You mean to say that you consider FXCM a first rate broker??????? You gotta be kidding me. You can't trade this style, as you claim, if you're not connected to a true ECN/STP, ever.

Sooooo, reading through all these postings and having tried to get to the bottom of it all, spending months of wasted time, it wants to appear there is no REAL "trade group", "trader", "platform" - and whatever-else-you-got. It seems all shady, fuzzy, watered down by joker/brokers trying to make a quick buck off some greedy and/or naive "investor".
Since I am not a broker but rather an investor, I care for my money. So this all starts with 1 M in €/$? Got that. 10 M? Got that too. I am a forex trader for 30 odd years and doing very well thank you. This is MY MONEY - and I am adviser to a non-profit organisation that has much more than my pittance of money.
So why would an investor send his documents to some ghost who calls himself "program manager"? Why would I allow such unknown entity to "verify funds"? You know what my banker would do if he discovered that? For my own protection he'd call the Psych ward and have me put away - and he'd be right to do so.
Can anyone enlighten me on this anonymous stuff? What is a "program manager" with no name? What do you consider a "platform"? That is about the fuzziest thing I have ever come across. Seems that anyone can "create" such thing out of thin air...... Everybody is "close" to the platform, all are "next" to the trader - and everybody wants MY PAPERS addressed to ghosts. Who in his sane mind would do such a thing? My account, my info in general is sensitive info - and I won't give it out to just anyone coming along with some claims.
Looking forward to some educational mails - or so I hope. By the way, I am in Europe and would very much love to keep those transactions here as well. With MT 799 and whatever comes along I got no problem, I discussed this already with my banker and the legal department (who share my view by the way) Acchino
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