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  • #1,041
  • Oct 17, 2010 3:31pm Oct 17, 2010 3:31pm
Quoting georgem
I checked with a mac (I use a macbook with iphone for App-Dev)... and yes it seems to work normal...


So far the flickering is limited to Win XP Version.
Okay, Georgem, I've been chatting with livehelp. You must have multiple windows open like me. Close the multiple windows and just have the main window. Should resolve the flickering windows. The agent is going to contact their technical team about it.
Nothing worth having is easy.
  • #1,042
  • Oct 17, 2010 3:34pm Oct 17, 2010 3:34pm
ok Patience, thank you.
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  • #1,043
  • Oct 17, 2010 4:06pm Oct 17, 2010 4:06pm
Quoting Patience
Okay, Georgem, I've been chatting with livehelp. You must have multiple windows open like me. Close the multiple windows and just have the main window. Should resolve the flickering windows. The agent is going to contact their technical team about it.

Thanks for that Patience I was getting a bit irritated. Something changed several months ago, and I can no longer keep both my fxgame and fxtrade accounts active simulteanously, which is annoying since I am running my own live account and a managed-demo account in forward testing. Also my desktop icons only work "some of the time" (the api will load, but the buttons don't work).

Honestly, I love Oanda as a broker, but their interface is really starting to annoy me.
  • #1,044
  • Oct 17, 2010 4:18pm Oct 17, 2010 4:18pm
Running FXtrade on WinXP, many windows open, custom profile, no problems, no flickering.
  • #1,045
  • Oct 17, 2010 4:26pm Oct 17, 2010 4:26pm
Quoting Patience
Yep, I've got flickering windows and I can't change to another account either I've tried both desktop and webpage login.
I had the flickering thing going on today when I logged on and it went away when I closed some of the multi windows I had open in the profile.

Other recurrent problems in last weeks include

- sl's closed at loss when in fact they had been moved into profit
- unable to graphically move sl's and tp's
- unresponsive menu items, such as
------ unable to toggle between tf settings
------ unable to change accounts
------ unresponsive "close all trades" function. This last one I am sure cost me $100's on more than one occasion.

Why does a company with an insane amount of income such as Oanda refuse to come up with a consistently stable piece of trading software?
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,046
  • Oct 17, 2010 4:30pm Oct 17, 2010 4:30pm
Quoting The Fool
I had the flickering thing going on today when I logged on and it went away when I closed some of the multi windows I had open in the profile.

Other recurrent problems in last weeks include

- sl's closed at loss when in fact they had been moved into profit
- unable to graphically move sl's and tp's
- unrepsonsive menu items, such as
------ unable to toggle between tf settings
------ unable to change accounts
------ unresponsive "close all trades" function. This last one I am sure cost me $100's on mkore than one occasion.

Why does a company...
I have had all the problems you have listed. That and having to close one platform out entirely before loading the other is making me annoyed.

I hate to say it, but it looks to me like they keep trying to "improve" their API, and that's when the problems started showing up. For a decade or more they had the simplest, easiest to use interface available from an execution standpoint, now they've update their webpage but the API only works properly when I don't need it to.

I may begin searching for a new broker.
  • #1,047
  • Oct 17, 2010 4:43pm Oct 17, 2010 4:43pm
Quoting The Fool
Why does a company with an insane amount of income such as Oanda refuse to come up with a consistently stable piece of trading software?
I can only imagine there is some internal/external sabotage going on?

Maybe "Olsen" should get "new associates"?
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  • #1,048
  • Oct 17, 2010 4:44pm Oct 17, 2010 4:44pm
OandA is my primary broker. Last week I experienced the temporary outage while in a trade, but the platform quickly came to. Luckily for me I was on the right side of the trade. The feeling of a disconnected platform still sucks!

OandA if you're listening I hope you take action and correct this issue.
  • #1,049
  • Oct 17, 2010 5:42pm Oct 17, 2010 5:42pm
Quoting The Fool
Why does a company with an insane amount of income such as Oanda refuse to come up with a consistently stable piece of trading software?
Hey Fool - how you doing? I know you have problems with Oanda. I've seen a few of your posts. To be honest, I can't complain about them. I generally don't trade big positions so I don't use stoplosses so I can't comment on that aspect. I don't really use their charts and I don't trade around news time with the larger spread. I've either got positions in the market or I wait until the spread goes back to normal. So, for the way I trade, they are great and the best broker that I have traded with. But if you are that unhappy with them, you should change your broker.

What I do like about them is the fast execution, 24/7 interest calculation, never had a requote, easy to transfer money same day, the ability to create sub-accounts (and in different currencies if required), had my T/P slipped in my favour a few times (never happened with any other broker) and last, but not least, their spreads.

Every broker I've ever traded with has platform outages. FXCM (Tradestation) totally wiped out my account one day with a spike in A/U and I couldn't trade at all. I think it took about 10 hours or more to get it corrected. And their platform experiences problems way too often and the execution (compared to Oanda) is slow.

When I initially contacted livehelp this evening, the rep said that there were no technical issues with the platform but I knew that Georgem was having the same problems that I was having. Everything is fine now, even with multiple windows open.

Hey Low - hope everything is going fine (apart from your Oanda problems that is)
Nothing worth having is easy.
  • #1,050
  • Oct 17, 2010 6:46pm Oct 17, 2010 6:46pm
Quoting Patience
Every broker I've ever traded with has platform outages.
That is why my love for oanda outweighs the anger I sometimes have...

FXCM sure has a lot of problems too, one specific problem FXCM has is they talk a lot of trash about other brokers... *g*...

I contacted them some days ago, and asked them some questions so that I can compare their features with oandas features.... I just want to stay informed about the general forexworld.
Once the FXCM person realized that I am an oandanian he immediately started bashing oanda and telling me how evil oanda is, and how stupid I have to be etc...

There is a saying.... if you talk to much trash about others you are probably full of trash yourself...

... and thats why I am staying oandanian!
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  • #1,051
  • Oct 17, 2010 6:58pm Oct 17, 2010 6:58pm
Quoting georgem

There is a saying.... if you talk to much trash about others you are probably full of trash yourself...
Trying to make others look bad in order to make yourself look good is always a bad idea because it probably means you can't stand on your own merits.
  • #1,052
  • Oct 17, 2010 7:01pm Oct 17, 2010 7:01pm
i still have multi-monitoring problems.
  • #1,053
  • Oct 17, 2010 9:53pm Oct 17, 2010 9:53pm
hi does anyone know how to take half profit or probably 1/3 profit using Oanda? Cant find the option to do that.
  • #1,054
  • Oct 17, 2010 10:10pm Oct 17, 2010 10:10pm
Quoting LiuLangZe
hi does anyone know how to take half profit or probably 1/3 profit using Oanda? Cant find the option to do that.
you can enter opposite the direction of your position in any quantity - but be aware, if your position is made up of multiple trades, the effect will show up in the "first in" or "oldest" trade in the position

For instance, if you are long 1 E/U std lot and in profit 100 pips - to take profit on half of this trade you'd enter a market sell for 0.5 std lot. Your original trade would be reduced by half and your equity would be increased by $500
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  • #1,055
  • Oct 18, 2010 2:10am Oct 18, 2010 2:10am
Hi guys. I don't know if this is relevant here but i'll ask. I am an oanda customer and I want to use the oanda's interest calculator. An oanda rep from the live chat told me that if in a currency pair the borrow is bigger than the lend rate then I earn rollover interest either long or short. Is this valid?
  • #1,056
  • Oct 18, 2010 2:31am Oct 18, 2010 2:31am
Gibz, there's a difference between Balance and Trade interest. You earn money on an AUDJPY long trade, but have to pay the same rollover for a short AJ trade. Do you know this calculator?

http://fxtrade.oanda.com/account/interest-calculator

Others: what's happening to Oanda lately? It throws me out during news, never happened before. I get than annoying splash error often as well. Someone told me I can fix the fxtrade shortcut and the splash error goes away, but when Oanda changes something in the software, I have to download / install the icon again. So it's a pain in the butt either way.

Here's how to get rid of the splash error ... right click the red fxtrade icon and go into properties...
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  • #1,057
  • Oct 18, 2010 2:59am Oct 18, 2010 2:59am
I cannot ever remember Oanda advertising. I wonder if they are loosing customers like some of the other brokers?
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  • #1,058
  • Oct 18, 2010 3:34am Oct 18, 2010 3:34am
Quoting The Fool
you can enter opposite the direction of your position in any quantity - but be aware, if your position is made up of multiple trades, the effect will show up in the "first in" or "oldest" trade in the position

For instance, if you are long 1 E/U std lot and in profit 100 pips - to take profit on half of this trade you'd enter a market sell for 0.5 std lot. Your original trade would be reduced by half and your equity would be increased by $500
Oh great, I didnt know this. Thanks The Fool, hope you didnt fool me
  • #1,059
  • Oct 18, 2010 4:09am Oct 18, 2010 4:09am
Quoting LiuLangZe
Oh great, I didnt know this. Thanks The Fool, hope you didnt fool me
Well if I did I didn't mean to!
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,060
  • Oct 18, 2010 5:13am Oct 18, 2010 5:13am
Quoting Slack
I cannot ever remember Oanda advertising. I wonder if they are loosing customers like some of the other brokers?
Oanda advertising? That is new... where did you find this?

But hey its never wrong to look for additional customers, especially in forex business this is vital i would imagine. Maybe buzz marketing is not good enough anymore for oanda...
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