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WARNING TO ALL CAPITALSPREADS USERS REGARDING PHANTOM TRADES: - My experience when trading with CS is that if I receive the 'price no longer valid' ticket, then this trade will not go through and I can forget about it. However, if the ticket times out (for whatever reason), I will often get a...

bah, so if I'd left it on it would have eventually gone through and made money...I lost out big time and will be filing complaints with the FSA, The Financial Ombudsmen, the FBI, MI5, the CIA, the Airport Authority, the RSPCA, and Amnesty International ! ... actually, I really don't mind (I...

filling orders Hi Simon, have you by any chance changed the way orders are filled? I had a tiny order to sell some euro's but the market got choppy around the us new home sales data (its usually not a big mover), and the price went through my order price pretty quick. I was waiting to get...

Is there a system failure with deal ticket 'time-outs'? This is not an attack on Capitalspreads because they have dealt with problems fairly and with speed. It's more of a tip/heads-up to all CS traders: Background: I tried to place a trade on EUR/USD at around 3:00 today and the ticket just...

Simon, in terms of order filling I must echo an earlier comment that there seems to be a bias that favours filling orders when prices have moved in your favour against when they move in ours. To clarify what I mean, we seem to see more 'price no longer valid' type responses when we the price...

not sure if the forex price feeds have technically improved since the start of the new year but I've noticed a big reduction in general wobbliness ('wrong prices' and 'delays') ... good stuff indeed, this improved robustness is most welcome !

xmas bonus for John ! I am no longer on autotrader (John) because a few weeks back I exploited a handful of off-kilter prices (I'll put my hand up...I couldn't help it .. they were just staring me in the face...my bad), but I'm sure most people are on still on autotrader (John) on trades below...

Hi FXScalper. I think that may have been an error on their system. The IMR is currently 60 for cable (this is what is has always been as far as I know.) It's still 40 on other major currency pairs like EUR/USD and USD/JPY.

My issue was resolved professionally and promptly. Thanks.

Hi Simon, I have e-mailed you (via T2Win e-mail) the slipped prices.

Ah yes yes, I see I am on and autotrader and he apparantly goes by the name of Jon....(as in Johnny Mnemonic perhaps!). Anyway, there are good and bad points about Jon. He is much faster than the human traders, which is good. He slips prices (stop-losses) more often than humans, which is bad...

It looks like Simon fairly recently answered a host of questions on Capitalspreads over on: http://www.financial-spread-betting.com/Capital-Spreads-faqs.html ...should save readers from having to search through this thread to find answers to old questions. Hope it is useful.

Thanks for the quick response Simon.

Hi, I've just received an e-mail saying 24 hour FX trading is up and running (cool!) and that you have a new policy regarding fills. Please can you fill me in on how the policy (see below) has changed to what it was before? [I]From now onwards any 'New order' placed will be filled if the market...

Hi all, from my telephone convo with CS today, they said the 24 hour trading was going to be ready in about a month. Sounded a bit vague, but its something to go by until Simon confirms. : )