Anyone Trading Forex With Tradestation 8.3?

IB sounds good as well...What trading platform do they provide? For some reason there website is not very user friendly.

IB is one of the best brokers out there in my opinion, but their platform and their website come right out from the middle-age.

I cannot understand why they dont spend some money in providing a decent trading platform. It's so freaking cumbersome!

I like the platform, order management etc. esp with the activation rules etc. Saves sitting on top of things etc.................

however here is the but. A number of times now I have lost connection to the 'trade server' etc. It is not an internet fault, and I am becoming paranoid, so looking for an alternative for execution. Only need 10 round trips on TS to clear the platform fee so might be the way to go.

It seems I've read nothing but superlatives about TS in S&C magazine for years! So I've been intrigued by their FX upgrade. Also, I like the idea of having easy access to pretty-much all financial instruments in one program. As you might have guessed, I have a few questions:

Outside of FX, is TS as good as I'm lead to believe?

Spreads aside, how is TS for trading FX (e.g. user interface, speed, reliability, features, etc.)?

One can buy currency derivatives with TS, right? Are currency options integrated well into the FX portion of the TS software?

If almost exclusively used for FX, would you recommend TS?

Lastly, now that it's been out for a little while, I'd like to reiterate the original question: are there many FX traders moving over to TS 8.3?

Thanks to all who contribute to Forex Factory. Great site!
-Tim

sign up for a demo and all your question's will be answer.

Firstly I have been trading with TS for 4 years now and I have had no problems with them.

I took a long on the AUDNZD at the Australian open on the 15th October 2012 and there was an CPI (Red) announcement.

I was taken out of the trade. I was slightly in profit by about 20 pips and I was slipped nearly 34 pips from my stop (54 pips in total). I could not see this on either the Bid/Ask charts.

I spoke to the trade desk and they explained that this can happen with such news and it would not necessarily be charted as they filter/smooth the charts.

This has happened to me a number of times with TS now. Is this part of the pitfalls of trading a cross pair / derived pair? Is this level of spread widening reasonable? I expect spreads to widen in times of volatility, but the range and slippage seem excessive to me?

Has anyone had the same experience with TS especially since they have recently changed broker to Currenex.

Many thanks