297
  • May 20, 2010 11:08am May 20, 2010 11:08am
Justin,

Can you explian what happened this morning and also why nothing went out on the message system?

thanks

Doug
  • #5,298
  • Edited 11:32am May 20, 2010 11:20am | Edited 11:32am
Quoting jleblang
whoa. whoa. whoa. whoa.

"worst spread in forex industry" - that is a wild claim. Maybe not the tightest...but the worst?

Take a look at this screen shot from www.fxintel.com. (MB is the Orange line..FYI)
hey, look at the flat line from IKON-ROYAL, it is always flat line for every pair. Is that true? anyone has experience with them?
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  • #5,299
  • May 20, 2010 1:27pm May 20, 2010 1:27pm
Quoting hastings
hey, look at the flat line from IKON-ROYAL, it is always flat line for every pair. Is that true? anyone has experience with them?
LOL. Doesn't that just mean they have fixed deal desk spreads?
  • #5,300
  • May 20, 2010 2:24pm May 20, 2010 2:24pm
The other day I set up some identical setups with EAs to test brokers and compare the results.

MBT has been the only one which has had this problem.

I have had trades run past the SL and not close.

See the open AudUsd on here
http://www.myfxbook.com/members/BenS...mbt-8040/32004

On this next one it won't allow a SL or TP to be set on AudUsd
http://www.myfxbook.com/members/BenS...mbt-5050/32005

Can any admins of MBT elaborate on why this has happened?
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