'Absolutely fucking pathetic'? You said it! Kinda dispels your 'Oanda shill' theory though don't it, slapshot had to do your research for you That post of mine he quoted, and others like it (complete with video clips to help the cerebrally challenged like you!) have been right here in this thread for months and seeing as the title of the thread is "Oanda - Add Your SCAM SCREENS Here" I would of thought that would have been a clue....lol, obviously not a big enough clue for you though, huh! Reading comprehension's clearly not your strong suit Einstein as you're obviously finding it difficult to maintain a sensible conversation about the subject, heck you couldn't even reply to my post! Probably the best thing you could do is leave it to slapshot who seems to have an idea what he's talking about (even though it is slightly misguided!) and just melt away into the background, you're making yourself look very stupid! Have a great day, and thanks for the entertaining chat
Cabletrader - it is obvious that you are part of that all-too-common breed of freak that uses discussion boards to pontificate and self-aggrandize. You have posted out your ass so many times that you can't even keep your stories straight. Over 2000 posts in about a year - dude, get a life! But that doesn't matter to attention-seekers like you. "Facts" are pliable for you as long as you can try to come across as some kind of expert when in fact the rest of us can see right through you. We know you suffer from a big ego + low self-esteem because you wear it on your sleeve. Only 2 months ago, you are saying that Oanda is a freezing piece of shit with horrible spreads and technology - right on the Broker Review! You specifically said it is for kiddie-traders - read your own f'ing review, boy! Now here you are ranting on about how fantastic it is! Telling people about how tiny the spreads are and how perfect the fills are! Do you see the problem here? You are neurotic. Get help.
lol, in traditional chat forum style unable to sustain a rational debate or support your opinion with any sort of lucid well-thought-out logical argument you resort to inane offensive attacks when you've painted yourself into a corner. It's always the same with people like you, it's just too predictable and just too damn funny! Go join traderNik, I'm sure you'll enjoy each other's company and have endless hours of harmless fun spouting garbage at each other, lol Is that it, are we done now seeing as how you couldn't reply to the salient points I made in my post? Hmmm, figures... Well, you have a great day, and thanks for the entertaining chat, do drop by again sometime Game, set, and match to me I believe, another turkey swiftly dispatched, no staying power you people!
This is a perfect example of your detachment from reality: - YOU are the one who insulted me first because I posted an opinion - you called me ignorant and posted some joke photo directed at me, when in fact I was only concurring with what you wrote in your broker review, which you now conveniently ignore when asked about it. - YOU are the one that won't respond when challenged about your flip-flopping on "facts" You are accusing me of the very things you have done. Then you babble like you have somehow show me up. Again, another sign of your neurosis. I hope that someday you can break your denial about what a sad, lonely little attention-seeking troll you are. I am going to ignore you now, and keep dispelling BS like yours every time I see it on this site.
More trollish dross and inane insults but still no reply to the salient points I made about the subject being discussed. Yeah, right, it figures. Why can't you reply to my post, are you really unable to support your opinions with reasoned argument and logic? Were they just rash knee-jerk impulsive comments you made based on ignorance without thinking them through first, it sure seems that way because you don't seem able to back them up with anything of any substance when challenged with facts and evidence. If you want a "comprehensive argument" like you say you do then have one, I'm ready, but you don't really want that do you sport, because the tanks dry and you've run out of anything to say that goes anywhere near supporting the garbage you've come out with. If that's not the case perhaps you could start by replying to this post? No, I didn't think so....I rest my case
Cabletrader, I am a moron but ... not a total moron (not to understand f.e. that qoutes ought to be the same for everybody DEMO or REAL!, not only for one person and if there is a stop hunting, then it means stops for more than one person) Question: what other broker, besides Oanda gave You that qoutes, which I thought was a stop-hunting? (http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2253597) ------------------------------------------- A remark: Oanda spreads in E/U used to be 0.91 on usual, now it is 1.5pip (on average, I think). 1.8pip at the moment (10:33). A second remark: I agree with Cable on the following point: SCALPING CAN BE VERY PROFITABLE! In my opinion probably more profitable on 1min chart than on any other. Just find Your way - a system - and check it out. Scalping is not very difficult. If You are afraid of bad fills, You can always buy- and sell-stop in important points with a preses stop-loss.... SCALPING IS GOOOOD If that quote, which I thought was a stop-hunting was correct than I have to admit, that besides a one disconnect, I didn't see any other important fails on Oanda for 20 hours of demo-game. --------------------------------- But it is difficult for me to understand, as well as for Slapshot, why Cable is so ambiguous about Oanda. Every two months he states something else :/
Oanda don't quote individually based on your position(s), they stream the same prices to everyone. With some marketmakers you may find that prices sometimes differ slightly between demo and real accounts as quotes can be streamed from different sources or not updated as fast or as often, or filtered as efficiently. At this level if/when stop hunting (a misnomer in this context) occurs it is extremely unlikely to be targeted at an individual trade or trader, if/when it happens quotes would be manipulated based on their book and therefore some traders will benefit and some will lose, ie your stop may be someone elses take-profit. Don't forget, quote manipulation is not necessarily done just to get your money, it's often used to provide in-house liquidity especially in a thin market. If you're nimble and observant enough you may be able to exploit those arbitrage opportunities! Probably IBFX, although I have 6 other MT4 platforms installed so it might have been another one, if it's important to you I can look it up if you give me the day/time in EST. It fluctuates to reflect the underlying market, it's 1.2 at the moment, even with that spread I believe it's still cheaper than futures though. Of course it can....if you know what you're doing, and I've posted trading blotters of around 1,000 trades to prove that point. People who say scalping spot with a bucketshop is stupid or unprofitable are usually the people who have tried it and failed because of their own lack of ability or understanding of the market they're trying to profit from, what else can they expect but to lose. It's easier for them to blame the market or the broker than accept responsibility for their own losses, human nature I guess but they're only fooling themselves! You can't really compare the reliability of demo against live, or the efficiency of fills or accuracy of streamed quotes. Demo platforms are primarily used to allow prospective live clients to familiarize themselves with how the platform works, they're not a reliable test of how efficient the broker will be at executing trades in a live market. Every two months is a slight exaggeration but sure my opinion of Oanda changes depending on how they perform, and so far this year they have performed extremely well in my opinion. In order to be fair I am just as quick to compliment them on a job well done as I have been to criticize them when things like connection, platform stability, or fills have been bad, that's only fair in my opinion. If you're paranoid that your broker is hunting your stops (I don't quite follow why you think they would do that on a demo but anyway) then either change broker or find a different market to trade such as futures, it's that simple!
When will you spot FOREX knuckleheads learn? Ever? You should be trading currencies @ CME through GLOBEX. Spot FX gives rise to broker manipulation. I mean, really... How many of your SPOT FOREX guys actually trade with more than $100,000? It's a joke. Stop your whining. Open up a REAL account!