Hi,
You can set up every 15-20 pips intervals.
Regarding brokers’ manipulation of prices:
Yes, brokers present different prices to different customers. Now, I invite everyone that has different computers with different customers, not your name in both but different live accounts from different people.
The task is to place one order in each account in different direction, in other words, a buy in one and a sell in the other. You must click at the same time in both computers. Then watch what happens. Then tell me if both prices in both accounts behave the same.
The next thing you must know is that ALL brokers do not place your order in the exchange. They get many orders from customers that are in a close range, then the broker places only one order in the exchange; in fact your order can be in a "package" a day later. So, believe me, you are trading within the broker´s system and not in the exchange.
People think that if a broker presents different prices to different clients is committing fraud but they are not. It is totally legal because they are market makers. That means they are making the prices available to clients and they can present any price they wish.
As a money manager I have to research and learn all these things so I can make the right choices at the right time for my clients. It is my duty to find out all the tricks out there brokers have to take your money. They are there specifically for that, spreads is a bonus to them, the real money is the one you put into an account with them. That money is theirs and they have to do all they can to keep it that way, it is not your money, which is one of the reasons that you lose money with them. The market itself is not hard. Try trading the exchange and you will find out that you earn a lot more money with then than with a broker.
If anyone has a lot of money to trade, do not trade with brokers, trade with the exchange. This is what the brokers do because prices are met, you just offer your price and there is somebody out there that will pay your price. The person (company) that informs you who wants to pay your price gets a commission and that is why they are so eager to bring it to you. With brokers is another story, you place your order and the broker decides when to pay for your price depending on the conditions in the exchange market. This is why they play with you with the prices. They can wait any time they want, even to not present the price to you at all. This is what they do when they tell you that your order could not be filled out due to volatility for instance.
I want to emphasize about the prices in the exchange and the prices with a broker. You can find a price for a specific pair in the exchange to have a range of 200 pips and that is normal. In other words, in the exchange you can have the value of a currency with a difference of 200-250 pips between the banks that are offering to trade with you.
That is why when you ask for a price there is almost always somebody there that will match your price. With brokers you don´t have the broker matching your price, you have to wait until the broker presents the price you want to you, this is when you close a trade. You see the difference? In the exchange somebody comes to you to match your price. With a broker, you wait until the broker presents the price you want to close the trade, this is why if the broker does not present the price you want to close your trade, you get stuck with a loss.