Contest FXCM 15 November

in previous contests it was possible to trade gold.....

Jason Rogers maybe you can help me out I want an account based in the uk, registered, so i can trade gold like in previous contests!

Its like there is not gold bro.

is anyone else experiencing a ridiculous amount of requotes? I have to click buy or sell at least 5 times before the order goes through

at first i was, it was impossible to open or close. Then i noticed when you open a ticket, there is an unusual box and condition to change the deviation. I have not seen this before, the frustration is having to change this every time i go in or out

So press F9 set up trade, and select box at bottom of ticket, and change the deviation to a number above 5 then buy/sell
also see contest discussion, jason has placed screenshots

I can't get it to update.

And no gold etc... How do I delete the account from my portfolio? Can't really be bothered.

Jaypipin posted:
at first i was, it was impossible to open or close. Then i noticed when you open a ticket, there is an unusual box and condition to change the deviation. I have not seen this before, the frustration is having to change this every time i go in or out

So press F9 set up trade, and select box at bottom of ticket, and change the deviation to a number above 5 then buy/sell
also see contest discussion, jason has placed screenshots

Just noticed someone has posted a fix to this on another forum, basically what you just said but you can set the default level, just go to options>trade>set default deviation to 10, have never had the problem of off-quotes again :)

Ironman, you can delete the account from ur portfolio in ur account setting panel.

Thanks Boozer!

stinsfireFX posted:
Just noticed someone has posted a fix to this on another forum, basically what you just said but you can set the default level, just go to options>trade>set default deviation to 10, have never had the problem of off-quotes again :)

Thanks for letting us know stinsfire and good luck in the contest!

Reminder that trading closes today at 21:55 GMT, in about 1 hour and 15 minutes from right now, and will re-open on Sunday at 22:15 GMT.

Have a great weekend!

Greetings!
How long does the contest last?

Ok, got it. Sorry.

'The contest starts at 09:00 AM (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, November 14 and ends at 17:00 PM (Eastern Time) on Thursday, December 13.'

I went to the website and searched for 'contest' in the search box but no mention of the contest. Where is it?

jasonrogers posted:

jambol posted:
hi
I'm from singapore and the word singapore is not inside the 'select country ' coloum.
therefore I cannot enter the contest. Can someone help?? or are Singaporean banned from entering this contest?

Rgds

Hi Jambol,

Since we are not registered in Singapore, the regulators in Singapore do not allow us to open accounts for Singapore residents. Unfortunately, that's means you would not be eligible for the live account prizes from the contest.

Jason

Im pissed.... im trading for fun now

Whoever said Singaporeans cannot open accounts with offshore brokers?

If Singaporeans trade with offshore brokers, it's not under MAS' jurisdiction.

Please help me. What is wrong with my order? I cannot execute it.

I've wanted to open long position on EUR USD, and short on USD CAD this morning (GMT+1 time) and I was unable to do so without apparent reason. As I've discovered I need to specify slippage to have my order executed. It's quite uncool to get to know it after my trades are about 65 pips late... :<

miszczumario posted:
Please help me. What is wrong with my order? I cannot execute it.

Hello miszczumario,

If you look at the journal entries, it indicates the order rejection occurred due to 'Off-Quote'. This indicates that by the time the order reached the system for execution, the current market price was outside the maximum deviation you specified for the order. The order will be rejected in this case. This can be caused if there is any latency in the internet connecting causing the order to arrive after the market price has changed or if you are sending orders during volatile market conditions when prices are changing rapidly. Not allowing any flexibility would increase the likelihood that the price has changed by the time your order arrives.

What you can do is increase the maximum deviation setting to 10 or 20 which would give you 1.0 - 2.0 pips of flexibility for market movement rather than having the order being rejected outright.

The default maximum deviation setting can be changed by navigating in MT4 to:

Tools -> Options -> Trade [TAB]

Set Deviation by default to XX pips.

Jason