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  • #7,241
  • Apr 15, 2011 11:03pm Apr 15, 2011 11:03pm
Quoting SnapCracklePip
50:1......... are you new?
its 50:1 always .....there is no weekend......take a break live a life.........
  • #7,242
  • Edited Apr 17, 2011 4:46am Apr 16, 2011 5:18am | Edited Apr 17, 2011 4:46am
Quoting leeon
what are the margin requirements during the weekend? 100:1, like during the week?

regards
leeon
yep, the market is closed during the weekends all over the world,
thats a good time to cuddeling with your wife
the leverage depends on which broker you chose,
all US brokers have maximum 50:1 all the time because of regulation,
if you wan't more leverage you can chose a broker that is not regulated in the US.
but higher leverage is not advisable if you are a beginner,
50:1 should be good for you.


Time Zone New York GMT

Tokyo Open 7:00 pm 0:00

Tokyo Close 4:00 am 9:00

London Open 3:00 am 8:00

London Close 12:00 pm 17:00

New York Open 8:00 am 13:00

New York Close 5:00 pm 22:00
Bulls are stupid Animals!especially when Im short!
  • #7,243
  • Edited 2:45pm Apr 17, 2011 9:46am | Edited 2:45pm
Quoting roughtrader
yep, the market is closed during the weekends all over the world,
thats a good time to cuddeling with your wife
the leverage depends on which broker you chose,
all US brokers have maximum 50:1 all the time because of regulation,
if you wan't more leverage you can chose a broker that is not regulated in the US.
but higher leverage is not advisable if you are a beginner,
50:1 should be good for you.


Time Zone New York GMT

Tokyo Open 7:00 pm 0:00

Tokyo Close 4:00 am 9:00

London Open 3:00 am 8:00

London Close 12:00 pm 17:00

New York...
The markets don't close just the retail feeds do. Here is a link where you can see the different prices through the weekend. http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Am...rom=EUR&To=USD

That is why you always hear newbies talking about trading the gap on the open for the week. There is no gap, just the difference in price from where their retail broker closed it on friday and where it is actually at when they turn their feed back on for the start of the new week. The price has been moving all weekend through the imaginary gap.
  • #7,244
  • Apr 18, 2011 8:20am Apr 18, 2011 8:20am
One thing I must say about MB Trading. I keep Oanda as a backup/to use their charts while I trade, and quite frequently on days like this with huge moves I just see the Oanda charts disappear and the platform disconnects. It's nice to have MBT so I don't have to worry about the broker/market maker deciding to switch off because they're losing or can't keep up, or whatever "technical difficulty" they come up with.
  • #7,245
  • Apr 18, 2011 10:22am Apr 18, 2011 10:22am
I compared between MBT VS. DUKAS before I decided to join a Forex. I found from the forum, Dukas did lots of slippage. I decided to join with MBT on January 2011, but last night MBT did the same high slippage too ( my stop loss was 1.43376 but it close at 1.43500). I contacted the MBT CS, they said contact the Help desk office. I contacted Help Desk office, they said that they couldn't do anything about that. At the last conversation the help desk staff said that I could call them when this problem happen again in the future. The question is, why he couldn't fix the problem and asked me to call him if it happen again. Do you think the answer is same: "I can't fix it" if the problem happen again. Do you think I should try Dukas to see how bad they handle this problem compared to MBT?
  • #7,246
  • Apr 18, 2011 2:37pm Apr 18, 2011 2:37pm
EDIT: Never mind, the "extended rollover" is over now.
  • #7,247
  • Apr 18, 2011 8:19pm Apr 18, 2011 8:19pm
Quoting saint1618
I compared between MBT VS. DUKAS before I decided to join a Forex. I found from the forum, Dukas did lots of slippage. I decided to join with MBT on January 2011, but last night MBT did the same high slippage too ( my stop loss was 1.43376 but it close at 1.43500). I contacted the MBT CS, they said contact the Help desk office. I contacted Help Desk office, they said that they couldn't do anything about that. At the last conversation the help desk staff said that I could call them when this problem happen again in the future. The question is, why...
On a news spike like that, there's no such thing as a good fill. It's part of trading.
  • #7,248
  • Apr 19, 2011 2:56am Apr 19, 2011 2:56am
Justin,

I'm a long time MBT user but I'm getting to the point where frustration is starting to boil over. Could you or someone at you office please explain these incessant error messages I receive.

Ninja says it you guys and you guys say it's Ninja???

I tend to think it's MBT because I never get these with Mirus, even though that's futures only.

Here's a sample, but they do vary in type.
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  • #7,249
  • Apr 19, 2011 3:34am Apr 19, 2011 3:34am
Quoting saint1618
I compared between MBT VS. DUKAS before I decided to join a Forex. I found from the forum, Dukas did lots of slippage. I decided to join with MBT on January 2011, but last night MBT did the same high slippage too ( my stop loss was 1.43376 but it close at 1.43500). I contacted the MBT CS, they said contact the Help desk office. I contacted Help Desk office, they said that they couldn't do anything about that. At the last conversation the help desk staff said that I could call them when this problem happen again in the future. The question is, why...
A broker can't eliminate all slippage. I would try to get at the root of the problem. Was it latency? Sometimes there is slippage due to the fact that you want to buy or sell and nobody wants to take the other side, or they do, but at a better price.
  • #7,250
  • Apr 19, 2011 8:32am Apr 19, 2011 8:32am
Quoting angus
Justin,

I'm a long time MBT user but I'm getting to the point where frustration is starting to boil over. Could you or someone at you office please explain these incessant error messages I receive.

Ninja says it you guys and you guys say it's Ninja???

I tend to think it's MBT because I never get these with Mirus, even though that's futures only.

Here's a sample, but they do vary in type.
I also cant figure it out.

Started out with NT 6.5 with Gain Feed and when Gain dont offer free access I upgrade to NT 7.

Initially the earlier version of 7 is stable enough but recent release I receive those same error.
  • #7,251
  • Apr 19, 2011 9:00am Apr 19, 2011 9:00am
just grumbling about stp not executing vs ecn book. Don't try to be too exact with your limit orders because the closer you are to exact, the less likely you will get filled as price moves thru and past your order and quickly retraces.
  • #7,252
  • Apr 19, 2011 10:44am Apr 19, 2011 10:44am
Quoting angus
Justin,

I'm a long time MBT user but I'm getting to the point where frustration is starting to boil over. Could you or someone at you office please explain these incessant error messages I receive.

Ninja says it you guys and you guys say it's Ninja???

I tend to think it's MBT because I never get these with Mirus, even though that's futures only.

Here's a sample, but they do vary in type.
These are error messages that you are getting inside Ninja Trader, correct? Because I haven’t heard of these inside Desktop Pro.
  • #7,253
  • Apr 19, 2011 12:05pm Apr 19, 2011 12:05pm
Quoting jleblang
These are error messages that you are getting inside Ninja Trader, correct? Because I haven’t heard of these inside Desktop Pro.
Yes, that's correct.
  • #7,254
  • Apr 19, 2011 12:06pm Apr 19, 2011 12:06pm
why don't you traders use DESKTOP PRO, much more stable platform
  • #7,255
  • Apr 19, 2011 12:11pm Apr 19, 2011 12:11pm
Quoting PoundTrader
why don't you traders use DESKTOP PRO, much more stable platform
Because the charting and chart trading is klunky, and anyway stability is not the issue.
  • #7,256
  • Apr 19, 2011 12:13pm Apr 19, 2011 12:13pm
Quoting angus
Because the charting and chart trading is klunky, and anyway stability is not the issue.
whats the issue? NT
  • #7,257
  • Apr 19, 2011 5:34pm Apr 19, 2011 5:34pm
Hi Justin/All,

Is it just me, or is there a difference between the marketwatch time and the orderopen time of each trade in MT4. When I make any trade, the order open time that appears is different to the market watch time by an hour????

This is a problem as I have an EA that deletes pending trades after 15 minutes and now it deletes as soon as it opens, because it thinks the order is an hour old the moment I open it. The order close times is correct, so if you make a trade and close it instantly, there is a 1 hour difference between the open and close times.

I noticed this a couple of weeks back on the demo platform but thought nothing of it as I know the demo platform is pretty much an experiment but now its doing it on the live platform. Has there been a server update in the last couple of days?
  • #7,258
  • Apr 20, 2011 3:59am Apr 20, 2011 3:59am
Hi everyone,

Anyone using Multicharts DT with MBT. I would appreciate if some of you can share your experience using it.
  • #7,259
  • Apr 20, 2011 5:01am Apr 20, 2011 5:01am
Quoting Sujith
Hi everyone,

Anyone using Multicharts DT with MBT. I would appreciate if some of you can share your experience using it.
Check this out:

http://www.bigmiketrading.com/platfo...lticharts.html

and there are also other threads on that forum.
  • #7,260
  • Apr 20, 2011 5:34am Apr 20, 2011 5:34am
Quoting angus
Check this out:

http://www.bigmiketrading.com/platfo...lticharts.html

and there are also other threads on that forum.
Thanks Angus.
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