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  • #4,501
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:01am Oct 1, 2015 8:01am
Glad to see the increasingly poor spreads are going to pay for server stability
  • #4,502
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:03am Oct 1, 2015 8:03am
SNB statement in one hour.They wouldn't, would they?
Where price is now, it has been before, and will be again.
  • #4,503
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:07am Oct 1, 2015 8:07am
Technical maintenance during the US session on a thursday?

A good idea! (given you're a broker and you do not want your clients to take their profits home)

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The MT4 bridge is also down since 15 minutes.
  • #4,504
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:10am Oct 1, 2015 8:10am
FXCM passwords hacked this morning and now Oanda performing "maintenance" in the middle of a trading session.

Love how regulated these brokers are
  • #4,505
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:10am Oct 1, 2015 8:10am
Quoting Naddmer
Technical maintenance during the US session on a thursday? A good idea! (given you're a broker and you do not want your clients to take their profits home) {image} The MT4 bridge is also down since 15 minutes.
Yep, not the best time to have computer/server issues...
  • #4,506
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:16am Oct 1, 2015 8:16am
Great timing Oanda.
  • #4,507
  • Edited 8:34am Oct 1, 2015 8:17am | Edited 8:34am
Quoting Nate04
{quote} Yep, not the best time to have computer/server issues...
Just for the records: I also manually tried to close my GER30 short @ 9582 at 9475 but to no avail.

They did not even honor the take profit @ 9480.

Somehow I'm sure they will honor the stoploss in breakeven.

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MT4 logfiles are saved. Screenshots made. Inquiry - I'm coming ...
  • #4,508
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:19am Oct 1, 2015 8:19am
Coming up on 35 minutes since it went down..
  • #4,509
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:36am Oct 1, 2015 8:36am
OANDA will open tomorrow or next week (maybe never), go home guys
As Above, So Below
  • #4,510
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:42am Oct 1, 2015 8:42am
Tricia: Thank you for contacting OANDA. My name is Tricia. How may I help you today?
You: Hello I would like to close my open position but obviously can't due to the platforms being down
Tricia: We had some other clients reporting this issue. We have escalated this to our tech support team for investigation. I apologize for the inconvenience. We are working to fix this issue at a highest priority.
You: You can't close positions for me?
Tricia: Unfortunately we cannot close positions at the moment
You: Incredible.Thank you for your "help"
Tricia: I appreciate your patience.
Where price is now, it has been before, and will be again.
  • #4,511
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:44am Oct 1, 2015 8:44am
im able to execute trades again
  • #4,512
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:48am Oct 1, 2015 8:48am
metatrader and web trader back up

I'm sure Oanda will be rolling out compensation for those effected negativly by the downtime
  • #4,513
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:54am Oct 1, 2015 8:54am
Quoting Jenx
Tricia: Thank you for contacting OANDA. My name is Tricia. How may I help you today? You: Hello I would like to close my open position but obviously can't due to the platforms being down Tricia: We had some other clients reporting this issue. We have escalated this to our tech support team for investigation. I apologize for the inconvenience. We are working to fix this issue at a highest priority. You: You can't close positions for me? Tricia: Unfortunately we cannot close positions at the moment You: Incredible.Thank you for your "help" Tricia:...
Wow... What service.
  • #4,514
  • Oct 1, 2015 8:57am Oct 1, 2015 8:57am
Still not working here - habe to hedge on another Broker
  • #4,515
  • Oct 1, 2015 9:02am Oct 1, 2015 9:02am
Quoting Bigvick991
metatrader and web trader back up I'm sure Oanda will be rolling out compensation for those effected negativly by the downtime
But of course!

Provided you're above 90 years old and you're showing a written confirmation of your current age by your granddad.
  • #4,516
  • Oct 1, 2015 9:02am Oct 1, 2015 9:02am
In Bangkok it is working again (at least as of now)...
  • #4,517
  • Oct 1, 2015 9:21am Oct 1, 2015 9:21am
Looking at the chart on lower tfs there are empty candles during the so called maintanance. I suspect all orders have not been filled for anyone during this period.
  • #4,518
  • Oct 1, 2015 9:26am Oct 1, 2015 9:26am
from Oanda
The outage was related to an internal network issue. All customer data and financial records are fully secure.
  • #4,519
  • Oct 1, 2015 12:56pm Oct 1, 2015 12:56pm
Quoting mgluso
from Oanda The outage was related to an internal network issue. All customer data and financial records are fully secure.
Yeah - cewl - this means not even the communications infrastructure has some redundancy.

This might seed thoughts about their database or application redundancy - which is much more expensive than some redundant switches and comm-lines.
  • #4,520
  • Oct 1, 2015 4:25pm Oct 1, 2015 4:25pm
Lost 4% of my live account due to the Oanda maintenance issues yesterday.



Was just about to manually close all x3 trades that were starting to go against me, when the Oanda system went down. I would have lost just under 1% of my account if I could have closed my trades there and then. I don't trade with peanuts either. We're talking serious money.

Utter garbage Oanda - Not impressed at all.

My advice to anyone out there thinking of opening an account with Oanda, is don't!

If a brokerage company doesn't have another server, or backup system that they can switch over to automatically when something goes wrong technically, then their broker licence isn't worth the ink that it is written with!

Sort yourselves out Oanda! It just isn't good enough!

Guys, stay away from Oanda, until they do sort their system out. You are just throwing your hard earned money in to an empty pit otherwise.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" Napoleon Bonaparte
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