Hi, and welcome to my thread. My aim here is for everyone who spread bets and are being slipped, having their trades rejected during high volume trading times to post there experiences here.
My goal is to collect as much information as possible to see who the serial culprits are, then, with that information present it to the appropiate bodies to help us form a level playing field.
As a result the spread bet companies will be forced to stop their games that work to their advantage never ours no matter what they say and we can start earning some decent tax free profits of instead being forced to trade with decent real brokers but having to hand over up to 50% of our profits.
I would also like to hear from anyone who has had their account closed with no good reason (especially if you have been profitable).
Screen shots (with account details blanked out of course) would be great. I am going to a couple of screen shots of two incidents that have happened over the past couple of weeks. Or simply just post your experiences.
I'm for one am sick and tired of being slipped on my trades, having my trades delayed by a few seconds, or just outright being notified the market is suspended when the real market is ticking over nicely!
We should get an idea who the worst offenders are, then we can avoid them and spread the word, it's time we took back the power that we have - We are the customer, we hold the power to push for what we want, if they don't listen and stop their underhand tactics, we take our business elsewhere to a company who will listen.
So to re-cap, only post your bad experiences here, how much you were slipped etc, I'm not interested in hearing about how great your spread bet company is, because we will beable to tell this from the lack of reports that will be listed here.
Now we may get some posters on this site who I think are employed in some way post on this thread, I have a few names listed and if they pop up here, I will simply post 'Cretin' or 'Chimp' so once you see this, ignore them and instantly put them on your ignore list, because if you feed the Chimps, they will just carry on and try our ruin our thread, and quite frankly it's boring.
Another note to realise is that spread bet companies post on this site to promote their business, nothing else, they are not our friends, they want your money in their bank no matter what drivel they spout. We trade their market, when we win, they lose. The only thing we can do is to make sure they play by the rules so we have a fair chance of beating them, yes, it's a war of sorts.
Next week be prepared, have paint open and all you have to do is press either 'fn' and 'prt sc' (at the same time) on a laptop or 'ctrl' and 'prt sc' (again, at the same time) on a computer to save the screen image to desktop or pictures. Then with on your standard paint application in Windows press 'ctrl' and the letter 'V' and you will have the image, you can save as (then name it) and save the image as jpeg for faster uploading to this site.
Also check you trades - did you actually get the advertised spread? You will be surprised how many times you don't.
Count how many times you got the advertised spread and how many times you didn't, then post your details at the end of of either your trading session, or the end of the week. Many thanks.
