It seems that most brokers do this. I find that they seem to do this most at precisely the time that news releases happen, especially at the major ones. Feel lucky that you are not with cmsfx who disconnect you and do not allow you to put buy or sell orders 10 minutes before a major news release. I have since then changed broker to interbanksfx. There I have found that I don't get cut off but at precisely the time of a major news release the program freezes for about 1 - 3 minutes which is very frustrating. I have confronted interbanks with this and they tell me that the metatrader 3.8 has a more stable platform. My question then is what is the point of upgrades if it just goes backwards?
My personal thoughts are that the brokers are in cahoots with each other and are doing this so that you can't make the maximum profit from the quick trade.

JTH