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Just opened account with them - from their website seems they offer VPS and Molanis EA builder for a accounts above 3k. Looks good

FXCM and Transparency ! the doc :- Forex Capital Markets LLC Ordered to Pay More Than $14.2 Million to Settle CFTC Charges Relating to Its Failure to Supervise Customer Accounts has the following statement :- 'Further, the CFTC order finds that FXCM failed to produce certain records...

Yes PBoyles. Hopefully all of the transparency of these decisions and rapid spread on the internet will be cautionary lessons to untainted companies to continue to play fairly with a straight bat, and make fair and honest returns, because deviating from that could mean sacrificing reputation for...

Thanks. good that the new system now passes on the positive slippage in the customers favour, but if the old system was recognising negative slippage at both stages, it suggests that this ineficiency of operation was more by design than oversight. The enhancement ( correction to the system to...

Can't believe all the discussion about trading with fxcm when there is a proven intent to unfairly bias trading against the customer regarding slippage, and who knows what else Forex Capital Markets LLC Ordered to Pay More Than $14.2 Million to Settle CFTC Charges Relating to Its Failure to...

Jim have you traded Alpari spreadbetting in your human guise already :) - just wondering if you had experienced any noticeable differences compared with SLM in executions, requotes ( assuming max dev from quoted price is the same ) etc

Hello Jim, look forward to seeing the longer term ( not too long :) ) results. Would be reassuring if similar results I suppose. Yes Tenapenny you are right - you can type in the more expected smaller micro levels of .10, .20, .30, .40 and .50. Seems weird that the defaults are 10-14p though.

The trade denominations below £1 in the ticket seem odd. go from 10p to 14p

Always at risk ! :)

.. and by the way how many more posts before I'm promoted from Rookie to Junior :)

Quote: Originally Posted by francisfinley if you had 50,000 in your trading account would you really be with alpari? - where then ? , supposing we get the hang of this trading lark at some stage and build up beyond that level. Where would you recommend fellas ?

GKFX offers equity Index markets as well as FX on MT4 - ask them to give you the spreads on DAX & USDCHF

Ha ha - Francis I knew the robots were trading, and now they're doing customer service as well. Watch out India and far flung customer service centres - you are at risk ! Mind you I can see his point tho - they don't offer equity Index markets for SB accounts at the minute please go elsewhere...

On the ForexPeaceArmy customer gripes. Alpari said that the bulk of trading activity by that customer was targetting stale prices due to a bug in their software and so they definitely seem justified in reversing the profits that arose from those trades.

In the Alpari pdf on their UK website it say that the Alpari client funds are segregated and held with a tier-one bank, and in the unlikely event they become insolvent client funds will not be used to pay back creditors. To me this implies that customer monies are completely safe if at the very...