Oanda spread during NFP

You are joking right????????? this was NFP's not a black swan event.....

if you have the chance to download their tick data history
you will see that they have a program that increase the spread and keep it wide
even after all the stp brokers have there spread return back to normal

its like they have a slow decay spread filter

So far in all my research of spreads I see absolutely no reason to ever trade with Oanda....none!

How is this a surprise? Go to http://fxtrade.oanda.co.uk/why/spreads/recent select gbp/nzd and enable maximum. Then zoom out.

The spread is really unacceptable. Wonder to know if any broker has a good spread during NFP?

Thanks a lot.

The surprise is they are double what I currently have...down right awful option for me. I am not saying they are a bad broker, I am saying they are not acceptable for my trading.

If a broker has such wide spreads when other brokers were able to provide relatively much thinner speads, its difficult to consider them even for swing trades and position trades as you risk gettting stopped out and wiping out weekly or monthly unrealised gains or your potentially rewarding trade is plucked out even before it can develop. Not encouraging at all as I was actually demo trading them using their API (which is quite good) for my Multicharts Pro Platform.

I'm looking for a new broker, but their spread widening again convinces me not to open with Oanda. They've been doing it for years (not just for NFP either), and I don't understand why they get such rave reviews with this practice. I swing trade so of course I can't just exit trades before every news release. Maybe someone who trades with Oanda through news releases can enlighten how they are not adversely affected by their spread widening?