Who traded live with more than 5 lots during CHF news?

It seems that live traders had trouble exiting positions even on non-CHF pairs. Could any live traders on here that trade larger volume talk a bit about their experiences trading on January 15 around the time of the CHF news?

Were you able to exit at reasonable prices? with which broker?

I was trading with MB Trading at like 5:15 am est but only with up to 1 full lot. Did not touch chf pairs the spreads were like 145 at that time. Had no troubles with what I was doing.. I can't imagine it would have mattered if I threw on a few more lots.

This guy traded EUR/USD around this time and lost more than -2000 pips total!!! got slipped big time!

https://twitter.com/AndrewButton4

I wonder why he was buying eur/usd. That is too bad.

Next 30 days prediction for EURUSD -- - ? Buy or Sell ?

Prachait

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hey fxterrapin..... i opened and closed several hundred orders during the day, quite possibly 300, using fxcm and etradefx with no troubles at all..... they were all eur pairs except no chf pairs of any kind.....

the etrade, standard account, sizes from 1 to possibly 15 lots...... the fxcm , my public explorer, is still a standard account but trade sizes are much smaller because the account is much smaller.....

the spread was a bit high but was to be expected.....h

Actually if you look at his twitter feed he lost a total of 8800 pips...

I was short on E/U for about 20 lots when the news came in, of course the spreads went a little up but nothing to worry about in my case. I had a little freeze on the platform in the first couple of minutes but it didn't last too long so I was able to get out of the trade with a nice profit.
Too bad for the guy that was buying E/U. Just like teddy I wonder why he was buying.

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correction..... yesterday, there were a few usdchf buys till new all buys were blocked yesterday afternoon and a few usdjpy buys.....

but only a few..... all trades went thru in an usual manner for me......h