Phil Mibbutz
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WS never seems to be mentioned these days. Anyone else notice that at long last they now offer charts?
WS never seems to be mentioned these days. Anyone else notice that at long last they now offer charts?
I take it you're not overwhelmed, CB? Haven't used WS much recently, but my impression was that the 'referred to dealer' delaying tactics were used if you made more than three winning trades in a row. I'm sure they do it all for chariddy, mate...
Well its not true!
I think they are very good....speed of fill is amazingly fast compared with my experience on say Capital Spreads.
When you start winning money worth talking about they will changed tact. You're not beeing red flagged not making enough money to concern them, under the radar so to speak. I can speak from experience I have traded with them and been placed on referred to dealer continuously they would not take me off it, even though I could be in some trade for up to 2 hours, so please don't reply and say I was taking advantage of their slow prices.
When you start winning money worth talking about they will changed tact. You're not beeing red flagged not making enough money to concern them, under the radar so to speak. I can speak from experience I have traded with them and been placed on referred to dealer continuously they would not take me off it, even though I could be in some trade for up to 2 hours, so please don't reply and say I was taking advantage of their slow prices.
If you don't mind me asking -
How many round turns (entry + exit = 1 round turn) per day were you averaging?
Also, at what £ per point value did auto-execution become a problem?
Cheers.
Around 5 to 7 trades, sometimes just 2 good trades in a day. Execution become a problem when trading over 19 pound a point when it went in to the 20s WS would send a red flag on my account...However, I would place a 10 pound trade and scale in up to over 20 quid. Basically WS do not want traders who know how to manage risk.
Around 5 to 7 trades, sometimes just 2 good trades in a day. Execution become a problem when trading over 19 pound a point when it went in to the 20s WS would send a red flag on my account...However, I would place a 10 pound trade and scale in up to over 20 quid. Basically WS do not want traders who know how to manage risk.
How long did your trades last typically?
They have a problem with people who only try to catch slow prices - people who are in a trade literally for seconds, which is not good for WS as they have no time to hedge etc. - people who are merely trying to take advantage of slow prices in the datafeed. These are the people who get taken off auto-execution.
If a persons trades typically last minutes, and they are not a person who is just trying to take advantage of slow prices, but offer good business to WS, they say they have no problem with such people as an orgainisation, and are happy for them to make however many pips profit per week at £100 per pip on full auto-trade execution.
Their account opening process is cumbersome because they require documents to be certified or notarised. That's just archaic. This process is not required if you open an account with, say, Capital Spreads, ODL or GFT. So there are much easier options.
How safe is your money with worldspreads? I have been told that even if your money is in a segregated account, so if a large trader has a huge loss, any spreadbet company who is a market maker, will use the customers funds in the segregated account to help cover the loss, so in fact only £30k is protected under FSA rules, makes you think doesn't it?
For scalping maybe consider looking into currenex with spreadbet wrapper, so you get instant fills with no dealer interaction and can bet up to £1000pp in some cases, all Tax free.
If you have lots of money don't waste your time with spreadbetting companies, go either to the cash fx companies or go to marketindex.com from ABN/RBS instead. They are more secure than a tiny peanut like Woldspreads. Marketinex.com have reasonable index spreads (bad for fx) for go to mbtrading/EFX for forex (less than one pip sometimes). I asked Worldspreads and basically they leave you alone under around 5 quid a point (good for practice) - then watch out the dreaded dealer is in there!!