FxPro Review Scores

fxPro is my first broker and I have been spending with them more than one year. Five month ago I would probably claim they were very good broker, reliable and quick, but times are changing a lot.

Period 1- good times
I was a newby (of course, I have been still a newby). My account obviously merged to red numbers. But I experienced nearly no requotes and very short delays for instant orders, even during high volatility times, like the flash crash. I experienced pending orders to be filled exactly at the price I ordered, and if there was a gap, I got the price in the middle of gap.
With this knowledge it was possible to turn my red numbers back into the black and the equity curve started like a rocket.

Period 2 - scam times
Suddenly the execution time of instant orders has been increased to at least 5 seconds (I have a record of 70 seconds), regardless of condition in the market. I was not able to enter the market with instant order, even in the very quiet market, unless I allowed slip at least 3 pips. Every time I got the worst tick price within the waiting interval and I never ever got a positive slippage. And when I was trying to close the order, the story repeated.
If the price moved in my favour during the interval, i.e there was no worse tick I could have bought, the requote appeared. The same if the worst tick was further then the allowed 3 pips.
Pending orders became very dangerous for trading the news. If the order appeared in a gap, the order did not activate until the next 15 ticks (my best guess), and then the worst tick price was chosen.
If there was a second gap within those 15 ticks, the count seemed to be restarted. If the price made a U-turn after the gap and crossed your pending order in the other way round, you got filled immediately.

Since September I am not able to make money with them any more and I realized, that I spent more time on investigating and documenting the fxPro mt4 behaviour then on market analysis.