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I have forwarded you the email address and contact information. I'm use to interactive brokers, until they ceased trading Forex.. I do have some contract/fees question. But I'll wait till things are hopefully resolved.
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Hi Magiklair,

You mentioned you already reached out to NinjaTrader. If you require further assistance, please feel free to send me a private message with your mom's contact details including the email address we have on file for her account application. I am help with the setup of this account from the FXCM side, but don't want you to have to duplicate any steps if NinjaTrader is already following up for you.

If you have questions about our services at FXCM please send me a Private Message.
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Filled out the FXCM appl. to opening acct thru NinjaTrader's site. Spoke to my rep yesterday (Kevin) and he said FXCM will pay for my wire transfer fee I just need to show them the bill my bank charges me. Off to a good start. Happy.

Ron


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I'm opening an Active Trader account which has No Deal Desk and anonymous executions as well as tight spreads.*

What I really want is two-step authentication for account login. But in the mean time I'm developing an elaborate password iteration procedure ....lol.

I'm only swing trading FX with pretty wide stops. And only on the majors + 2 or 3 others.

I guess they have a group assigned to the Active Traders group to somehow help???

*I will be posting my experiences.

Ron

Hi Ron,

With Active Trader, a dedicated team guides you to the most useful services at FXCM. Your Relationship Manager (Kevin) can help you find the technologies and custom trading solutions that best suit your needs. You also get a dedicated back-office team to oversee your account, and as you've already noted, one of the benefits of this account type is free bank wire transfers.

If you have questions about our services at FXCM please send me a Private Message.
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Jason Rogers View Post
Hi Ron,



With Active Trader, a dedicated team guides you to the most useful services at FXCM. Your Relationship Manager (Kevin) can helps you find the technologies and custom trading solutions that best suit your needs. You also get a dedicated back-office team to oversee your account, and as you've already noted, one of the benefits of this account type is free bank wire transfers.



Nice to know. Also glad and appreciate the help offered by you guys.

Turns out my bank , due to my acct type, does not charge me a bank wire fee. So that's cool and no need for more busy work submitting bill and such.

Looks like wire transfer is all done on my end now too.

Ron

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IzhakHaim View Post
My problem with the FX brokers is:

"So with accounts less than $5K, you are taking the other side of the trade-meaning you are the counter party, therefore we trade against FXCM and our limit orders/SL,TP are all exposed to your trading desk, correct?
That is correct."

In fairness, the full text of my previous response addresses your concerns in more detail:


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That is correct.

For Mini accounts, we provide dealing desk (DD) execution. On the DD model, we will face market risk as a result of entering into trades with clients. Because of this risk, FXCM needs to implement certain restrictions during news events. The typical 2-5 pip minimum distance from current market rate for stop and limit orders on DD accounts could increase to upwards of 10 pips. Note that No Dealing Desk (NDD) accounts with FXCM have no such restrictions regarding order placement.

Additionally, we may take steps to mitigate the risk arising from market making more effectively by transferring your underlying account to our NDD offering. For example, Mini accounts with equity greater than 20k are automatically converted to Standard accounts with NDD execution.

That means, we don't have to resort to the dealer intervention practices (re-quotes and excessive spread widening particularly during news events) which can occur with DD-only brokers, and you can have confidence in trading your FXCM account regardless of the account type you choose.



IzhakHaim View Post
I only trade currency futures.

This is not an apples-to-apples comparison. FXCM provides No Dealing Desk (NDD) forex execution to all Standard accounts (5k minimum) and Active Trader accounts (25k minimum). We also provide DD execution to Mini accounts ($50 minimum). This provides new traders with the opportunity to trade FX with a small initial investment that would not be possible with futures. With E-mini Euro FX Futures, the minimum trade size for one contract (62,500 euro) requires you to risk $6.25 per pip. By contrast, FXCM lets you trade one micro lot (1,000 euro) of EUR/USD and risk as little as 10 cents per pip. That's 60 times less than in the futures market.


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Futures market registered and regulated.

FXCM is registered with and regulated by the CFTC and NFA, the same bodies that oversee futures trading in the US. In compliance with NFA rules regarding Price Slippage and Price Re-quoting that were finalized in 2012, FXCM LLC provides daily trade reports to the NFA which monitors and supervises FXCM LLC's activity including information on the price where all client orders are filled and the corresponding price where those orders are offset with our liquidity providers.


All of FXCM's global trading entities including FXCM Australia and FXCM UK execute client rolling spot forex transactions as a riskless principal with FXCM LLC, so the same execution standards are applied for all of our clients worldwide. There are no re-quotes at FXCM, and all our clients around the world can benefit from positive slippage whenever it's available. The latest execution stats from January 1, 2015 through March 31, 2016 showed the following:
  • 78.71% of all orders had NO SLIPPAGE.
  • 12.77% of all orders received positive slippage.
  • 8.52% of all orders received negative slippage.
  • 50.2% of all limit and limit entry orders received positive slippage.
  • 39.9% of all stop and stop entry orders received negative slippage.

This includes data from both the DD execution we provide to Mini accounts and the NDD execution we provide to Standard and Active Trader accounts.


IzhakHaim View Post
The currency moves is similar to the cash market but without the above disadvantage-some times rigged market.

With futures and interbank markets, high frequency trading can impact quality of execution. It's a speed race at the institutional level. Institutional customers compete with each other to gain the slightest advantage. ex. HFT’s placing trades in microseconds. This creates a very predatory trading environment where mistakes for liquidity providers are costly. Thus the safer route for liquidity providers is to quote smaller trade sizes at wider prices to manage the risk of being picked off.

By contrast, with FXCM's NDD model, liquidity providers can make more money with a lower risk of being picked off, while at the same time giving better pricing to our retail clients. It's important to understand the mechanics of how trading styles at the institutional level and retail level differ and how this differentiation allows our liquidity providers to offer favorable pricing conditions for FXCM clients.


Our clients receive excellent pricing and execution because liquidity providers are only allowed to be price makers (not price takers) on our retail client stream, and only a retail client can take a price from a liquidity provider. Liquidity Provider A is not able to take a price from Liquidity Provider B through FXCM. This gives our liquidity providers the ability to make a market based on quality of price and liquidity rather than speed to protect against being picked off by predatory trading from other liquidity providers.

If you have questions about our services at FXCM please send me a Private Message.
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Wow that was fast!

Account is totally ready for trading. Completed the wire transfer at my bank today at around 2:00pm Chicago time and the money is there ready to go as of an hour ago (4:45pm CT). As well as all documents being approved.

Ron


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 IzhakHaim 
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Blash,

Good luck. What you going to trade?

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IzhakHaim View Post
Blash,



Good luck. What you going to trade?



Just the majors and commodity pairs:

EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CHF
AUD/USD, USD/CAD, NZD/USD

Swing trading them. For example on the EUR/USD

Short around the red arrow if I can get a close on the daily bar at this area with targets of the ellipses and green arrow.

Ron


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Hi Magiklair,

You mentioned you already reached out to NinjaTrader. If you require further assistance, please feel free to send me a private message with your mom's contact details including the email address we have on file for her account application. I am help with the setup of this account from the FXCM side, but don't want you to have to duplicate any steps if NinjaTrader is already following up for you.

Thanks I think the account is almost set up now. We just have to send a wire to fund it.

– – –

My suggestion would be to make some changes so others don't run into the same problem I had. Perhaps the webpage could redirect from FXCM to Ninja Trader. Because right now it's not real clear. Thanks everyone for your help!

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Thanks I think the account is almost set up now. We just have to send a wire to fund it.

– – –

My suggestion would be to make some changes so others don't run into the same problem I had. Perhaps the webpage could redirect from FXCM to Ninja Trader. Because right now it's not real clear. Thanks everyone for your help!

Thanks for the update, Magiklair, and for your feedback on our website. I have shared it with our web developers.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

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Mi recommendation, no enter in the spot Market never. Search in google: forex, spot market, scam, fraud, account audits, the bussines of the brokers of spot market is take the money traders .

I am profesional in advertising and I can only say that analyzing the type of advertising they use, is their intention is to deceive

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