Comparing performance between brokers

look im no broker and dont have the money but i want to ask .........
Qu) how do you setup a business that is very similar technology and colocation to FXOpen?
Are they simply lowering spreads or have they a technical edge the others do not?
Perhaps they just combine dukascopy and another to get results, but have favourable settings.
Then again, perhaps being a reseller is easier?
Im just dreaming but i really would like to know - what edge it is that others are NOT willing to meet.

There are other brokers out there that offer what FXOpen offers on some of their accounts; their ECN/STP accounts specifically. Its worth noting that with FXOpen there are Micro and Standard accounts and due to fixed spreads look like there is market making behind them, and they also have the STP and ECN accounts. The Micro and Standard look like nothing special and the spreads although fixed are a little high. The STP and ECN accounts are where the trading performance will become good. With STP there is floating spreads, which can go low and high and their ECN account has raw spread meaning they are rock bottom but you have to pay commission per round traded lot. The execution with the ECN and STP accounts should be immediate as the orders should be passed through to a liquidity provider.

There are a lot of other brokers that offer this level of trading out there but you have to know where to look. I am trading with XGLOBAL Markets, which are an STP broker. The trades are executed immediately always without delay, they do not issue re-quotes and claim they dont have a dealing room. The spreads on major currencies are variable and go below 1 pip sometimes. The account manager tells me that the MT4 server is connected directly to an ECN and all orders are executed on one of many liquidity providers. This is probably what is happening with FXOpen ECN and STP accounts. I prefer these types of brokers 100% but the only thing is that an EA that I have used in the past doesn't work properly with variable spreads.