Recent content by TheDarkTrader

I agree, trading the news is highly risky. I myself do not trade the high impact news frequently. However in this case, I was intially more concerned that it was a technical issue that caused the 4 minute loss of data e.g servers going down. The technical support confirmed that their servers...

I had the same bar chart presentation as the one above, on Avatrader, an alternate broker I was also watching at the time, whereby immediately after the news release there were three blue (up) bars followed by the down bars from 04:30 EDT to 04:34 EDT. On FXCM, there were no bars from 04:30 to...

Paul, Thanks for your prompt reply. It sort of confirms my suspicion :) I would be most grateful if you could you please tell me what broker platform you got the snapshot from and how reliable the broker is. Thanks again

I was watching the GBP/USD earlier today on the FXCM platform and at precisely 04:30, when the UK PPI figures were released the GBP/USD price panel and chart froze. All other prices were still updating on the panels. The prices and charts started updating after again 4 minutes where the price...