Be careful with Oanda +2 Server (Hedging)

Guys, becareful with this new server with hedging functionality enable. It's terrible.

Eg, I opened a price level of EU at 1.1162 with 5 lots short, it spilt my trades at 1.1162 and 1.1146, filling me 16 pips below it. Today I opened a trade again at fxtrade, end up it open 1000 unit in my metatrader +2 server. It's irritating to see 18 pips profit gone when they filled your order below market price when price moving downwards, and its irritating to lose profit when your lot size end up 1000 units when you are winning.

And when reporting the issue, its also very troublesome, 1 simple trade opened, it generated 3 tickets for long, another 3 tickets for change orders in fxtrade server (when I didn't change any orders), while it also generate tickets for -5 server and +2 server. It make reporting extremely troublesome. 1 simple round number fixed size trade end up in more than 15 tickets. And it's hard to take screenshot, because the price level that it filled ghostly change to other level and ticket price level filled also changed after you login to check again.

Never had a problem before, but since this new server starts, disappoint me. I just chat with the agent, it mentioned this kind of issue should happen on all servers, if it is so, look like Oanda no longer have the same stability as before.

Does oanda enable hedging???

Rosalia, take a look at this http://www.oanda.com/corp/forex-lab-notes/tags/hedging/, not sure if your area is supported. You can check with them on their live chat support.

Hi kinspk,


What you experienced sounds very unpleasant and is not at all how this functionality was designed to behave. From your comment, it sounds like this may have been the result a trade being entered from an OANDA platform other than the GMT+2 MT4 server.

Please note that OANDA MT4 Hedging Compatibility accounts are only intended to be traded on the MT4 GMT+2 server. In addition, the account information displayed on other OANDA platforms will display account information based on one's net position while the MT4 GMT+2 server will demonstrate multiple hedged positions.

These details are highlighted in an agreement displayed prior to the creation of one's first MT4 Hedging Compatibility account. However, more details about this product can also be found on this page. For instance, the FAQ at the bottom of the page includes the following item:

What happens if I trade on a different OANDA platform with my MT4 Hedging Compatibility enabled account?

Most OANDA platforms will not allow you to open new trades or close existing positions.

If you do manage to make a trade through another platform, it could cause significant issues with your account. For instance, MT4 may interpret account closures as new positions, and pending orders, stop losses, take profits, or trailing stops may be lost.

Unfortunately, while we made a best effort to restrict trading on those accounts, we couldn't close every path of trading on these accounts. For instance, there can be a bit of a delay between when hedging is enabled on existing accounts and when other platforms recognize that the account is a Hedging Compatibility account.

Alex Case
Product Manager at OANDA

Well I have had a problem with IG over the past week. Three trades that did not trigger that incidentally would have all been winning trades. I have contacted them about it and still awaiting a reply. Surely if you have a contract to buy or sell at a certain price and the price meets that criteria then the contract should be honoured, regardless of margins?

Yes it's really irritating that when I had to give up 123pips, today my limit order was at 1.1120 but it opened at 1.0997 which is 123 pips, it was just 30,000 units but still money is money...which gave me a pain....

As i said before

they are looking for your money for there liquidity problems . so just trade stocks and physically


all have a nice day