Slippage on news events

Beginner Questions
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Hi

I have recently experienced alot of slippage when trading news events. For example last month on the NFP I experienced 15 points slippage above by stop loss order.

I trade through City Index by spread betting.

I was wondering if there is less slippage when trading forex. As I would imagine this is much more liquid given the size of the forex market vs spread betting.

If I can reduce the slippage on closing trades on news events this would be a huge increase in my profits. I understand there will always be slippage on news events, however I would simply like to know if there is more on forex or spread betting.

Thank you

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You will experience slippage in FX also during major news events…based on the liquidity, slippage can go from 5 pips all the way to 30,40,50 pips and in some rare cases depending on the currency pair you are trading even more…

3

I think that really depends on your broker and their ability as well as liquidity to fill your orders. Have you compared your brokers spreads between FX and Spread Betting?

4

How have you found city index for news release trading?