sure, but why would they have any reason to do any of these things if you are a losing trader, and will lose of your own doing?
if it is partly because you are a successful trader and a consistent winner and they have to engage is scrupulous activities to damage your success, then you just move on, if they are just an all round shoddy broker, then you move on...
you can make money spreadbetting, it is solely down to the individual.
what I am saying is, that there is no point lying to yourself, if you are not making money because you, as a trader are wrong, doing the wrong things at the wrong times then you wont make any money regardless of where or who you trade with.
you have to stop blaming others and start looking inwards and taking responsibility for your own success or failure, otherwise you will certainly never be successful.
Plus all the things you mention, are not eradicated when you go direct access, there are other naunces you must contend with ontop of these, the real market, has widening spreads, periods of illiquidity, slippage etc....
trade over the long term, and these naunces are insignificant.
The taking responsibility for your actions is (iirc) chapter 3 of Mark Douglas's trading in the zone.
