We have investigated your case and cay say that the price movements at those night times actually existed.



You may not see the same price movement in every broker as some brokers applies a cap at rollover times at night between sometime 23:58-00:05 MT4 time or cuts the trading session in order not to have such drops or spikes.



Likewise, we have decided to cut the trading session to protect our clients from such movements at night; the updated trading session is going to be 23:59-00:03.



We can see that your orders got triggered at 00:02 usually.



Please let us know if you ever witness the same drop or spike for the symbol EURGBP

It continues to happen but are they right that they are also blameless and that this is true price? I dont see the same PA on trading view for example

I can't comment on the specific case - what I will say is that the charts do look dubious. That kind of anomalous spikes should point to errors in data, not actual trades, but this is my experience in futures.

Maybe someone with a wider experience, even with spreadbetting brokers, can chime in.

I do not have customers who do spread betting, but it seems to be considered as gambling in the UK and hence no tax. But, this also could allow the broker to make its own markets(?). The above customer should find a legitimate outfit in FX. At Optimus FX division we can help.

Thanks Matt - yes, the reason I was asking for a more expert opinion (such as yours) is that I have always seen spread betting as a bit shady. As you suggested, the brokers that do spreadbetting take the opposite side of the trader's position, as I understand it - which indicates that, when thing go wrong for the trader, someone else benefits from that, and that someone else happens to be the spread betting broker.

One of the many reasons why I tend to stick to futures is the lack of the model above in the futures market.