Recent content by Devon Womble

investtech I have used investtech for a while and it is great - my problem is that it has recently gone from being a free site to a 140-ish euros per month subscription-only site. I will probably end up paying this but, just incase, does anyone know of a similar site that provides a similar...

Emasiello - I understand perfectly well what you are saying and I think you are right to be aggrieved. As you say, this issue has been discussed here many times before - some D4F users have said that stops are not activated by 'spikes' unless there is a trade at that price in the 'real market'...

I think we are drifting away from the point. I am quite happy to accept that my stops may not be set properly from an experienced trader's point of view - my point is that the SB companies may be abusing their positions and overly adjusting their prices in relation to the underlying market...

Chump - As TB says, it doesn't really matter where or why I am placing my stops, if I get stopped out due to artificial price spikes then that can't be fair. I will give you my real life example - went short on Tate & Lyle at approx 306. A couple of days later the offer price was down to approx...

Thanks for the replies and I apologise for not looking at the 'similar threads' list at the bottom of the page first - not used to finding my way around the site yet. So it seems that some/many SB firms will 'run' prices deliberately to trigger stops, rendering them pretty useless in my book...

I have opened an account with deal4free and am paper trading until I am happy to start with real money (if ever) -they don't provide the facility of a dummy account. I have noticed that some share bets tend to spike massively (up or down) at the start of day, normally only for a minute or less...