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I have had some feedback from Alpari UK regarding the use of flexible spreads.
Dear Sir
Thank you for your email.
Flexible spreads have been integrated in Alpari (UK) Demo accounts since 30th July 2009 and will be integrated in all Live accounts on Tuesday 18th August 2009 (23:00 GMT).
It’s impossible to tell how these changes will affect particular currencies, although there will be a maximum spread for normal market conditions.
You will be getting the best spreads available in the marketplace at any given time.
It is a fact that some currency pairs have greater liquidity in some markets than others.
£/$, for example, has extremely good liquidity in the European markets (as you might expect).
However the natural business that underpins this particular cross is not found in Asia, which in turn adversely affects liquidity.
You will only potentially experience worse spreads if you trade in illquid curency pairs.
The MAXIMUM spreads per currency pair under normal market conditions are listed below.
Maximum spread
EURUSD
2.3
USDCHF
4.0
USDJPY
3.0
GBPUSD
5.0
AUDUSD
5.0
USDCAD
8.0
EURGBP
5.0
EURCHF
6.0
EURJPY
6.0
GBPJPY
10.0
GBPCHF
10.0
EURCAD
12.0
EURAUD
14.0
USDSGD
10.0
CHFJPY
9.0
NZDUSD
9.0
EURNZD
20.0
AUDJPY
9.0
AUDNZD
20.0
AUDCAD
10.0
AUDCHF
10.0
CADCHF
8.0
CADJPY
8.0
NZDJPY
10.0
USDDKK
40.0
USDNOK
75.0
USDSEK
100.0
USDHKD
10.0
SGDJPY
8.0
XAUUSD
100.0
XAGUSD
10.0
Best regards
Paul
Alpari (UK) Ltd
5th Floor
201 Bishopsgate
EC2M 3AB
London
I guess the only way we will know is trade and check the results.
At the start of this week I have adjusted the start time to 8pm GMT and finish to 12pm GMT. This means starting one hour earlier and ending one hour earlier. The reason for this was to avoid the long, often loosing trades, taken out in the last hour of trading. Whether or not this has worked it’s difficult to say with only one weeks results, however, the weeks trading figures have greatly improved, if this is chance or not I can’t yet say.
One of the robots advantages is in spotting an opportunity which a human would miss. Admittedly this does not happen often, but one did last night so I thought I would show you this.
Remember this is on the M15 time scale so you would have to have been there at the time this happened. The robot is quick to enter at the right time making 11 pips.
Alpari Uk have changed their spread system I have just noticed it this week, as the spread figures calculated by FAP Turbo are now moving all over the place when trading during the Asian period. This may be good news, but I am not sure yet. Here is Alpari’s first announcement:
Alpari (UK) introduces flexible spreads – minimums on average 25% lower than current fixed levels
From Thursday 30th July, Alpari (UK) will be tightening minimum spreads across ALL currency pairs and precious metals. Flexible spread minimums will be reduced on average by 25% and up to 60% for some currency pairs compared with current fixed spreads.
With the introduction of additional price feeds, clients will be able to access significantly tighter spreads as we pass on the benefit of the tighter spreads available to us from the Interbank market.
Flexible spreads will also bring a greater degree of price-transparency to clients’ trades along with institutional-level pricing and lower transactional costs.
The introduction of significantly lower minimum spreads supports our commitment to providing clients with the most accurate Forex pricing, better execution and wider market access. We will also take every opportunity to tighten them further in the future.
During certain times of the day, periods of lower liquidity and when there is increased market volatility, spreads will naturally widen. Fully understanding the dynamics of flexible spreads is key to better-informed and more considered trading and the Alpari Academy will soon feature new tutorials and expert, impartial advice on the topic of spreads.
Flexible spreads will be integrated in Alpari (UK) Demo accounts from 30th July 2009 and in Alpari (UK) Live accounts within a matter of days.
Following this announcement a further change is also in the pipeline:
Alpari (UK) introduces flexible spreads – minimums on average 25% lower than current fixed levels – Tuesday 18th August 2009 (23:00 GMT)
From market opening 18th August 2009 (23:00 GMT), Alpari (UK) will be tightening minimum spreads across all currency pairs and precious metals on Demo and Live accounts.
Flexible spread minimums will be reduced, on average, by 25% and up to 60% for some currency pairs compared with current fixed spreads. Refer to the table below.
With the introduction of additional price feeds, clients will be able to access significantly tighter spreads as we pass on the benefit of the tighter spreads available to us from the Interbank market.
Flexible spreads will also bring a greater degree of price-transparency to clients’ trades along with institutional-level pricing and lower transactional costs.
The introduction of significantly lower minimum spreads supports our commitment to providing clients with the most accurate Forex pricing, better execution and wider market access. We will also take every opportunity to tighten them further in the future.
During certain times of the day, periods of lower liquidity and when there is increased market volatility, spreads will naturally widen. Fully understanding the dynamics of flexible spreads is key to better-informed and more considered trading and the Alpari Academy will soon feature new tutorials and expert, impartial advice on the topic of spreads.
Now I am confused, is this on top of the first change or not, I guess so ? I have contacted Alpari UK about this change and hope to post their reply shortly. My immediate thought is great, however, this may mean higher spreads when trading in the Asian period as our pairs are low in liquidity at this time. I have seen the spreads from Alpari go very high at times this week, but then they drop quite low again. Since the robot knows this in real time it can work out when to close and open trades. So as long as the spread goes low frequently enough then things may be better with this system.
So OK… here are the weekly updated results.
Weekly win
Weekly Loss
Weekly Gain
£4266.88
£-287.97
£3978.91
Percent wins
73.95
Average Win
340.38
Percent loss
26.05
Average loss
464.8
Expectancy
130.63
ROI
0.16
No of wins to date
88
No of losses to date
31
MT4 Stats have last week updated their reporting format with graphical and pip data. The bugs we saw last week are getting less and hopefully MT4 Stats will get even better in the future. Just click the blue box above for the data.
Recently I sold an awning annex on Ebay for £180.00 including postage. When the money appeared in my paypal account, to my horror it could not be released to my bank account, the company says:
“Payments received: The transaction is under a payment hold for an eBay item. Your money will be released after 21 days. To get your payment sooner, please post the goods now”
Strange, as I posted it straight away and flagged it as posted.!!
I now get,
“Please post the item right away. We’ll release the funds when one of the following occurs:
you receive positive feedback from the buyer
it’s been 21 days since the payment date and you haven’t received a dispute, claim, chargeback, or reversal on the transaction being held”
Delving further I find,
FAQ
“I am a new seller, will my money be held?
If you are a new seller and have a record of good performance, you will receive your payment instantly in the vast majority of cases.”
Well not in my case! what else do you need. I have 100% positive feedback with 96 transactions over 7 years 20 or so selling items the rest buying them.
So I ring the phone line, which is difficult to find on the site. I get through to a load of irrelevent computer generated options, but I fortunately recalled if I keep pressing 00000 I will get through to a real person. Finally I speak to someone.
Ah, the guy says it’s a random thing and it occurs when an item is classed as high risk, I guess an awning annex is high risk then? He does not know, like me, but the computer says it could be! This is probably the case then so absolutely nothing can be done. Of course the computer is the God these days and no one can make a commonsense decision to override it. It’s the humans that have become the robots, it happens in all banks. What has happened to the Bank Manager that can make an informed decision based on your personal circumstances? Eh!
You see the really silly thing about the Awning annex sale is who is going to leave feedback, the buyer wanted the item urgently as they were off for a 2 week vacation. So why would they leave feedback, I wouldn’t, until I have tried it for two weeks to make sure its OK and I may just be bothered leave feedback if I remember when I get back home.
Ok there is nothing I can do, I have to wait.
Or is there? There are many others that also have had this thrown upon them from the Paypal God.
It appears Paypal has a glitch, if you refund say £1.00 to the buyer it releases your money. A pound extra in Paypal is not worth 180 pounds in the Bank, so I will try it.
It was a good week up to the final trade, where a heavy loss made all the good work earlier in the week disappear. I have not changed any of the Fap Turbo settings on the Alpari account . I do notice that the trades which have lead to large losses are taken out towards the latter part of the trading session. As many others have also observed this, I am planning to start trading one hour earlier and finishing one hour earlier next week. Start will be 8pm GMT and finish 12pm GMT.
I have been using the collective FX LLC account to carry out some ideas. The first was to reverse trade with Fap Turbo. This didn’t work out, I could not see why it would and this proved me right. I then decided to trade 24/4 to see how the robot coped with trading outside the Asian session. There were some big wins, but also more big losses, sadly. This proved that the robot is not designed to trade in trending markets. It was logically taking the right action, but getting caught out as it appeared to be deciding which direction the market was going before a true trend had been established.
My conclusion is FAP turbo should only be trading in periods where there are no trends up or down that are already clearly established.
Percent wins 72.9
Average Win 329.32
Percent loss 27.1
Average loss 486.92
Expectancy 108.1
ROI 0.1157
No of wins to date 78
No of losses to date 29
MT4stats have this week updated the layout of the stats. There are still a few bugs with the graphs, but they are working on this and hope to have the various errors fixed by the end of this week.
