Yes I agree, they made it unnecessary awkward. Anyway dealing ticket no big deal really, the important thing is spread, speed of execution and preciseness thereof.
Oanda tickets are the best, you can pre-set what take profits and stops you want and save that setting and enter market or limit on 1 click.There are other ways to solve the problem with the order ticket, but you can never do anything about the actual execution speed. Yes, Oanda might have a very good solution, but you can only trade FX with them and it is not SB.Of course the dealing ticket is important. If it wasn't for me you wouldn't even have the buy and sell on seperate tickets for one instrument, and that took ages to get through to Peter and a barrage of insults from Black Swan who ended up working for CMC. All I wanted was 1 click trade tickets, but he knows it's easier to make money that way, can't have that can they?
I hope it worked out OK for you. One again, trading SB from a risk management point of view one has to have a second SB up and running, this in order to hedge yourself in order to protect the position when needed.
The problem is that a lot of complaining CMC traders don't take the effort of find this thread, the same goes for satisfied clients I guess. That makes me wonder the about number of clients trading SB with them. CFD's we know, they are a lot of traders that prefer trading with CMC.
Why are they good for CFD trading but not otherwise??
Well, they are one of the biggest players on CFD's instruments and been around from the beginning with the platform Marketmaker. For what I understand they will convert gradually to the new CMC next-gen platform.
I'm the lucky one of the last night's CMC server malfunction. I shorted Brent Oil at 127.3 but it went to 128.3, I wanted to stop loss but couldn't close. After the server resumed function, the Brent Oil was 126.1, if the server stuck longer I would get more profit today.
The key is if the trade eventually result a loss because of can't close, can I claim moeny back from CMC?Be careful what you say, as they might get in contact and ask for the money back.
No I don't think they will agree on such a claim. Platforms goes down at times and it's important to have a stop in place. For one reason or the other SB traders don't seem to be covered with hedging possibilities when these things happen.
