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Hi all,
Just checking out the FAPT unofficial forum and found this post that I think may be of interest to you all. I maybe a little long but I would read it. (If I have missed anyone of the list please forward it on.
From one of the developers:
Fapturbo is first real money making robot. I am on forex personally from 2001 and never saw anything like that.
However You should always remember that when you win someone loses on the other side and money does not come from nowhere. And other side will try their best to prevent you from making money. And in our case broker is our “enemy”. Here are the weapons of your broker:
- Spread Size.
By increasing the spread size from normal 3-4 to ridiculous 11-15 during night time without any normal reasons (such as news events) will cause fapturbo to miss opening some trades (fapturbo filters automatically miss trades with invalid spread size) � that�s not a big problem if you miss few trades. However if the spread is increased when the trade is already open that could cause some real troubles to you and prevent from closing the trade correctly.
- Disconnection errors.
By disconnecting your terminal during the time when fapturbo tries to close the trade broker can easily turn your winning trade into loser. That is obvious and we cant do anything about it. And when you ask broker they always have easy excuse �your internet connections sucks, sorry man�… However keep reading�
- OffQuotes/Requotes Errors. Especially exit offquote errors.
Exit [offquotes] problem is a real way how brokers fight against
fapturbo and all profitable systems. I have such problem in different brokers, for example 2 days ago my trade with 15 lot could not close in FXCM for over 1.5 hours (!!) in the profit zone getting ridiculous offquotes errors and finally closed only when it came out from the profit zone to zero profit. Also I heard one guy on fapwinner failed to close his trade and hit stop loss.
WHAT WE CAN DO HERE
We cant do much about it as the decision to open and close the trade is made on the BROKER SIDE and fapturbo or any other trader is just
sending REQUEST to do that but such request can be easily declined if the broker does not like it…
However few things were added in last version 23. Fapturbo is monitoring offquotes erros and if it gets such exit error it tries again with larger slippage. Also one new parameter was added for scalper slippage. Scalper exit slippage equaled to spread size by default however now you can increase it with this parameter.
That’s why trading on real money differs a lot from trading on demo and I never trade any EAs on demo accounts personally as it gives me unrealistic profits that never happen on real money trading.
WHAT YOU CAN DO HERE
If you trade HUGE money you should consider that as a real problem and always be ready to call broker and close such problematic trade manually asap. Do not leave huge money trading unattended carelessly as broker will do his best to prevent you making money throwing away stupid offquotes, disconnection and other “weird” errors. That is a reality of life.
If you trade small deposit offquotes errors are very rare and your possible losses are small and limited by stop loss anyway…
ONE MORE ADVICE
Do not be greedy. Follow safe lot trading so even hitting a stop loss caused by broker dirty tricks will not result your account to be blown away in one trade. Fapturbo Scalper has fixed stop loss as 55-110 depending on pair.