Thread: Has anybody experienced stops being hit more frequently?

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The ckskers can't hit my stops cuz I simply use mental ones. I have an out of range cease placed although the trade begins but will transfer in it to get stopped when I struck a reduction limit.

No, what they do to me is more heavy handed than cease hunting: they simply glitch up the platform to the extent that it will become hard to trade.

You can't win I tells ya.

I really don't think about this as paranoia. I think it prudent to be safe with your money regardless of whether broker is out for you or not. I do believe they have their suggestions. With that said you can play games with them too in the event that you have multiple/sub accounts. You can put orders in opposite directions and move the stops around to lure it to the others accept profit. It's tricks like people that get them to resort to messing with the platform as eluded to. Fantastic luck.

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I don't think about it as paranoia. I think it prudent to be secure with your money regardless of whether broker is out for you personally or not. I really do believe that they have their tricks. With that said you can play games with them too in the event that you have accounts. You are able to put orders in reverse directions and proceed the stops around to bait it to others accept profit. It's tricks like people that make them resort to messing with the platform as eluded to. Good luck.

Yeah, I am only beginning to believe they don't need me scalping. That I had been expanding my account and I did not begin with a equilibrium. I am guessing they did not really care but today that my account is becoming bigger it is beginning to annoy them. Might have to change my egy and exchange time frames.

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Yeah, I am just beginning to believe they do not need me scalping. That is how I had been expanding my account and that I did not start out with a balance. I am guessing they did not really care but now that my account is becoming bigger it is beginning to frighten them. Trade time frames and might have to switch my egy .

Of course bucket shops do not want traders to scalp as its hard to counter the party in time.

Awesome, you've never told us what period you primarily trade? I feel that bit of info can inform us what going wrong.

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Of course bucket shops do not want traders to scalp as its difficult to counter the party in time.

, you have never told us exactly what timeframe you primarily trade? I believe that bit of info can tell us exactly what going wrong.

I usually use 1H, 30M and 5M time frames to draw out my charts and search for nice confluence. I use 1M for entrances when price reaches these areas. I usually play with the bounce off these areas for 5-10 pips which was very dependable when I was trading smaller. I was using higher leverage therefore these 5-10 pips would give returns. My ceases would usually be about two pips. Like I said, when I was trading lot sizes I'd be able to knock these trades out all day. Stops would get struck around 25% of the time and usually if they have hit it was a rest of the support/resistance level and price would continue to proceed past. I've been climbing up my place size as my account has increased and employing exactly the egy it seems like ceases are being struck 60-70percent of the time. Price breaks the amounts on my charts high enough to take out my ceases and then proceeds to bounce back as I had originally anticipated it would. I am not along for the ride.

Hey amazing, 2pip stops are mad in this market guy. You seemingly had something which was working and it's not. Finest advice is to attempt to get using a tier two PB broker (a prime of a prime) who provides an institutional ECN platform for example fxtrades CNX, do not waste your time with viking CNX bullshit like FXDD and the likes offer because of their institutional platform. You can find this for about 20k where it used to be 50k deposit. You need that type of broker using a egy like this, as you are going to be getting amazing execution and you'll be seeing interbank pricing.

In case you can not do that, perhaps this is an idea...

Don't go in high leverage on the very first transaction, go in smaller and also give yourself more space, once it goes against you to where your stop'would be', add more or wait for it to turn around then add greater in... in other words, build your position. If you were going for instance for pips, split your position up to 3 10:1 positions.

If this doesn't work, then it is obviously your egy was never a good one.

Your broker is not targeting your stops personally unless it is a f'n hack shop. They may aim aggregate stops whenever they can in certain situations based on the model... maybe if they can pop 1-2 ticks at all although I've seen pictures of some really shady shit, they were clearly hardcore buckets, and probably from business. I trade with Oanda and that I don't see anything mad occurring the regular f'ed up forex crap pulled by dealers and major players which is why I love this market!

Like fool said, if I was still doing tight exits such as this, the only thing I would be worried about is if they glitched my feed... so I also suggest you get another feed to look at, something neutral like prorealtime.com... see if they're seriously messing with you, and if they're, it is possible to show them mess up and they will almost certainly tell you it was a server issue or whatever and return, if not, get the hell out of there.

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Hey awesome, 2pip stops are crazy in this market man. You had something which worked and it's not. Finest advice would be to attempt to get using a tier 2 PB broker (a prime of a prime) who offers a institutional ECN platform for example fxtrades CNX, do not waste your time with viking CNX bullshit such as FXDD and the likes offer because of their institutional platform. You can find this for about 20k now, where it was minimum deposit. You really need that type of broker using a scalping egy like this, as you are going to be receiving amazing execution...

Thanks man, I appreciate the information. I was actually looking at interactive brokers as I've heard good things about them. Not sure about their trading platform. Downloaded a demo of it and it turned out to be a mess. You're right though. Whatever the reason might be doesn't really matter I suppose. What was functioning doesn't seem to be working so I will need to change things up.

No problem, btw, I understand some folks scalping with IB they're fine, only thing I really don't enjoy is there commission rates for that fashion... but it is doable.

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The ckskers can not hit my ceases cuz I simply utilize psychological ones. I have an out of range cease put when the trade begins but will move in it to get stopped once I hit a reduction limitation.

No, what they do to me is much more heavy handed than cease hunting: they simply glitch up the platform to the extent that it will become hard to trade.

You can not win I tells ya.

I dont get it, they proceed price out of the real price... isnt that free arbitrage cash for u?

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like idiot said, if I was still doing tight scalping like that, the one thing I'd worry about is if they glitched my feed... so I suggest you get another feed to check at, something neutral like prorealtime.com... determine if they are seriously messing with you, and if they are, it is possible to show them there mess up and they will most likely tell you it was a server issue or whatever and take it back, otherwise, get the hell out of there.

It is not glitching the feed, but its just gumming up the platform so it doesn't work. Certain essential functions don't operate, platform freezes during gambling, etc..

Attempt putting a $100/pip commerce in a scalping egy with a massive out-of-range stop that you mean to transfer then all of a sudden the platform is unresponsive or moves offline completely. Bucket broker can automate that also...

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you Aren't after what I have said very well I ain't got time to Get an english lesson

oh u aint the thread starter, I was asking the thread starter, humble apology