im using a demo account on Oanda and this thing keeps happening which wasnt hapening before
when i send an order for a trade (either long or short), the damn order ends up a few pips away from where its suppose to be … this leads to my profit being in the negative from the second i open the trade
pic below will illustrate what im talking about if youre having trouble understanding
[QUOTE=“Mark17;512189”]im using a demo account on Oanda and this fukkin retarded thing keeps happening which wasnt hapening before
when i send an order for a trade (either long or short), the damn order ends up a few pips away from where its suppose to be … this leads to my profit being in the negative from the second i open the trade
pic below will illustrate what im talking about if youre having trouble understanding
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Is it the bid/ask spread per chance?
can you please explain what you mean?
this is literally the first day im using a demo account and im not sure exactly what you mean
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can you please explain what you mean?
this is literally the first day im using a demo account and im not sure exactly what you mean[/QUOTE]
I figured lol… It’s the difference in price that you can buy and sell a pair for.
Google it or go through the first few lessons in the babypips school.
How else do you think a broker pays for their services?
There are two prices at any given time. You buy at ask, and sell at bid. So you’ll always be in the hole to start because the first few pips go to the broker regardless of you winning or losing.
it wasnt doing this when i first started using the demo
2.2 pips… that would be the spread. When you execute an order it is placed with the spread in place first which you have to move out of before moving into profit. That’s how it works with about any broker that uses a spread.
this wanst an issue i was having when i first downloaded the platform … it just started happening out of nowhere
[QUOTE=“Mark17;512208”]this wanst an issue i was having when i first downloaded the platform … it just started happening out of nowhere[/QUOTE]
It was something that has and it is something that always will occur… You just didn’t notice it before because price was probably moving to quickly