OANDA Discussion

bullcrap it is not 1730 yet and im locked out of my platform. such crap! im bouncing of a fib level and would like to tp! fxTrade and OANDA MT4 Maintenance for September 6, 2013
fxTrade and OANDA MT4 Maintenance: Friday - 17:30 - 21:30 EDT

OANDA will be performing maintenance on the fxTrade and OANDA MT4 servers the evening of Friday, September 6, 2013 - 17:30 until 21:30 EDT. During this time fxTrade and OANDA MT4 will not be accessible. There is always the possibility that scheduled testing may take longer than originally anticipated, so please note that the above times may vary.

fxTrade and OANDA MT4 Practice Maintenance: Friday - 17:00 - 23:59 EDT

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN EXTENDED MAINTENANCE.

OANDA will be performing maintenance on the fxTrade and OANDA MT4 Practice servers the evening of Friday, September 6, 2013 - 17:00 until 23:59 EDT. During this time fxTrade and OANDA MT4 Practice will not be accessible. There is always the possibility that scheduled testing may take longer than originally anticipated, so please note that the above times may vary.

right now oanda's live trade is somehow down but not their demo side and i was inside a live trade about to hit my tp when it occcured wtf is this?

It has been back up for 5 minutes, but still it was 10-15 minutes down. The demo is on another server, so that might have been it.
A cleaning lady pulled out the wrong plug to plug in her vacuumcleaner

Hi fxrustyspoon,

Please note that we are having issues with the fxTrade platform and are not related to the scheduled maintenance windows. We are working diligently to resolve things as soon as possible. We will provide an update here when more information becomes available.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Thanks,
The OANDA Team

so guys if let's say your TP gets hit even though you cannot log in does this mean you hit your tp?

Comeon simple question and seems like even the help staff cannot answer it.

Oh yes fuck oanda it was up 1.37 and i could not log in and that was my tp and now when you can log in it's like what fallen like 10 pips. I think i got my trade stolen fuck you oanda.

i meant 1.317 earlier was my tp so here is a question. When you cannot log into you live trading account cos of some issue does it affect the price and more importantly does it affect your trades. This is the most important question of all cos you don't want anyone manipulating the price.

The dumb help staff was telling me no we don't change our customers trades. WTF duh no that's not the question.

Anyone should be able to figure out what the top concerns are.

So oanda gets their price from some live feed provider. When customers could not log into their accounts earlier did they also stop receiving updates from the price feeder? You see where i am going now?

So let's say price shoots up to 1.317 and abit higher. There is some sort of system error. Well fuck me customers cannot log in the tp isn't hit at all cos the system receiving the price feed stops working too so obviously customers TPs aren't hit. Then 10-20 minutes or so later well system is back online price from the feed shows it going downwards.

So again i reiterate. Was the earlier error only about customers not being able to log in? Did it affect the price feed? Does anyone know if brokers can manipulate the system like this?

ty for the prompt reply.

We can confirm that the earlier issue (taking place between 12:24:23 - 12:58:00 EDT) has been fully resolved. The fxTrade platform should be running as normal now.

Just saw the useless Android platform has been improved to almost usefully, but now at least you have improved the charts. For charts: finally somebody did an effort to make it usefully.

When will be allowed to modify a Take profit huh, does it takes another 2 years for your crapy product managers?

Finally you have implemented a web trading platform too: FxTradeNow. for the orders the TP could be modified, didn't tested the open trade. Here is a grats or a finally ? - well is a good sign as once you will weak up.

Maybe in next 5 or 10 year plan you have an improved report too ? - and move from python technology to some more modern with more features and give users what they want instead of transactions log?

Can anyone explain the price differences of German Bund between Oanda, Futures, and FXCM on 6th Sept 2013?
Here are the snapshots of the 15 Minute Charts:
First chart is futures chart from SIERRA CHART (Market closed for 10 hours during the gap)
Second chart is FXCM (Market did not close when futures chart did. And price gapped down)
Third chart is OANDA (Market closed for 10 hours just like futures, but price did not gap)

I would suppose Oanda did not roll into the December contract. Last trading day for the September contact was last friday, the other 2 did probably toll forward 1 day earlier.

Whats up with the 30 pip spreads during news events now? I dont ever recall it being that high this consistently.

This is the email reply i got:

It didn't used to be this high - which is why so many professional traders left Oanda.
Funnily I saw some posts today on other forums about Oanda having exceptionally wide spreads during no-news periods.

A few minutes ago I have realised I have forgot the investor password for the MT4 platform. I have logged in Oanda site and asked Live help. They told me to go to MT4 platform in menu here->there and I told man: I am using Macosx, I don't have MT4 I don't want to install and exercise downloading and hacking packages to get it work under MT4 again, give me a password. No they don't give Now Or I need to search my old laptop install MT4 and go in menu somewhere and set if because they don't want...

Here I can't add FXTrade / FXpractice accounts and I have like 5, because they were implicated in pamm account : I have added myself. I can't even delete those, not even for demo.

Third problem of mine with they:
Android platform version 3.2.1 right now. Now sure how many years already has Android platform, but still can't modify the TP and SL for an opened position!

I think they product manager has no other responsibility just link asses, for sure he forgot to check the products.

If Oanda UK is in EU why can't offer hedge position?!

As retail broker is ok, but as software architecture... omg.... take sedatives!

Today I had 3 short position at Eur/Usd.One had a major profit, other 2 small loss, few times at BE.

I wanted to close the big profit and reduce the risk. ( Scale out) at MT4 got a strange error message: "out of quotes" or something like that. Didn't know what the hell is maybe I am lagging with mobile, but still should close the position with 2-3 pip difference...Restarted phone, restarted 3G connection still that error. I did a Google search. Man, that is a strange error message, because they have FIFO. -even if my account ( at least the live one) was moved to UK.

Some platforms provides a human message, like ""Prohibited by FIFO rule"" but Oanda... I have stopped trading even with they Demo, I run out of sedatives

Or Dukascopy with 1:30 leverage for weekend, or Alpari UK, but finished with Oanda for a while.

Look at how oanda's prices differ from fxpro's


http://img7.uploadhouse.com/fileuplo...74b48082aa.jpg

don't try to scalp AUD or NZD over news events..

based on the explanation below, i don't see why it should make a difference what day OANDA executes the Calendar. If they're quoting a seamless derivative cash price that would mean when they roll to the next date, their cash price should not change dramatically. The only thing that should change is the interest rate or financing charges . r ?? Does FXCM use a similar methodology to derive CFD or are they DMA?? These things are horribly confusing , I wish everyone would just use DMA...