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Hello Morris, I think it's telling that this issue has stirred up a complete lack of response here. Does anyone really care about CMC UK any more, much less use them? The commission change takes CMC back to their 8 gbp minimum commissions on UK equities (for example) that they dropped in...

The name immediately gave me a negative vibe, and then I realised why. Sounds like: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/02/12/52403/dear-clients-of-gfx-please-accept-this-apology-for-the-way-this-message-is-being-conveyed-locked/ City of London Police’s Economic Crime Department has begun an...

Thanks for the link (again!) Jim. I'll have a look at that. As far as reinventing the wheel is concerned, for the relatively small jobs I usually find the best way of getting exactly what I want is to write my own tools - before becoming a full-time derivatives trader six years ago I used to...

Thanks for that Jim - I didn't realise there was this kind of data difference between Alpari's demo and non-pro live accounts. I'm in Asia at the moment and thought it could be routing with Smart Live - even though Alpari seems fine - but perhaps it's simply that one feed is better by design. I...

I have a general data-related question for Smart Live. I'm testing the same bot on two different platforms - Smart Live (live account) and Alpari (demo account). It became clear that Alpari had a much higher probability of taking trades, which wasn't related to the different spread. It seemed...

Thanks for posting this warning. I knew this was coming but not so quickly. I don't see CMC changing. They've made it obvious in the last few weeks that they have an agenda and it's too bad if customers don't like it. Yes, moving to a more open web-based platform isn't necessarily a bad move...

John, I had exactly the same problem when I tried QuoteTracker with MoneyAM in March. By the time I'd finished twelve emails had gone back and forth between QuoteTracker Support and myself - so at least they are responsive, but by the end of the exchange I felt they weren't motivated to admit...

I may be wrong, but it had always been my understanding that all phone calls from clients to dealing desks of FSA regulated firms had to be recorded, and failure to do so was considered a serious breach of FSA rules. I'd be quite surprised if this wasn't the case as I had believed, because...

On the subject of CMC's electronic funding of CFD accounts, while in years gone by this has been done in minutes, it's been my experience in the last few months that transfers can now take up to two hours to show as deposited in the Marketmaker platform, so I imagine that phoning them would...

Hello James, It's Thursday now so I thought I'd follow up on this point. The platform is still logging me out on a frequent basis, and it doesn't matter whether I use IE7 or Firefox 2. I've also tested it with the latest beta of Firefox 3, with the same result. I'd say the longest I managed to...

DMA Spreadbet Nigel, actually iDealing have direct access spreadbetting but they don't go out of their way to advertise it. I heard some providers in Gibraltar might be trialling the idea a while back but I haven't seen anything concrete.