DislikedHere's a thread giving Oanda a round of applause for their platform stability during the mess in the US today: http://www2.oanda.com/cgi-bin/msgboa...;f=17;t=005287Ignored
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DislikedHere's a thread giving Oanda a round of applause for their platform stability during the mess in the US today: http://www2.oanda.com/cgi-bin/msgboa...;f=17;t=005287Ignored
DislikedI scalp all morning with Oanda, 30-50 Rt's with some 100-200 individual entries.
Oanda's manipulation certainly helps my P&L.Ignored
DislikedXaron my friend...
Oanda must build a statue in your honour.
So many years and so many kind words.Ignored
DislikedI can confirm that.
I have been scalping Oanda for 3 years and it does work
satisfactorily.
Though my main broker is IB, and I prefer to trade with
IB, Oanda still is a good solution.Ignored
DislikedSo you are not ready to be dependent with oanda 100% as IB is your MAIN, can elaborate what is the exact reason for that, or why oanda is not your MAINIgnored
DislikedI have traded on ECNs and have seen much higher spreads than that, but the difference is that they are usually momentary, whereas with OandA these spreads are FIXED just like their regular spreads, so you are stuck once they are set.Ignored
DislikedAre you trying to say that when Oanda's quotes widen during news, they stay fixed at that spread?
Please tell me you aren't saying this.Ignored
Dislikedwhat I'm saying is that they stay fixed until they decide to change it back to another fixed spread.
Their spreads are always "fixed" -- OandA is a market maker, not an ECN. Therefore their spreads are always fixed at where they want them to be. Then they change the spread at their whim.
Before news they fix their spreads at a certain level and then after news they decide the volatility has subsided they re-fix the spread at another level.
A typical scenario goes like this: let's say you enter a trade at a certain price with a 20...Ignored
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I have traded on ECNs and have seen much higher spreads than that, but the difference is that they are usually momentaryIgnored
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I really dont understand why there are still noobs choose to become a Retail trader that lose 99% money trades via Retail trading platformIgnored