RE: SLM problem
Update.... Reply received from my last email to SLM. This guy is unbelievable!
"MY PLATFORM"??? I think he means the one I downloaded from SLM?
Hello
This is Paul and I wrote the previous email.
I am sorry if we were talking over each other, but you were not listening to me, and I was trying to help, which is why I called you.
It is not our fault you are experiencing problems. Our servers are fine.
The fact that you have other accounts with other brokers with no problems is good, so do I.
I had no problem using FMT today, but then I do not have an issue with MY connection or MY platform.
The issue is YOUR platform or the EA installation on it.
Whether that is the EA directly or the EA conflicting with it or just some glitch with your MT4 platform is difficult to say.
But hopefully a reinstallation will solve this problem.
Regards
Paul
SLM
The tone of his email is congruent with most SLM communication! Thanks to these jokers I've decided to go for an ECN broker. Do I care that I'm no longer trading tax-free? Nope. After "that" price feed freeze at "that" crucial time and the one occasion where my EA was actually stopped
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At the risk of forum readers sucking on some eggs, I have a few points
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I don't see myself making much more than 10k profit this year so spreadbetting with SLM (using FMT) is pointless. Add this to the fact that once you hit around a 45k balance, your lot size would need to exceed their max of £50 per pip, that alone would reduce the compounding effect of FMT MM.
I'm sure that most people here know that unlike ECN brokers, SLM (and other retail brokers) take the other side of your trade (read SLM's T&C!). So if you are buying, they are selling - based on the notion that most amateur retail traders lose. This type of broker does not want you to be profitable long term, as this means they lose money! Can you imagine how much they would lose if everyone was trading with FMT - which can be 85% accurate?
I'm not naive enough to believe that traders on this forum are not in it for the profits; this is why we trade FMT! The conflict of interest between traders and retail market makers is too significant to even think we will be as profitable as our backtests may suggest. Hence why I don't mind paying CGT on bigger potential profits (I'd just be happy to have made enough to pay CGT!). If you have a small trading account (£1000) do yourself a favour and change your broker if you feel they are playing dirty
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I would sincerely love to hear of anybody here that has something nice to say about a market maker.