Does anyone have any recent experience with Tickmill or PFD from New Zealand?? They both seem to have very low spreads… I’m really interested to hear from people who traded with PFD nz. PLease share your experiences.
I am also trading with Octafx, I have 2 accounts – 1 is with Mt4 and other cTrader, I usually prefer long term with Mt4 while with cTrader like you said it’s pretty handy for scalping, as we are aware that this is a ECN platform, so that obviously means no tricks been involved where. Now I don’t worry too much over spread at least till it’s under 1 pip which it is on most occasions, so yeah definitely one of the best for scalping.
Has anybody heard of Phillipcapital as I read they are in the uk now as well, I went to the website and they have mt4, spread seem good like eurusd from 0.6 but has anyone tried them out? I am currently trading with activtrades as good on execution and service but spread is high.
i trade at tickmill and i can say their spreads are like what they tell to you, sometimes i have slipages or spread widening , but it is normal rite
abut PFD NZ i never use them, but i heard from my friends they are good too and has online for years
For scalping only, I prefer to go with CMTrading. Since the spread is very low with them, it goes Easy for me to trade scalping.
There’s 19 pages of this thread and (as far as I can see from a quick read-through), nowhere in the whole thread has the single key issue actually been addressed …
[B][U]WHOM ARE YOU SCALPING[/U]?[/B]
No [I][U]genuine[/U][/I] broker minds you scalping [B][U]the market[/U][/B].
A “broker” is someone who executes on his clients’ behalf trades in an underlying market (in this case it’s thew interbank market) to which the clients don’t themselves have access. A broker isn’t financially involved in the outcome of his clients’ trades, and has absolutely nothing to lose at all, if the clients are successfully scalping [U][B]the market[/B][/U].
(On the contrary, he [U]likes[/U] it, because that’s a good client who pays a lot of commissions and will stay there.)
[I][U]No[/U][/I] “counterparty market-maker”, on the other hand (that’s someone who’s pretending to be a broker but actually holding the other side of his clients’ positions and trading against them, while also holding the clients’ funds and both making up and interpreting all the rules governing the transactions), will tolerate [I]successful scalping indefinitely[/I], because in this case it isn’t the market that’s being scalped: it’s [B][U]them[/U][/B].
[I]It [U]really is[/U] as simple as this[/I]. 
Although it’s your choice, but I would not be staying with any broker that has slippage, it’s something surely not acceptable from my side. I have suffered quite a bit in scalping with not knowing what slippage actually was, but now having awareness of it, I am not going to leave it. At the moment I trade with Octafx which is ECN Company, but that’s not it I have even selected cTrader to confirm clearance from any slippage, as scalping for me means putting massive put on the line and one bad moves is = blow up account.
I don’t know why brokers don’t like you scalp? Are they trading against you?
My understanding is that brokers need to hedge their positions for scalpers in order to avoid losing money from these this type of trading and if you do scalping trading, you have either slow execution because it has to be manually executed by external liquidity provider or you have slippage as the broker manually execute scalping trades. I have a friend who works for one of the brokers who explained to me this.
Its amazing that this thread has been going for 7 years I was thinking to myself how much the market and brokers has changed since this first post.
Today, you can find brokers that run try STP or ECN and will not have any problems to accept scalping as long as they dont keep the orders on their dealing desk. I suffered for a few years finding a proper stp.
I was lucky when I found a cheap ecn account at Yadix with minimum deposit of $500, since then I’ve found consistent execution and good performance
any suggestion for new broker for 2015 for scalping
you will need a broker with tight spreads.
I tried Tradeview Forex because people say they have good spreads.
Also FXCM have nice spreads but I don’t feel good with their platform.
Oanda has fair spreads. So I guess you’ll have to check and try as many demo accounts as you can and then choose the right for you.
I have contact
ICmarkets & Exness ahve a good spread too
Hi Osanograham,
FXCM recognizes that everyone has different preferences when it comes to their trading platform. That’s why we offer multiple platform options. If you like FXCM spreads but don’t like the Trading Station platform, then maybe you will like MT4, NinjaTrader, Mirror Trader or ZuluTrade. We offer all those platforms as well. If you need help choosing between those platforms, then this guide can help you.
Also, so that we can improve our services, I would appreciate your feedback on what in particular you didn’t like about Trading Station.
Thanks,
Jason
In my opinion, every regulated ecn broker who is honest and offer wide range of products, platform and competitive spread should be the one where you should go for scalping though it is not an easy task for everyone to scalp.
My oppo said smth about one forex co, don’t remember the name. The registration’s pretty simple, then comes the verification process. Allowed advisors trading ‘n’ scalping, spread fixed or floating, don’t u know such a company?
Mb, Roboforex, they have tradable bonus of 20%, instant auto output, binary options -the pros 4 me. But not easy to make output on other paysyst., it’s not open to a personal bank card. Now think 'bout multiple affiliate program…
IMHO, the safeguard is quite effective. Use the syst, never had troubles, no platform hangings, though heard there were first, in the beginnin’ of 2015. Like deposit bonus - to 115%.
FreshForex has low spreads on ECN, for EURUSD it is zero pips. i think it’s a good choice.