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  • #281
  • May 14, 2013 2:58am May 14, 2013 2:58am
too bad, the market trend is in favor to my trading style for the last one hour. i would have take up some good pips if otherwise.
  • #282
  • May 14, 2013 3:05am May 14, 2013 3:05am
I was up 20 pips now a full stop out. Thanks guys.
  • #283
  • May 14, 2013 3:08am May 14, 2013 3:08am
Still disconnected - 1hour 27mins so far already, and in a position.
Tracking the Specialists.
  • #284
  • May 14, 2013 3:23am May 14, 2013 3:23am
JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL.........

Server Upgrade Successful
Dear .........
We are pleased to announce that the scheduled migration of clients to our Live MetaTrader 4 severs has been successful. We have changed the time on our MetaTrader 4 servers to GMT plus 3 and our server name to "ICMarkets-Live". Those using mobile devices and demo installations are now able to see the same market leading prices available on our MetaTrader 4 downloadable platform.
What does this server upgrade mean for you?
A reduction in order latency
Increased tick data, ideal for scalping
Daily charts will observe a 5 day week with no Sunday candle.

AND NOW WE GOT THIS OUTAGE.........

WHAT A MOCKERY!
  • #285
  • May 14, 2013 3:28am May 14, 2013 3:28am
also live account are blocked?
Can't u just phone and tell them to close your positions?
  • #286
  • May 14, 2013 3:42am May 14, 2013 3:42am
back online after 2 hours and closed positions for +30 lovely day
Tracking the Specialists.
  • #287
  • May 14, 2013 3:52am May 14, 2013 3:52am
Quoting Marzullo
also live account are blocked? Can't u just phone and tell them to close your positions?
I phoned them "Nothing we can do"
  • #288
  • May 14, 2013 4:32am May 14, 2013 4:32am
Quoting Business_End
{quote} I phoned them "Nothing we can do"
that's appalling.... what???
  • #289
  • May 14, 2013 4:49am May 14, 2013 4:49am
Quoting Marzullo
also live account are blocked? Can't u just phone and tell them to close your positions?
It's the same situation as on April 5th. Even IC Markets themselves have no access to your positions so how can phoning them do anything? It's about time someone notify the reviewers at ForexMagnates.

Quoting onu
Frozen platform on NFP... Good bye ICM!
Quoting manstein
still frozen here 40 minutes later nfp Also yesterday I had terrible execution on all my manual trades. I noticed some odd behavior. for example tried to close a 15 pips winning trade and the platform sort of crashed, then I closed mt4 then opened and closed the trade with no profit. and today...unacceptable I am done with IC
No longer trading forex. Looking for full time job.
  • #290
  • May 14, 2013 6:28am May 14, 2013 6:28am
I'm thinking of joining IC Markets. Is this downtime only on MT4 or has it affected their cTrader platform too?
  • #291
  • May 14, 2013 7:16am May 14, 2013 7:16am
Quoting virtue
I'm thinking of joining IC Markets. Is this downtime only on MT4 or has it affected their cTrader platform too?
I'm also very interested in their ctrader platform's stability, I download their demo yesterday and found many half minute's downtime here and there, any live ctrader user can share their experience?
  • #292
  • May 14, 2013 8:13am May 14, 2013 8:13am
Quoting virtue
I'm thinking of joining IC Markets. Is this downtime only on MT4 or has it affected their cTrader platform too?
I also want to know that.
  • #293
  • Edited 8:02pm May 14, 2013 8:35am | Edited 8:02pm
Quoting virtue
I'm thinking of joining IC Markets. Is this downtime only on MT4 or has it affected their cTrader platform too?
Quoting themchose
{quote} I'm also very interested in their ctrader platform's stability, I download their demo yesterday and found many half minute's downtime here and there, any live ctrader user can share their experience?
cTrader discussion is over at this other thread, where they compare brokers offering the platform including IC Markets.
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...=396775&page=2

My own concerns would be the ability to link cTrader to performance analytic sites like Myfxbook, FXStat, and ForexFactory's own TradeExplorer.
No longer trading forex. Looking for full time job.
  • #294
  • May 14, 2013 11:12am May 14, 2013 11:12am
Has anyone had trouble connecting a trade explorer since they changed servers?

I keep getting: ERROR - CANNOT CONNECT TO BROKER ACCOUNT
  • #295
  • May 14, 2013 6:43pm May 14, 2013 6:43pm
Here's the official response from icmarkets:

RE: Outage experienced on 14-05-2013 between 5:00am and 6:30am ET.



On the morning of 14-05-13 the provider who delivers public internet connectivity from multiple redundant ISP providers into our hardware stack in Equinix NY4 had a failure in their core router. Though redundancies were in place to failover from this specific piece of equipment, there was a problem that prevented the automated bypass of the faulty hardware which resulted in a disruption of external connectivity to our hosted servers.



We take the up-time and quality of services very seriously. Our servers remained “on-line” and operational over the period and Bridges were all "up" during this time, the machines were inaccessible due to the lack of internet connectivity. IC Markets was not the only broker effected by the problem with this major ISP, 48 other brokers with servers located in Equinix NY4 using the same connections also experienced external connection problems.


Moving forward, we will be provisioning 3 separate ISP’s to provide additional layers of redundancy.



We appreciate your cooperation and patience as we work tirelessly to ensure an incident like this does not occur again. This morning’s outage was unacceptable and we are working hard to ensure that clients have connectivity to our servers at all times.



Kind regards,



The IC Markets Team
  • #296
  • May 14, 2013 9:16pm May 14, 2013 9:16pm
Quoting sgL_steve
Here's the official response from icmarkets: RE: Outage experienced on 14-05-2013 between 5:00am and 6:30am ET. On the morning of 14-05-13 the provider who delivers public internet connectivity from multiple redundant ISP providers into our hardware stack in Equinix NY4 had a failure in their core router. Though redundancies were in place to failover from this specific piece of equipment, there was a problem that prevented the automated bypass of the faulty hardware which resulted in a disruption of external connectivity to our hosted servers. We...
Go Markets, Axi Trader and Pepperstone have servers hosted in the Equinix NY4 - I know because I trade with them and have EAs attached to my accounts for server up-time. No issues with other Equinix NY4 brokers ICM - must have just been you lot.
  • #297
  • May 14, 2013 9:54pm May 14, 2013 9:54pm
Quoting Connected
back online after 2 hours and closed positions for +30 lovely day
I didnt have any open trades but I noticed that a different broker I'm trialing (excell) had the same outage.
It appears about 60 brokers were affected
Have a nice day
  • #298
  • May 23, 2013 2:04am May 23, 2013 2:04am
Is IC Markets demo feed 100% same with live account? Ctrader commission $30 per million usd traded is too high comparing with InteractiveBroker!
  • #299
  • May 24, 2013 3:45pm May 24, 2013 3:45pm
Quoting good mind
Is IC Markets demo feed 100% same with live account? Ctrader commission $30 per million usd traded is too high comparing with InteractiveBroker!
1. remember, you can't look at the commission alone. i have watched the spreads over on myfxbook and icmarkets is the lowest. i sorted eurusd spreads from low to high and icmarkets is never out of the top five spots. as for IB, they tend to jump in and out, but their spread is almost 1 pip at some points while icmarkets is generally between 0.2 to 0.4 pips so even with a $6 standard rtl commission, it is still cheaper.

2. usually yes, demo price feed should be the same since they make money solely on commission and not spreads. however, keep in mind that there will be slippage. demo accounts usually don't have slippage as brokers can put you in a slippage advantage for demo accounts, but not in live as how fast the trade is processed in a live account depends.
  • #300
  • Edited 7:18pm May 24, 2013 7:03pm | Edited 7:18pm
Quoting jhehe
{quote} 1. remember, you can't look at the commission alone. i have watched the spreads over on myfxbook and icmarkets is the lowest. i sorted eurusd spreads from low to high and icmarkets is never out of the top five spots. as for IB, they tend to jump in and out, but their spread is almost 1 pip at some points while icmarkets is generally between 0.2 to 0.4 pips so even with a $6 standard rtl commission, it is still cheaper. 2. usually yes, demo price feed should be the same since they make money solely on commission and not spreads. however, keep in mind that there will be slippage. demo accounts usually don't have slippage as brokers can put you in a slippage advantage for demo accounts, but not in live as how fast the trade is processed in a live account depends.
thans your reply.
I am a scalper using InteractiveBroker for years. I can say IB offer the best cross pairs spread,like EUR/CHF almost 0.5pip lower than ICM demo! IB pricing is shown as 0.5/1.0/1.5 not decimalised, but always gets filled with 0.1~0.2pips lower.
As for E/U, after 45% commission rebate(actually charged $10/m), dukascopy maybe better for trading 1M larger size.
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