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J-Law
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 352 |
03-15-12 12:09 AM
What's the story with Alpari? Yes, I know they sponsor the forum.
But, how do they rate?
Good, bad, Oooogly????
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Wallace
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 3021 |
03-15-12 10:42 PM
one of The oldest fx brokers, started in Moscow in 1998
never heard complaints about them
registered in London UK and New York USA where they've expanded into futures, and
may have offices elsewhere
don't believe there has been any regulator action against them anywhere
only used their demos - for a decade - I'm restricted here in BC, Canada with whom
I can trade but their Support has always been very good
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kroz
Registered: Mar 2012
Posts: 3 |
03-16-12 04:04 AM
I used Alpari for a long time with a demo account strictly for MT4 charting. Unless they offer a different data feed for live accounts than for demo accounts, there were quite a few frustrating lags. Lags during news volatility is understandable, but during regular breakouts is really annoying. Luckily I was doing the actual trading with Oanda so it wasn't my only source for live price, but the disruption in the price feed was frequent enough and had a long enough recovery time that it was pretty noticeable. (I actually previously wrote a blog post about it in more detail: whipplebox.com/?p=247) But if you're swing trading or holding for days at a time, maybe it's not that big a deal.
Not that I'm endorsing Oanda, because they have their frustrations, too, after all I did transfer my capital from them to a different (futures) broker. But that's another topic (and blog post).
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Cassius
Registered: Jun 2011
Posts: 7 |
05-04-12 12:26 PM
I've had some experience with their unregulated NZ branch. They indeed had different data feeds for demo and for live accounts. Demo feed usually had faster execution but this demo feed was also used for some testing purposes. So there were sometimes disruptions in demo while the live feed was stable.
Maybe in Alpari UK the situation is somewhat similar? Again, never heard of any serious problems with this broker.
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oilfxpro
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 1600 |
05-04-12 12:29 PM
Quote from J-Law:
What's the story with Alpari? Yes, I know they sponsor the forum.
But, how do they rate?
Good, bad, Oooogly????
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