Recent content by romik

Real vs not real is nonsense, if SB posted a price that you took, they have to honour what they quote. Their inefficiency should NOT be their clients' problem. You quote We accept End of I can't see how FSA allows this to take place. Does that mean that an SB firm can theoretically get out of...

Is momentum trading also classed as unacceptable Simon? Scalping is taking profit +few ticks gain & doing so many many times during the day. So if I enter at an increased momentum & close within minutes, does it constitute scalping in your books? Do your T&C define what you consider to be...

Thing is I tried out CS in the past & at times everything would just freeze, that's poor. Is that still the case?

I see, thanks.

What is "trade latency"?

cs, I am a short term trader, I cut losses sharp & don't hold winners for too long either, I don't reveal stops to brokers either. How long will I last before you would close my account assuming I can pull 20k from you pretty much every month?

Which SB is considered to be best in industry for speed of execution & spreads?

How reliable is CS? What's their attitude towards winning traders?

Get a separate charting package/feed & as long as there is no lag in CS's quotes and they answer the phone promptly you will be just fine. No such thing as free lunch, that applies to most things in life, certainly applies to CS in a way, you don't get a bun with your burger :)

JBAT, man, do yourself a favour and scrap their charts & never use them. I see you are using indicators, if you make your trade decisions based on patterns, etc. then you will find that they indicate wrong values, you are not seeing true values. If you are trading S&P500 futures, then get...

I do try to be subjective, my main concern is that CS's clients do not lose money unnecessarily. IMO if a broker (or any business for that matter) has the means to rectify a problem & he does not benefit from that problem, then he would make the changes to better the service. That's just common...

The main issue with using SBs chart data is that it is based on SB's quotes. I've just done a quick reference on SPX's major Support on daily 28th Nov 06- Actual low was 1377.83 & CS's low was 1375.90. Here is another major Support on the weekly 12 June 06 - Actual low was 1219.29 and CS's low...

And IMO they are acceptable for tightwads. I would only place a trade if CS's quote matches my chart's data from IQ, if they don't match then there is no trade.

FWIW your fills are probably one of the best when compared to other SBs, but all SBs charts are rubbish, hence I do not see the point of providing them in the first place. Forget FX, I've seen spikes on S&P & not on my other charting platform. My response was to a poster who complained about...