I am a newbie with no strategy. I hop in and out of the market anyhow. I should have cleared my account by now, but news trading saved me. Since trading news saved me, FXCM switched me to no desk trading without my approval. I just got an email to tell me that. Now I am scared of trading news or leaving a position open with stop order before news time. if I am in a trade with stop order and news come out, my stop order is ignored and I cannot close the position until like 6 mins later. This has happened to me twice. You cannot even enter the market because a message will say the price has changed even when the quote on your platform did not change. I don't know if it is improving because I could close my posiotn manually when price moved against me last week.