Been trying s/b for a little while with some success as an alternative to my usual thing.. Ok I give up-or is it me.? -screen price 1.5625 28 deal price 1.5619.(bid) thats an awfully big discrepancy . £60 away before we move.Not for the first time. Back to the real market for me.
On this occassion it was IG. On the whole i`ve been happy with them but this seems to happen more with SB. Every time it seems like they nick a few points (not particular to IG). As an ex trader i`m aware that a point here and there is common but 5 or 6 on every other trade is surely taking the ***
I'm not at all surprised that IG's traders could do that. I've found that regarding IG, the only way to teach them it seems is to take your business elsewhere; which for me was CMC for many years, until recently when I was frozen out of my account for several minutes after crude became particularly volatile, & manual execution wasn't causing me to lose enough paper. Shame really, because CMC's spreads generally beat everyone elses' hands down. Now thinking of opening an account with GFT...