Alpari's pricing policy

[shadowninja]

What a pointless load of tripe.



The price now jumps up blocks of 10. There is zero benefit to users. Harder to measure pips, harder to set stop losses and order prices quickly. 10 times slower in fact. Time to find another broker.

 

[chilltrader]

I've already gone to ActivTrades

 

[shadowninja]

Never heard of them. Are they any good fill-wise? I see I can use MT4 for gold and silver. *scratches chin*

 

[rols]

What a pointless load of tripe.



The price now jumps up blocks of 10. There is zero benefit to users. Harder to measure pips, harder to set stop losses and order prices quickly. 10 times slower in fact. Time to find another broker.

Is this alpari US or UK?

I think this is for the holiday period only.
Back to normal end of next week/following week I expect.

Normally 2 pips spread EUR/USD 3 pips GBP/USD and not too much jumping about.

 

[chilltrader]

Never heard of them. Are they any good fill-wise? I see I can use MT4 for gold and silver. *scratches chin*

FSA regulated.. fills look ok to me (at par or better with Alpari).

Customer support is a gruffy male voice which on picking the phone just says "aactiff"

...unlike the nice female at Alpari

 

[shadowninja]

That's a point. I'll stick with Alpari. They answer the phone just wearing french knickers, dontcha know.

 

[shadowninja]

Is this alpari US or UK?

I think this is for the holiday period only.
Back to normal end of next week/following week I expect.

Normally 2 pips spread EUR/USD 3 pips GBP/USD and not too much jumping about.

No, it's because they have added a decimal place.

 

[MrGecko]

... they added a decimal place and now trade in 10 units - isn't that exactly the same...???

 

[chilltrader]

That's a point. I'll stick with Alpari. They answer the phone just wearing french knickers, dontcha know.

thats a shame... I thought it was the b'day suit

 

[shadowninja]

... they added a decimal place and now trade in 10 units - isn't that exactly the same...???

Yes, that's easy enough. It is in the areas I mentioned that things get screwed up and harder to quickly work out. Like when you measure a 10 pip long bar, it is now 100centipips(!?) so the measuring device goes up in 1 centipip gaps. It was fine before...

And setting stop losses was quick and easy with up/down buttons. Jumped one pip at a time, now it jumps one centipip at a time which means it takes ten clicks to increase by one pip.

 

[SirFrancis]

Does anyone know what impact this will have on EAs? - (particularly fabturbo?)

 

[KillPhil08]

Probably reprogramming them to take account for different values. Otherwise orders would be set at different places? I don't know.

I'm pretty sure there are premade tools which allow you move the stoplosses by dragging a line rather than typing SN if that helps. A bit like GFT.

 

[shadowninja]

That would be handy!

Yes, EAs might need rewriting, depending on what they do.

 

[SirFrancis]

Does anyone know what impact this will have on EAs? - (particularly fabturbo?)

Fabturbo have now confirmed that some or other internal code deal with this automatically. This is confirmed in their manual.

 

[shadowninja]

Depends on the EA, surely. I've had to adjust my indicator.

I notice the extra dec pl is now in use. 1.39311 for instance.

 

[Benny Dorm]

I have a live Activ account. I get invalid prices or requotes all the time. Funnily enough the deal goes thru if it is against me. What a surprise.

Roll on ATC.

 

[skelly22]

I have to say this new 5 frick'n digit is a pain in the you know what. Talk about a useless digit. They claim its so they can introduce lower spreads. Like hell!! most of the spreads on the cross pairs like GPBJPY and CHFJPY are were put up in Dec for "a few hours" and they're still up. If i wasn't so lazy I'd change broker.

Right, that's off my chest, ...... now I can go to bed.

 

[shadowninja]

Write an email complaining. I am still not happy. The only thing is that it doesn't round up/down so much compared to Oanda.

 

[skelly22]

Write an email complaining. I am still not happy. The only thing is that it doesn't round up/down so much compared to Oanda.

Yes I will today.

One thing that i would look forward to is this:

I emailed a couple of months back asking if they had any other markets available on metatrader and they replied to say this:

"Alpari (UK) Customer Services to me
Hi

At present we offer Forex only. At the beginning of next year we will introduce new instruments such as CFDs, Future, Indices etc.


Best regards,

Anna Zenina

Helpdesk / Customer Support

Alpari (UK) Limited

41 Eastcheap, London EC3M 1DT, United Kingdom

Forex trading with Alpari. Real time foreign exchange trading services. Free forex news, forex charts, analysis.

Tel.: +44 (0)20 7648 4580

Fax: +44 (0)20 7648 4561"

I would like to be able to trade other markets too from the one platform and thats why i'm slow in moving. Maybe the new digits are required in some way for this!

 

[jeffsmith]

Trading with any broker is of no means for now. The market is still at an unstable condition the only thing we can do is take use of pivot points. Through this, we can get the daily target of the commodities or the currencies you want to trade. Seeing the present scenario of the market, I am using the pivot point calculator while i trade with AVAFX. I am able to win this market with the help of pivot point.