Broker for hedging and with fair execution? -ECN or MM

I have used Oanda, the US division has FIFO, even worse than EU division, which has no hedge possibility. Mobile softwares buggy: Android can't remove the TP , SL orders!!! iPhone is not visible the order exprity: it will be alway 1 week.

Dukascopy EU: expensiver a lot, than Oanda, but: at weekend time max leverage is 30:1, if at Friday I would like to take a 100:1 position to "correct"my losing trade, than is extremely hard to get out in winning Monday, because they will auto-hedge my positions to have only 1:30 leverage. No FF Trade explorer integration.They report system is so useless as Oanda's one. Need at least the FF's one!

I don't really like MT4, not a fan of it, and I am using macosx as OS. I don't want to buy a windows license to run the broker's platform and switch always the OS, not sure if with Parallels is working, but hard to set up .net based apps with wine. So I do prefer Java based desktop version, and should have a powerfully mobile version ( Dukas is a "standard" for me, it can be improved).

With Oanda never had spikes, only widening spreads at news, but those are normal.
I don't blame any broker for news release time (NFP) filling my orders with even 5 pip far away from my ordered price. I know the technical background for that! If you don't have a decent wired connection and don't stay in the same town WHERE is HOSTED YOUR BROKER TRADE SERVER you shouldn't blame they for this.

From both above broker I have withdraw my money without problems.

I am planning to play with 1k-5k usd ( around 2-3k ) and I have traded a bit more than 1 standard lot at Oanda ( 1:50 ) when I have scalped.

Some ECN require 10k, I don't have it yet.
Some MM are bucket shop with virtual spikes of 170 pip ( not pipets, but pips! or Aplari or FXDD has this one 2-3 year ago)
Some MM spamming my phone like crazy to trade in they platform...

The question is where to go now?

About this virtual spikes I am afraid:

powered by FXPro...

while at others doesn't exist:

ThinkForex

Mt4 isn't macosx compatible. If the broker doesn't care about if I can use they soft or not, than ehy should I care about they?

Until now the winner is: Dukascopy eu , with reduced leverage to max 1:30,- 4h charts trading-, but I would use around 1:10 only + hedge. I need to make those reports what I want to see ... and no trade explorer...

fxpro is scam.
stay away fxpro.
I had been experience with fxpro for a long time.

Thanks for the heads up..

Nice banner from FXPro

"NDD, no conflict"- just huge virtual spikes )

I'm not with FXPro, but my broker CityIndex used to have those spikes, and it would only happen at certain times, namely 10pm gmt, at one time couple of years ago I saw a spike over 200pips where it was jumping up and down for couple of minutes, anyway so on few occasions I have scalped those, for massive amount of profit. But I make sure I have couple of charts from other providers to make sure those are glitches.

Anyway they shouldn't have those spikes but I think lot of them do have those occasionally.

I have heard somewhere that you should be able to complain and get your money back if those spikes happen but I wouldn't count on it. Only way to deal with those is money management.

Hello.matheszabi.
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...59#post6272959

I think IC Markets and Armada Markets are the best ECN brokers. The best market maker brokers in my opinion are Alpari and FxPro. FxPro also have an ECN but its not MT4.

Yes i have to agree. They seem to be doing everythign right and have been around since the start. My vote goes to these guys as well. Expanding like mad as well. Must be doing something right?

On another point I cannot understand why any broker would want to play games and/or rip traders off. Yeah i know short term is must be proftiable for them but's a very myopic way of running a business. You can never have word of mouth work for you (it's actually working in reverse)and eventually you'll die off. Every trader eventually goes to the brokers acting with integrity. I know pre 2006 this was very rare but it does seem to be getting better.

i've the same problem.

i've oanda but

no hedging
no high leverage (just 50:1)

i wanna a broker that has good trader platform with this 2 features.

i tried dukascopy but the charts are very basics. icmarkets? mhh i don't know about the slippage. lmax? has only mt4 hedging, but i think not for mac users..