Metaquotes demo was off as well.

Its back on now though. Came on line about an hour ago.

I was out of the market at the time though.

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Did you also notice they charged a 50 pip spread on the GBPUSD today!

Thursday 15 min before the US open I was about to open a trade but say the spread of 6 pips on the EURUSD, so I emilid them as to why, When I traded Futures my broker never raised the commission when news came out.
The responce from FXDD is below




Due to breaking news that came out early in London the market has been very volatile.



Thank You,





Robert Patino

Customer Support

75 Park Place, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10007

Toll-free #: 1.866.367.3933

Fax: 212.937.3845

www.fxdd.com

Robert.Patino@fxdd.com

I don't know about correlation. I had both open this morning during NFP. Made a nice trade on FXDD and saw the lost connection. However, the connection continued at IBFX. They're definitely not correlated.

I've seen IBFX go down a lot in the past.

FXDD must have been having some technical difficulties.

Do they know that what they (IBFX and FXDD) do will be discussed on these forums? Yes, but I don't think they care. As of right now, IBFX and FXDD must still be making money. I think they are doing the cut and run thing. Take your profits, close down the business and head out somewhere else or pop up again under a new name. Hell, it's probably legal. If things get to bad, they'll just close down the business and you may or may not get your money from them. I guess it depends how much they may have lost.

I'm just speculating here so I don't know but what else could a broker with that many disconnections and errors do in the end ? If you , engage one of their live operators in a discussion they really seem to take on the attitude of just not caring. That tells me that they have a plan B already in the works.

BS!

For the past 3 weeks or so, FXDD has been having tech issues with the MT platforms. Why do I know this, because I've been trading left and right during all of the sessions (mainly London/Euro into the uS open) and they've had issues with servers and scripts and what have you, all the technical jargon that I don't really understand. What I do know is that every single time I have called to get answers, they have made me whole again 100%, without question or hassle.

I was not in the market during NFP, so I can't comment specifically on that.

To the person who posted that FXDD had "10 times more complaints" on that forexbastards.com site, you are an obvious idiot, as you can't even read. Most of those posts said that they were a decent or honest or good broker that although had some issues, would be used again by each reviewer.

I will be calling my contacts at FXDD to get what the story was on Friday morning and will be happy to post that here.

As written in an email from Tom O'Reilly to me, his quoted words were:

"You will never be asked to leave on account of profitability - it makes no difference to us. With the low success rate in this industry, it is always nice to see a fresh light of winners amongst the rest of the crowd."

Tom is the Senior VP of Sales and has always done everything in his power to help me and anyone else i send to him as best as he can.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - THOSE WHO TRADE THE NEWS SPECIFICALLY ON A RETAIL PLATFORM ARE BOUND TO GET SCREWED BECAUSE THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN!!!

If you're going to trade the news, do it on an ECN or through the CME with the futures. Hell, intraday margins are as low as $500 for 1 standard contract, which is higher leverage than most Spot brokers give, ie with 100:1 on cable you'd be putting up nearly 2 grand at today's rates.

The bottom line is, FXDD isn't a scumbag company and I'll continue to do business with them until I have a good reason not to do so. My only complaint is the way that sometimes they shift the price and/or don't update it as quickly as others, but this is an advantage if you know how to exploit it.

I have popped into different forex forums for months and during NFP the same results have happened (though not necessarily with FXDD) this is nothing new. I personally choose to never trade during NFP but everyone needs to do what is congruent with their own well thought out trading plan. However if I were going to trade during NFP it certainly would not be thru an MT broker/platform, time and time again this happens so why bang your head against the wall. I currently have an account with FXDD and I have no complaints. And if you read forexbastards reviews of different brokers the majority of brokers have SOME complaints, the one with the least complaints is probably Oanda and not everyone gave them 5 stars.

good to know

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Anybody here experiencing FXDD frequent freezing? This really affects EA trading. Take a look at attached..14 minutes difference. Its REALLY time to change Broker

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I have found that this occurs with a great many brokers including North Finance of which i'm testing on for a while. There will be up to 5 minutes of time of which the bars do not refresh. It's really no surprise -- when you look at the brokers and how "professional" they are -- none meet any high standard.

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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