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Web site: http://www.tickzoom.com This platform looks far better than MetaTrader 4 for accurate and fast backtesting. MetaTrader 4 can only run in a single CPU core and can't backtest over real tick data without a patch and cumbersome tick data preparation. MetaTrader 5 can use multiple CPU cores, however there is currently no way to import custom historical data. Most new computers have multiple CPU cores, and TickZOOM has been designed to make full use of all CPU cores. Here are some quotes from the TickZOOM vendor: TickZOOM can also backtest multiple strategies over multiple symbols, i.e. "portfolio" backtesting. MetaTrader 4 can only backtest over one symbol at a time. A free trial is available if you email the vendor. Does anyone have it already and can share it?

I used eCardOne recently to buy 3K USD of Liberty Reserve currency, and due to bank fees, eCardOne's own fees, and Liberty Reserve's fees, ended up getting around 70 USD less than that into my Liberty Reserve account. The registration process can take a week or so if you are a first time customer. They have strict security policies.

progressapama, you said all sorts of things during the transition period. So many things changed back and forth; it was chaos and handled poorly by you. Your verbose writing style (a bad attempt at marketing hype claiming how great things will be) made it irritating too. Your term "hyper aggressive scalping" sounded silly and was never accurately defined, i.e. why "hyper" and what is "aggressive"? You promised minimum trade size of 1K base currency, but that only lasted maybe a week or so until you changed the minimum to 5K. That was the final straw for me and I withdrew funds. Your withdrawal procedure sucks too with high fees for any method, including PayPal (4%?) which should be free. There's even a fee for depositing! I won't be returning any time soon until you improve significantly. Your regulation status (still unregulated?) makes you unattractive too; since my trading capital has grown substantially in recent times, I would now hesitate to deposit a good portion of my capital at unregulated brokers. To be fair though, execution did seem better, with much lower or less frequent slippage, though it felt a lot like trading at a market maker broker. How many liquidity providers do you have? I suspect only one, in which case it is indeed almost the same as trading at a market maker broker, with the difference being that JadeFX is a middleman. The "STP" term in this case simply means that orders go straight through to the market maker.

To give you more details, I have highlighted below some of your phrases that indicate why I think your answer was poor: In short, your answer says "I don't know". But instead you said a lot of maybes/I thinks/logic says etc, as if you were trying to appear informative, but failed. If you don't know something regarding your business (Introducing Broker) then you should either find out from your "boss" (Dukascopy) before writing anything, or say you don't know. It just appears that you are trying to provide help here in order to acquire more clients for your business, but your answers are not factual nor informative, and instead are a lot of "maybes". I'm aware that the Dukascopy MetaTrader platform is still in beta, but you could still have answered based on your experience of the beta platform, but judging by your answers, your experience of the Dukascopy MetaTrader platform is either little or none - not enough to answer the following valid questions about spreads: 1. Are spreads any different to spreads on the JForex platform? 2. Are spreads better or worse than at other brokers? I replied because I also wanted to know the answer to these questions. I would also add this question about execution, and I'll give you a chance to answer it: How does order execution duration on the MetaTrader platform compare with execution on the JForex platform? I presume there would be a bridge between the MetaTrader server and the JForex server, so I'm thinking there would be some delay introduced by the bridge. I'm asking you this because you have put yourself forward as a representative for Dukascopy, which means that you should know a lot more than myself and other traders here about Dukascopy.

Re: Dukascopy Metatrader 4 platform As an introducing broker, you should be able to provide a definite answer to this valid question - either yes or no. If you do not know the answer, then you should find out from the actual broker that you represent, instead of saying "maybe", "that's possible", etc. The lack of a definite answer may also show that you do not (or rarely) trade with Dukascopy, and simply earn from rebates instead.

Re: Dukascopy Metatrader 4 platform They are very poor responses. Imagine asking a broker questions and getting answers like ""maybe", "I think so", "that would be logical".

Re: Dukascopy Metatrader 4 platform http://www.dukascopy.com/free_downloads/dc4setup.exeBut I think they require you to register for an account on the web site.

Re: JadeFX and not the losing trades. Such is the behavior of the worst brokers in the industry. They can then expect to be labeled as a scam broker on ForexPeaceArmy and the various discussion forums, including MaXeY's thread on ForexFactory, "Brokers Scams Who delete you profits":http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=95864I hope they don't sink to such depths.

Re: JadeFX I wonder: how they will enforce the rules what the consequences are of breaking the rules if just making a single violating trade (or a few) would get you into trouble

Re: Beamfx anyone ?! They are an introducing broker to CMS UK.

Re: Dukascopy Metatrader 4 platform It does matter because I would want to connect to servers that are owned/managed by Dukascopy and not FXOpen. The IP address of FXOpen's ECN server is 212.147.66.36. The IP address to Dukascopy's (JForex?) server is 194.8.15.159. The Dukascopy MetaTrader terminal is connecting to 212.147.66.36 and not 194.8.15.159. Yes I agree. But it would be even better if FXOpen was completely out of the picture. At the moment they are not.

Re: All About FXCM Ok thanks scarface. I've just opened a real STP FXCM account & will deposit 2K soon. I'm looking forward to finally see the light. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

Re: All About FXCM I am usually quite skeptical and critical about a lot of things in this industry. I also like to play "devil's advocate" and question everything in order to get a wider, deeper and balanced view. I have read a lot of negative things about FXCM. But if you consider that they have between 100K and 150K clients, and then count how many clients have posted negative things on the internet, it would be a tiny percentage. e.g. 1% of 100K is 1000. Usually it's only when people have had a bad experience that they feel compelled to write (i.e. complain), otherwise, when things are Ok, they don't bother. That may be why there are so many bad reviews compared with good reviews. Also, in each of the reviews it's often not clear which account type they are talking about - Micro or STP; they are totally different to each other: Micro has dealing desk and can requote. Also, many of the old reviews could be back when FXCM was primarily a market maker. They did get into trouble and have had to change the way that they operate. Now they are largely an STP broker and don't play with your trades (except maybe in the micro account for which there is a dealing desk). I haven't seen much convincing evidence of all the negative claims. Screen or video captures and logs would help to make the claims more convincing. I'm not saying that all the claims are untrue, as some probably are; I have experienced a lot of similar things (and much worse) at other brokers. But claims without much evidence lack weight. Do their STP platforms actually requote? I thought it's Market Execution, so it should execute at the best available price and not requote. So when you talk of requotes, maybe you are referring to the Micro account or back when FXCM was primarily a market maker. I am not interested in either. I want to know about their STP accounts, especially Active Trader. I have watched the spreads on their standard account and agree that they are crap. I am quite sure that there are much worse brokers than FXCM. Try Global Clearing Group, Sigma Forex and CMC Markets if you want to have a clearer understanding of what truely bad brokers are. The worst brokers that I have had live funded accounts with are CMC Markets, E-Global, Prime4x (and for horrible slippage: OneCorp, and The Colective FX). I was going to open an account with Global Clearing Group but didn't after being lied to by their live chat support. I then fully understood why they won't give login details to their live account until after depositing funds; I don't think FXCM belong to this lowest category of scum brokers as you guys seem to portray.

Re: Dukascopy Metatrader 4 platform But they are using FXOpen's own servers. I would have expected them to use their own servers, but they are not.

Re: All About FXCM When did you guys last use FXCM? I'm wondering whether all the negativity is out-of-date. Did you use the Micro account? How are the STP accounts (i.e. no dealing desk)? MetaQuotes developed the Virtual Dealer plugin, not Boston Technologies. MetaQuotes are the bad guys. MetaTrader itself was basically designed to take money from traders, like rigged slot machines.

Re: Dukascopy Metatrader 4 platform It just connects to FXOpen's servers. Price changes match FXOpen's exactly. Clcik on the bottom right part of the terminal to see "FXOpen DC1" etc.

Re: All About FXCM Has anyone tried FXCM's free VPS?

Re: All About FXCM My interest is with their Active Trader account, which is far different from their other account types. The only disadvantage I see with the Active Trader account is high commisions. The 25K minimum initial deposit is a bit high too, but doable.

Re: All About FXCM If FXCM is garbage then would ATC Brokers be garbage too since they get their data feed from FXCM? People say a lot of good things about ATC Brokers.

Re: All About FXCM You can get the FXCM Active Trader feed through MetaTrader by request to get institutional spreads. Minimum initial deposit is 25K USD. Does anyone have experience with this particular setup? ATC Brokers (highly regarded ECN broker) gets their feed from FXCM, so FXCM's Active Trader feed must be good, right?

If you've read this thread: http://www.indo-investasi.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2164&p=61901 and seen the screen captures that I posted, then you can see how the brokers can make money from our losses by intentionally delaying, slipping, requoting us and moving their own prices so that our stop losses get hit. Here are the two screen captures of the Virtual Dealer plugin: http://i33.tinypic.com/33m69nr.jpg http://i35.tinypic.com/3481zyc.jpg Here's what an official MetaQuotes representative says about the Virtual Dealer MetaTrader server plugin: So if anyone can share the server software and Virtual Dealer plugin then we can examine what goes on at the other end of our trades, in the hope of finding ways to fight back and profit from the brokers' own games. We may also be able to discover ways in which to tailor our trading strategy and style to work around some of the tricks that brokers can do at their end. It looks like Metaquotes have removed all the information about their server software from their web site. I remember reading about all the features it has (e.g. stuff about client profiling to see who has made the most profit, etc).

Re: The Collective FX The minimum monthly fee is 147 USD per month. Their new liquidity provider is Citibank.

Re: The Collective FX I applied for a live account, but am concerned about having to pay a monthly fee. How does TheCollectiveFX compare with JadeFX, ATC Brokers, PFGBest, FXCBS or MB Trading?

Re: CitiBank Fx division now available to MT4 Traders. I think he means Interactive Brokers, at which Citibank would be one of their liquidity providers. I would agree, however Interactive Brokers' minimum trade size for currency trading is 25K USD. If that's too large then I think it would be better to trade through ATC Brokers or MB Trading.

Can anyone share (or point me to where I can download them) any of the platforms listed below, from the book “Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business” by Ernie Chan?: You can download the book here: http://ifile.it/0ridka3/0470284889.rar