Disconnects are a regular feature on Oanda, coincidentally they seem to happen more frequently when trying to place a market order than any other time! ~ ~ ~
forestgril, Don't bother opening a new "boycott Oanda" thread. I'll just merge it with this one. Save your key strokes for other actions, like closing your account with Oanda - which is what you should have been doing for the last few months of complaining.
My connection was terrible today. Tried to stop and reverse a trade and got the dreaded communication error which resulted in a nice loss and then my reverse position being filled right at the end of the move. Hmmm...
It depends on your trading style and what you need from your marketmaker. For my trading style they started out great but got worse as time went on, for someone else's trading style they may be perfect. Oanda, like any MM, have their pro's and con's.