Boston also developed the infamous virtual dealer plugin. They suck big from every point of view. Everybody should avoid BT like the plague, this company deserves to go bankrupt.
But BT claims they have 60 brokers using their technologies and solutions... so.. there are 60 brokers feeling trouble and no one complaints about them or look for alternative solutions...???
well..i am not here to mud sling boston or anyone but if you feel it is good that by all means proceed and enjoy buddy...i have no losses there...
as for no one complains about them...you should make friends at high levels with some of the brokers that use boston...i have some friends...and that is when you will find out if they are complaining. Brokers don't come on FORUMS and make known to traders that they are having nightmares with their bridges...
all in all...happy trading buddy
well Amarfx...the whole world uses Microsoft...is it the best OS available. Anyone on MAC can tell you that MAC is alot better. It boils down to how Boston did their marketing. If you would understand ...one a broker goes LIVE and has LIVE clients it is almost impossible to change bridges...many are stuck with boston...did you think why out of thousands of brokers that use boston why only 60 are with boston....
well..i am not here to mud sling boston or anyone but if you feel it is good that by all means proceed and enjoy buddy...i have no losses...
from our edges 
will have too big trouble when it comes to changing a bridge, and if boston is too bad, how long those 60 brokers on earth can survive the game of fx brokerage which is pretty too competitive when it comes to similar segment of business, i have some friends who is working with my broker but i don't know, what bridges does my broker uses, because it is not my cup of tea actually to get into their part of business, brokers don't come on forums??? what do you mean, i have seen many brokers have their reps of many forums many times in my browsing life, putting up transparency and to say we used boston bridges are nightmares will make their client to understand boston is a bad company along their stance clear to their customers?
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I don't think for big boys like brokers whom are well financed themselves with good deal of income
I dealt with 3 brokers using the BT bridge because I wanted to test some crappy EA's instead of first porting them...and it was no succes at those brokers using BT...sawyer2558 already explained the problems. The problems were consistent problems.
So ofcourse my question to the VP's I had was, why do you keep using BT if you guys also know its shit?
* One said, we already looking to move away, because we know its crap. (I actually never went live with them)
* The other said, this has been sold on management level so the investment is already done and now we need to stick with it and try to make the best of it.
* And the third said, they just market is to good and the decision has been made by management (keywords were: cheap, saves time, fast and easy).
It only took 2 weeks max for me to stick with them after lots of back and forth talking with BT directly.
Anyway - BT is mostly pitched to LP's and big brokers. Like FXCM, Citifxm DBfx, my guess is they have nothing to loose other then some time and a bit of investment on this. They already have an established name in the bussines and already have their own retail platform. So most of these bigger guys see this as a welcomed additions, but their brokerage bussines doesnt involve BT as part of the case. And ofcourse once an investment is made you want to take out the most of it, even if it doesnt seem to work.
Also its very know that everyone is always round up the number up to their favours in bussines. So I dont believe there are 60 brokers (maybe 60 leads) or they USED to have 60 brokers. There is no way I believe those 60 broker they claim that uses their technology are still around (using BT). I do can see that the banks and bigger brokers still uses BT, because, as I said they dont have much to loose, since BT is an alternative.
But maybe they solved all their issues and the bridge is stable now. That I wouldnt know since I tried the bridge with those brokers last year.
My point actually is: Who cares as long as you can make money from your trading using the tools you use....I couldnt do that at those retail brokers, because first and foremost BT tech sucked.
