How is fxcm with withdrawals ?
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- Edited 8:54pm Dec 29, 2014 5:56pm | Edited 8:54pm
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- #5,686
- Dec 30, 2014 4:55pm Dec 30, 2014 4:55pm
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Hi Jason, I have emailed FXCM support Au yesterday but it is that time of the year when things slow down. I have a new computer solely for performance trading a 3.8ghz intell i5 quad core and 8 gigs of high performance error correcting ram and a nvida gtx 660 qudro and a intel 128gb SSD. I have been infested with invalid price errors that stall a buy or sell trade on the screen I am desperately trying to close this one out at out at BE and how on gods earth can a price be invalid I just do not care if I say "open" I want open if I say "closed" please...
This topic came up previously & I think you need to set the deviation to "50" to allow for a 5 pip slippage so if you have it set @ 2 pips that's really a .2 pip slippage allowed.
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- Dec 30, 2014 4:59pm Dec 30, 2014 4:59pm
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- #5,688
- Dec 30, 2014 6:08pm Dec 30, 2014 6:08pm
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{quote} Jason is gone until Jan. 5th so I'll take a "guess" at your problem. This topic came up previously & I think you need to set the deviation to "50" to allow for a 5 pip slippage so if you have it set @ 2 pips that's really a .2 pip slippage allowed.
I have taken screen shots of it but unless its a cut and paste the order ticket does not show up.
thanks again
- #5,691
- Dec 31, 2014 2:02am Dec 31, 2014 2:02am
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Jason, I'm seeing a massive increase in the average number of ticks per day at FXCM (blue line in picture). For example half a million ticks per day on EUR/JPY. Maybe you could give some info on why this happened? I'm not implying not that is a bad thing, just curious.
hey adal..... it's due to the raw data feeds..... the tick count rose somewhere between 300 and 400% on most pairs and higher than that on a few .....
have been my usual 'quiet' partially due to having conflicting views on the subject...... there is little denying the savings raw data tighter spreads give...... but some of us have now some not-seen-before costs......
the increased tick count has increased data usage considerably..... anyone on a measured data plan such as the wireless cards should see it..... i actually now go over the 10gig limit on one of my cards where before it was never close......
the common response is reduce the number of symbols which does reduce the data..... but what if my ea's or indicators need those symbols data even if i never trade those pairs......
the increased tick count will to some degree make the platform sluggish or less responsive...... there are other more subtle negatives to the reduced spreads..... and some not so subtle, ie off quotes and negative spread......
let me end by saying again, the savings are easy to see..... my estimation is somewhere between 2 and 10% of the account value per month...
.... but i'm not blind to the negatives......h
to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
- #5,693
- Dec 31, 2014 4:30am Dec 31, 2014 4:30am
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{quote} You should see the FXCM level 2 feed. Only 55 instruments, but with 10 levels on each side that's 40 GB per dayMy financial feeds in total are pulling 1600 GB per month.
- #5,695
- Dec 31, 2014 6:26am Dec 31, 2014 6:26am
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{quote} You should see the FXCM level 2 feed. Only 55 instruments, but with 10 levels on each side that's 40 GB per day
hey adal..... yeah, have read your posts in the past and can say for sure we are opposite ends in data requirements...... your monthly totals are running close to 1000 times what my ibfx data ran me which was around 2 gigs per month......
we don't have high speed dsl access around here, only dial up..... and that runs about 26k..... the only wireless cards that work are verizon's..... t1 lines aren't that much but they tie me to a single location....... i like sittin in deer stands to much for that..... so wireless cards it is......
and please don't anyone get me wrong, i'm not complaining about the data...... too much is far better than none at all in this case......h
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to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
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- Dec 31, 2014 11:24am Dec 31, 2014 11:24am
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{quote} //----- hey adal..... yeah, have read your posts in the past and can say for sure we are opposite ends in data requirements...... your monthly totals are running close to 1000 times what my ibfx data ran me which was around 2 gigs per month...... we don't have high speed dsl access around here, only dial up..... and that runs about 26k..... the only wireless cards that work are verizon's..... t1 lines aren't that much but they tie me to a single location....... i like sittin in deer stands to much for that..... so wireless cards it is.........
- #5,699
- Edited Jan 2, 2015 3:08am Jan 1, 2015 8:26pm | Edited Jan 2, 2015 3:08am
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Jason,
Is there any reason why fxcm uk offers different commission structures to ( usd ) & ( eur, gbp ) accounts?
if your account currency is Usd, commission for EURUSD is 8 units , but for Euro& Gbp accounts it's 6 units.
Shouldn't commission be equal for all accounts regardless of their base currency?
Is there any reason why fxcm uk offers different commission structures to ( usd ) & ( eur, gbp ) accounts?
if your account currency is Usd, commission for EURUSD is 8 units , but for Euro& Gbp accounts it's 6 units.
Shouldn't commission be equal for all accounts regardless of their base currency?
- #5,700
- Jan 4, 2015 5:26pm Jan 4, 2015 5:26pm
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{quote} Jason is gone until Jan. 5th so I'll take a "guess" at your problem. This topic came up previously & I think you need to set the deviation to "50" to allow for a 5 pip slippage so if you have it set @ 2 pips that's really a .2 pip slippage allowed.