Good morning,i do not trade with fxpro so i cannot ans your original question.However like you i think that for newbies and to avoid costly mistakes and grief no end of(been there) i,m wondering if pboyles would point u all in the right direction.He doe not use retail brokers and to be frank from what ive read on different forums maybe he is right.All i can say is use a true ECN broker maybe wih level 2. Now try to find one that is actually a ECN broker most are retail and lie about being true ECN brokers.Do NOT use spread betting companies and or Market Makers you are not dealing with the true market place.I hope that pboyles will at least point us all in the right direction if not an actual broker.Mike
Not to send this topic spiralling even more off topic with another rant...
The same methods that I use on spread betters also work on Interactive Brokers, except I don't pay 52% tax & National Insurance effective on the former. My conclusion therefore, if you lose on spread betters, you'll also lose to the open market (except perhaps on futures with commission rather than a spread if you're a 10% edge type) but then at least you're contributing to the true 'zero sum game' eh, so your money goes to some sod in Barclays rather than to a spread betting company. Would people be happier with that situation?
Of course losing one's head while using a spread better and blowing up your account, will cause the masses to google "SPREAD BETTER CHEATS FRAUD LIARS" - and at this point they'll realise their losses weren't down to them and they can then happily join that blameless bandwagon with a few hundred trades of experience (i.e. none) and a few sh*t books under their belt.
Can you please, for me, if noone else, explain what happened when you used a SB that caused you to directly lose money that you wouldn't have lost using IB or whoever? Preferably with charts referencing slippages and spikes and lag that didn't occur on the DMA broker, but did on SB and how it was you lost money on these that made making a profit impossible (i.e. the slippage needs to be large and commonplace).
I BET £300 A POINT DAY IN DAY OUT AND THEY KEEP NOT CHEATING ME OUT OF MY MONEY AND IT'S BOTHERING ME. THEY DO KEEP MAKING ME SEND THEM A JPG OF MY BANK STATEMENT EVERY TIME I WITHDRAW FOR SOME FRAUD >5K REASONING, THAT'S A BIT ANNOYING, I'LL ADMIT.
Ahem, I will pay you twenty English pounds for this service, sir.
Sorry for ruining this thread even more.