You noticed that too huh?

yup. MBT cannot make MT4 demo right, but from the beginning they have commissions at the higher end.

it would be Ok if i could see that my EA on MBT demo (with all its ECN "bells & whistles") outperforms other brokers' demo with high margin. but i cannot even run MBT demo for a few days without an issue. for example, today MBT terminal didn't connect at all (about 7AM EST) where 7 other demos on my pc connected and traded just fine

so i stopped my MBT testing. it doesn't worth an effort now.

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As soon as I had my account approved by them I received an email with the following statement:

"Please note the transactions you are entering into with MB Trading Futures are not traded on an exchange. Therefore, under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, your funds may not receive the same protections as funds used to margin or guarantee exchange-traded futures and options contracts, which receive a priority in bankruptcy. Since that same priority has not been given to funds used for off exchange forex trading, if MB Trading Futures becomes insolvent and you have a claim for amounts deposited or profits earned on transactions with MB Trading Futures, your claim may not receive a priority. Without a priority, you are a general creditor and your claim will be paid, along with the claims of other general creditors, from any money still available after priority claims are paid. Even customer funds that MB Trading Futures keeps separate from its own operating funds may not be safe from the claims of other general and priority creditors."

I asked customer support about that and was told that's the case for Forex accounts only as that's an unregulated market (NOT the case with stocks). It sounds like anyone would have to be pretty dumb to accept that without seeing their financial statements, but since they're a privately held company they don't and won't show that to us (I sure tried, though!).

Do you guys know if that "likely the last to be paid = the shaft" policy also holds for other ECN companies abroad?

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