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There was a DNS server failure. They emailed out an alternative access. The real disruption is that they have been barred from using the term S&P500 like with D4F so they have to working around this.

Interactive Brokers started much longer than 18 months ago...

Let's put it this way, if you read your SBs customer agreement, there are no segregated accounts for customers' monies. Now regulation in the futures market is pretty solid, but if we are talking bout spread betting, even with "regulation", there is still no segregation and no guarantees as...

The customer's order is not send to the pit/exchange, it is "dropped" into a "bucket" inside the firm. Conceptually related to exchange traded products. With exchange traded products, brokers don't run a book (except for stock specialist), they execute the trade at the exchange. SB, Interbank...

I know they are a bucket shop/running a book. The only difference between an SB (or the interbank/OTC markets) and them is that there is a regulatory authority. What I need to know is if they have been honoring their deals. I have search the net but can't find complaints of them not honoring...

The spreads are exchange supposed to be the exchange prices while for FX it is 5 pips. Essentially, a bucket shop/bookie. But they seem to have been around for a while. Then again, most SBs are running a book ...

Yes they are Net only. But their uptime statistics is almost 100%. The risk is when you enter an order and then before you put in a stop ... the site goes down. Spanish accent I suppose. Portuquese used only in Brazil. There's Saxo Bank but minimum account size is USD10K. RefcoFX, FXCM, MG...

Hi, Is Deal4Free operationally still screwy? I spoke to a helpdesk person and asked about their system uptime statistics and he claimed they don't keep such records!!! So if he wasn't going to reveal them, things must be pretty bad. Couldn't even open a demo account. This was well over a month...

http://www.enetspeculation.com/pub/en/default.asp Hi, Has anyone used them before? Going to test run using their trial account but conceivably, the trial account could be show "great service" and then later when you do the real thing, it be another matter altogether.