I don't want to discredit any brokers but after many decades of trading, market orders might be executed minutes later. So do expect things might go wrong due to server overload, software bugs, heavy traffic or whatever. or sometimes, it could be our keyboard or mouse (even if it is of superior quality) having intermittent problems.
Lithuania~Netherlands might be an issue. You After you hit sent, even from across the world it should be fast. If it is not, you should test your ping time. Long Ping times with us come from poor internet with many hops plus the use of poor WIFI. I have clients in Australia, China, Hong Kong and Russia that do not complain about the speed. There was one guy in the US had had old DSL at 1.5 down and .5 up that was subject to slowness.
Could you recommend credible ping testing tools / sites ? Thank you & everyone that replied. p.s. some results from tests, given by google search : min: 35 ms avg: 40.6 ms max: 53 ms median: 40.0 ms jitter: 3.3 ms another test : Ping ms 137 Download Mbps 46.52 Upload Mbps 24.98 Tele2 ( Lithuania ) 90.131.43.213 NaN stars fdcservers.net New York, NY another location : Ping ms 195 Download Mbps 41.18 Upload Mbps 18.19 Tele2 ( Lithuania ) 90.131.43.213 NaN stars AT&T San Francisco, CA Change Server
No. you need to ping the platform's server. On LS trader our IT guys can do this. On Sterling, it is build in and you can see it when you login. You can also choose a server. I'm in NY.
I've been using IB for 11 years. I am happy with them. If you are not trading actively enough to generate a I think it is $15 commissions, you get charged the difference (which happens to me a lot, since I tend to sit on positions for months at a time). Also plan on paying $15 to $25 a month for market data (refundable depending how much you generate in commissions).