my isp Shaw went down while i was in an fx trade, fortunately my digital phone still worked and Oanada customer service closed my trade Shaw cs hadn't any info about the outage, bye, five minutes later the service was down again and after a loooong wait i learnt there was a server specific to my location amongst others that was being repaired while the service was back up after a few minutes i'm advised the estimated repair finish time will be after 8:00am pst . until that time and a phone confirmation that the repair has been completed i won't trade since exiting the trade the eurusd went up 6pips, down 20, up 27, down 40, up, down and upping again so a lot of pips going by the main question is - whatever one trades - what non isp realtime quote services are available ? my requirement is for fx quotes
+1 on that. If you're eventually going to trade full time, you need to treat the matter as a business. (Good) Businesses have backup networks, data storage etc. if it's critical to their operation. Having a backup plan for power, network and computer are critical to a trading business. Does it cost money? You bet. But so does having open positions you can't close.
thank for replies, i realize now i'd thought about backup via the phone company internet service - no phone account required - ordered used cqg satellite before and it went down, tho it's current up-time may have improved Oanda don't have a telephone order desk so i was glad to know 'crisis trades' can be made via the service rep, took a couple of minutes since the process is for the rep to login with the account holder's info and enter the order via the trading platform Oanda also has a free FXTrade Mobile program for pda/cell that provides quotes and order entry: http://fxlabs.oanda.com/cgi/fxlabs.pl?n=fxtrademobile MetaQuotes mobiles for pda or cell - mini version of MT4 - charts: http://www.metaquotes.net/en/metatrader4/mobile_trading i backup data via thumb drives and while i only have one computer, i'm more concerned with being able to close any trades in a 'crisis' rather than a power outage or a computer crash; currently i'm only trading fx not a variety of instruments, however if i were operating a 'business' rather than being a 'home trader' i would have a full redundant system