gosh, i hope this can be helpful to some of you. i may have been hasty in suggesting ibfx could effectively run stops by widening the spread at will. looking at an events calendar, i see that a report was scheduled for release at 3:30 am central time which was expected to have high impact on the gbp. of course, that was exactly when ibfx widened their spread from 4 to 12 and knocked me out of a good trade. i don't have to like the fact that they widen spreads in multiples, but i understand the reasoning. perhaps i can watch the calendar and give my stops more breathing room when these announcements are expected.