New Account - Broker Recommendations?

Scalping wise:

Dukascopy has server side trailing stops, so if you ever do scalping around major market movements and like using trailers, this can help you avoid slippage.

Pepperstone's Razor account is decent cost wise for scalping.

During non-news times and during the more liquid sessions (NYC / London overlap,) Oanda is really good for scalping on some pairs since their execution model favors your quick scalp over liquidity available. (They are a market maker and will execute up to $10 million per order at whatever price they've quoted you.) I know a lot of short term day-traders and scalpers who use Oanda for this. Just gotta keep in mind the times you don't want to trade (news, and non-liquid inter-session times.)

I also started my way in the world of trading as an equity trader. I used to trade in the US stock markets for several years and today I combine it with FX trading. As an stock trader, you will find out the term of ECN in forex is very different than its meaning in stocks terms. However, you should look for an ECN broker so you will get the fastest executions and objective trading. I recommend ECN brokers such as Alpari or Sunbirdfx.

Alpari UK is well known as being a bucketshop which slipped clients to death. I cant imagine they play fair on their so called "ECN"

sunbird? .. never heard of