Trading Broker Time Delay

hi traders,
i had an idea and was wondering if anyone had done any research on it or there were any other threads i could read (if you know any please link them, i couldn't find any). anyway heres my idea:
-brokers dont instantaneously deliver the same quotes so would it be possible to get the fastest quote service you can find and then trade through the slowest quoting broker you can find. this way you could scalp the future using extremely tight timeframes.

im not sure if this is even possible, just exploring the idea. any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

NasdaqNinja

Well, I think that the difference is to small. And if you're also dealing with spread...

what would the difference be? minutes? seconds? or fractions of seconds? if the difference is big enough it could work on a 2 pip spread pair. any other thoughts?

Hello,

It does work, but the biggest problem is that the brokers
will requote and slip your orders so that it almost negates
the trade. Try FX-Pro and ForexLTD.

Coder

which one is the slower/faster ?

You're the slowest because the thread died about 5 years ago

I did it between 2 brokers with MT4 using EA scripts and DLL s.

the issue is the slippage.

walker

didn't see this one coming

what are the 2 brokers ?

I'm guessing that any stp borker that gives you fairer prices will tend to be not far behind the "consensus" price. It's the market makers that offer you more wiggle room for arbitrage and they are more likely to give you problems with entering a trade such as requoting you. I once watched the nfp release on Alpari UK and Vantage FX (uk) at the same time and Alpari spiked the price down and then slammed it up and then ultimately back down again. After a bit of sideways movement the Vantage price just gently sauntered to the downside which is where Alpari ended up eventually. Now, good luck with entering a trade on Alpari at those high prices and don't forget that a lot of that will have been spread widening but there was a theoretical opportunity there. I'm yet to find anyone who has convinced me that this kind of arbitrage can make a regular, worthwhile return in the long term without you being banned from your borker or driving yourself mad with requotes. I always have an open mind though.

What is the name for tis type of trading ?

SCAM-trading.

this is really a great answer

Arbitrage trading. I'm reading up on an EA that does this. Slippage is in indeed the downfall of the plan, so you have to keep it less than 2 pips. http://www.pointzero-trading.com/Pro.../PZArbitrageEA

Arbitrage is quite popular nowadays. In 2010 this trading skill increase in a number of traders. After few years then, broker start to prevent arbitrage and banned account that use arbitrage.
In 2015, there was so many programmers created software for arbitrageurs that link fastest data feeder with traders mt4 account as they knew mt4 is third party software for most brokers that has lag in processing datafeed price. Then broker start allowing arbitrage trading with plugin for an anti scalper such as http://www.t4b.com/