Slippage on news events

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

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…

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?

How have you found city index for news release trading?