Recent content by arcticpolar

here is the tick chart... I can't even fit it in one screen. so if this spread is 11.8... If I had 50k buying USD. It still shouldn't have liquidated my positions.

Agreed. As least it might gives more support that the spread wasn't widened just to liquidate my positions. Or else... Brokers could just Widen a lot of spreads to liquidate those who can receive possible margin calls. No dealing desk... I asked for one... It wasn't given. I received a Chinese...

Yea I know I have been risky on my trading. Are you saying It was just that I was liquidated because of my management of risk and none on fxcm's part? Well it was going that direction. Im not saying divergence give you a 100% certainity. Neither does any of the other indications. That's not what...

Sure... I understand greece elections, eu summit and maybe GDP announcement might be great events to be one sided. But CAD retail sales? Alright I guess every event... Calculate a spread of 50 above before acting. You can explain the "price that didn't exist in another way." for one if I didn't...

Yeah pretty much is a scam to me. spread for USD/CAD became 12... from the normal 2.5-2.8. It was because of the CAD retail sales news. never seen 12 spread in my life. Normally it gives 5-7 even in Asia trading times or big news but no... 12 sounds like a better number. there's no maximum...

FXCM threw me over to FXCM asia... hong kong? and gave me a representative that said. sure your audit is done. it shows there's no technical problems. you hedged it not so great, so therefore it's gone. if i buy something for $15 I give you a $100 I should get $85 dollars back. Shouldn't I be...

I'm constantly worrying so I tried to replicate a similar situation in a demo but another problem arose in the demo. when it's hedged, the used margin was at $1,600 which should have been at zero. I'm getting more and more pessimistic by the moment. this gave me more and more doubts. I went to...

I'm constantly worrying. So I decided to replicate a similar situation in a demo. even worst... the demo account has a bug. I sell 400 lots of AUD/USD at random price.. then buy 400 lots of AUD/USD at the next price I can click on. seeing what would be my available margin. It shows I'm using...

Jason, I have read your post in other's people's threads. I read the link you gave. If the margin requirement was reduced it would give me a even greater available margin. I thought FXCM UK was already at 0.5% margin requirement. I'm not at ease right now because everything is uncertain. I...

I'll read about your posts in other's people's threads. First thank you for your reply. It wasn't even after a weekend. I know during Asian's trading time it would be big spreads but t was very close to New york trading time in 30 minutes. that's a lot of spread to widen to lose ~100 pips...

FXCM - scam or not? but submitted an audit report. Well just to start off I lost $8,000 to forex trading, my broker was FXCM. I like their no dealing desk execution and it seems like a great forex company. Probably due to my lack of risk management I lost these $8,000 but the prices were very...