Discussion of the Forex Contest FXCM Forex Contest

egyptnile posted:
[[ I lost a trade due to server error ]]
I put a sell limit order on NZDCAD, The price goes higer than my price with 8 pips, but the order has not been executed.
:(

51373132 2014.11.07 01:56:49 sell limit nzdcad 0.88150 0.00000 0.87603 2014.11.07 18:10:40 0.87708

just take this photo

My intention is not to complain but the
Inability of the server to execute my requests
Has cost me dearly. Standing orders in the market were
Not executed. Orders that I had cancelled were executed.
And worst of all trades I was trying to initiate were
Not being permitted.

I am sure the techs will resolve these issues but
They underscore the entire first week of the contest.

for those that are left, hope you catch ever trade this week, best of luck

Cholipop posted:
 Ok guys please stop crying. It is only DEMO, and none of us were going to win it anyway. So now that most of your dreams of having a real account is now gone, let us focus on regular trading. Considering joinning this PAMM.... 5% a day keeps the 9 to 5 away.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Cholipop/currently-active/1037514

you again ... *sigh*. I have a real account. Several. And I'm sure most people here have real accounts. But I see you're just using this as an opportunity to fluff yourself and link to your account.

Why is there always a cryer against the people raising complaints?? Always. Without fail.

jasonrogers posted:

Huckleberry posted:
So far I have, 3 times in two days, not been able to open an order before during and 30 minutes after a news trade. I've even set my slippage to 40 pips. FORTY PIP SLIPPAGE AND I STILL GET OFF QUOTES... AND ON A DEMO FEED.

Hi Huckleberry,

When you say that you set your slippage to 40 pips, are you saying that you set your Maximum Deviation on MT4 to 400? Note that since FXCM quotes forex prices to one-tenth of one pip (AKA 5-digit pricing), 1 point on the Maximum Deviation is equivalent to 0.1 pips.

Hola jason.

I meant to reply on Fri but something came up. After seeing your post I went 'ooooh, right right' and went and checked my settings and you're right I had it set to 40 which in reality was 4 so, just for giggles and the other thing I set it to I think 200 just to see if that would solve anything aaaand it did. My entry did in fact trigger and as you had claimed in another post where you posted stats of the slippage as sometimes being in the clients favor, I actually entered short with a 10 pip total slip in my favor ha!.

Apologies for the heated posts earlier :)

Huckleberry posted:

Cholipop posted:
 Ok guys please stop crying. It is only DEMO, and none of us were going to win it anyway. So now that most of your dreams of having a real account is now gone, let us focus on regular trading. Considering joinning this PAMM.... 5% a day keeps the 9 to 5 away.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Cholipop/currently-active/1037514

you again ... *sigh*. I have a real account. Several. And I'm sure most people here have real accounts. But I see you're just using this as an opportunity to fluff yourself and link to your account.

Why is there always a cryer against the people raising complaints?? Always. Without fail.

 Well, because your complaints won´t be resolved. Remember it is only demo and only for fun! All the crying won´t get you anywhere.

Huckleberry posted:

Cholipop posted:
 Ok guys please stop crying. It is only DEMO, and none of us were going to win it anyway. So now that most of your dreams of having a real account is now gone, let us focus on regular trading. Considering joinning this PAMM.... 5% a day keeps the 9 to 5 away.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Cholipop/currently-active/1037514

you again ... *sigh*. I have a real account. Several. And I'm sure most people here have real accounts. But I see you're just using this as an opportunity to fluff yourself and link to your account.

Why is there always a cryer against the people raising complaints?? Always. Without fail.

 It looks like the market ¨Bitch slapped you for real yooooooooooooooooooo¨
https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Huckleberry/mb-trade/741431

We have all had this same problem, SL not closing, pending not opening, etc, all these issues I have not had with my real FXCM account, also notice No.1 position is an Arbitrage system & these issues can screw those cheats right out of the game :)

Dear Traders,
What is the maximum lot size that can be executed on 50,000

Cholipop posted:

Huckleberry posted:

Cholipop posted:
 Ok guys please stop crying. It is only DEMO, and none of us were going to win it anyway. So now that most of your dreams of having a real account is now gone, let us focus on regular trading. Considering joinning this PAMM.... 5% a day keeps the 9 to 5 away.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Cholipop/currently-active/1037514

you again ... *sigh*. I have a real account. Several. And I'm sure most people here have real accounts. But I see you're just using this as an opportunity to fluff yourself and link to your account.

Why is there always a cryer against the people raising complaints?? Always. Without fail.

 It looks like the market ¨Bitch slapped you for real yooooooooooooooooooo¨
https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Huckleberry/mb-trade/741431

Is there any trader who never lost one account ?
Just because you deleted your fails from myfx does not mean that you never lost one account and you Pamm account is very recent which means it's =0 .
If you want people to invest in your pamm, you should post a minimum 1 year record, a real portofolio not just 3 weeks of trading.

fxcatalin posted:

Cholipop posted:

Huckleberry posted:

Cholipop posted:
 Ok guys please stop crying. It is only DEMO, and none of us were going to win it anyway. So now that most of your dreams of having a real account is now gone, let us focus on regular trading. Considering joinning this PAMM.... 5% a day keeps the 9 to 5 away.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Cholipop/currently-active/1037514

you again ... *sigh*. I have a real account. Several. And I'm sure most people here have real accounts. But I see you're just using this as an opportunity to fluff yourself and link to your account.

Why is there always a cryer against the people raising complaints?? Always. Without fail.

 It looks like the market ¨Bitch slapped you for real yooooooooooooooooooo¨
https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Huckleberry/mb-trade/741431

Is there any trader who never lost one account ?
Just because you deleted your fails from myfx does not mean that you never lost one account and you Pamm account is very recent which means it's =0 .
If you want people to invest in your pamm, you should post a minimum 1 year record, a real portofolio not just 3 weeks of trading.

 How many accounts have you seen BLOW UP after 1 year? When will you guys understand that trading is suppose to be seen as short term income and not as a long term one? You make 300% profit, you withdraw it all, and start all over again.

Cholipop posted:

fxcatalin posted:

Cholipop posted:

Huckleberry posted:

Cholipop posted:
 Ok guys please stop crying. It is only DEMO, and none of us were going to win it anyway. So now that most of your dreams of having a real account is now gone, let us focus on regular trading. Considering joinning this PAMM.... 5% a day keeps the 9 to 5 away.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Cholipop/currently-active/1037514

you again ... *sigh*. I have a real account. Several. And I'm sure most people here have real accounts. But I see you're just using this as an opportunity to fluff yourself and link to your account.

Why is there always a cryer against the people raising complaints?? Always. Without fail.

 It looks like the market ¨Bitch slapped you for real yooooooooooooooooooo¨
https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Huckleberry/mb-trade/741431

Is there any trader who never lost one account ?
Just because you deleted your fails from myfx does not mean that you never lost one account and you Pamm account is very recent which means it's =0 .
If you want people to invest in your pamm, you should post a minimum 1 year record, a real portofolio not just 3 weeks of trading.

 How many accounts have you seen BLOW UP after 1 year? When will you guys understand that trading is suppose to be seen as short term income and not as a long term one? You make 300% profit, you withdraw it all, and start all over again.

Yes your are right
He shoould give statement for one year otherwise it is scamming for advanced trader haha

atta posted:

Cholipop posted:

fxcatalin posted:

Cholipop posted:

Huckleberry posted:

Cholipop posted:
 Ok guys please stop crying. It is only DEMO, and none of us were going to win it anyway. So now that most of your dreams of having a real account is now gone, let us focus on regular trading. Considering joinning this PAMM.... 5% a day keeps the 9 to 5 away.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Cholipop/currently-active/1037514

you again ... *sigh*. I have a real account. Several. And I'm sure most people here have real accounts. But I see you're just using this as an opportunity to fluff yourself and link to your account.

Why is there always a cryer against the people raising complaints?? Always. Without fail.

 It looks like the market ¨Bitch slapped you for real yooooooooooooooooooo¨
https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Huckleberry/mb-trade/741431

Is there any trader who never lost one account ?
Just because you deleted your fails from myfx does not mean that you never lost one account and you Pamm account is very recent which means it's =0 .
If you want people to invest in your pamm, you should post a minimum 1 year record, a real portofolio not just 3 weeks of trading.

 How many accounts have you seen BLOW UP after 1 year? When will you guys understand that trading is suppose to be seen as short term income and not as a long term one? You make 300% profit, you withdraw it all, and start all over again.

Yes your are right
He shoould give statement for one year otherwise it is scamming for advanced trader haha

 Huh??

alboreny posted:
I just wanna ask something, we are in a contest and the FXCM do all that (invalid price, off qoutes... etc) what about if we have real accounts what will they do ? thank you FXCM and i will tell every body about how much you are good and how much you looking to be the best . ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Just to clarify, there was a tech issue on this demo server specifically (other demo servers and live servers were not affected) that caused demo traders to have problems placing orders last week. That issue was fixed this past weekend. If such a tech issue affected live trading accounts, then our clients could file a trade inquiry to be reviewed by the Trade Services Team. If there was an error on our part that affected your live trades negatively, FXCM would make the appropriate correct to your live account.

If you still find yourself receiving 'Off Quotes' and 'Invalid Prices' messages, please check your Maximum Deviation setting and remember that 10 points on your Maximum Deviation equal 1 pip. 'Off Quotes' and 'Invalid Prices' messages occur for valid reasons to indicate that an order could not be filled within your specified Maximum Deviation tolerance. This is to protect you from being filled with more negative slippage that you were willing to accept.

a7maddddd posted:
Dear Traders,
What is the maximum lot size that can be executed on 50,000

With $50,000 virtual balance in your demo account, the maximum trade size you can place varies from product to the next. Note that you can trade forex, stock indices, metals and energy products. Your contest demo account has the default margin requirements of a USD-denominated FXCM UK account regardless of where you live. You can view those margin requirements here: https://bit.ly/TppG9T

Huckleberry posted:

jasonrogers posted:

Huckleberry posted:
So far I have, 3 times in two days, not been able to open an order before during and 30 minutes after a news trade. I've even set my slippage to 40 pips. FORTY PIP SLIPPAGE AND I STILL GET OFF QUOTES... AND ON A DEMO FEED.

Hi Huckleberry,

When you say that you set your slippage to 40 pips, are you saying that you set your Maximum Deviation on MT4 to 400? Note that since FXCM quotes forex prices to one-tenth of one pip (AKA 5-digit pricing), 1 point on the Maximum Deviation is equivalent to 0.1 pips.

Hola jason.

I meant to reply on Fri but something came up. After seeing your post I went 'ooooh, right right' and went and checked my settings and you're right I had it set to 40 which in reality was 4 so, just for giggles and the other thing I set it to I think 200 just to see if that would solve anything aaaand it did. My entry did in fact trigger and as you had claimed in another post where you posted stats of the slippage as sometimes being in the clients favor, I actually entered short with a 10 pip total slip in my favor ha!.

Apologies for the heated posts earlier :)

No problem. I'm glad that's cleared up. 😄

This demo contest is a great opportunity to learn these features of the platform before trading live.

why here is a such a big drop in equity without any loss, but by some kind of withdraw?

@cacink - spread of 1/2 pip?