Different Spead between cTrader & cAlgo
Different Spead between cTrader & cAlgo
07 Dec 2013, 13:44
Why in ocations i got different spread in cAlgo and cTrader platform if i trade on same broker (same account)?? In ocations i noticed spread diffrence is about 10 - 20 pips and it is too much in my opinion. Dont think is should be like that :/
Why is that and is it possible sort out this issue anyhow??
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PiTeRMaN
09 Dec 2013, 16:45
( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:20 )
Broker is Thinkforex and here on next example i will show you now, i got another spread issue i mentioned earlier. Its on trade i made Friday and ss you can see in about 300miliseconds, spread defference i had, was almost 20 pips and at the end it cost me -20% of my balance & im not very happy about :/
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Spotware
10 Dec 2013, 18:24
We've checked ThinkForex live spreads 06.12.2013 at 13:30 UTC. Spread was very volatile this time because of news event, it was changing in a range from 0 to 20+ pips. So you could see different spreads if your applications were connected to different proxies, so each application needed different time to receive actual quotes. cAlgo and cTrader automatically choose proxy to connect based on its latency and loading.
We recommend to host cAlgo on a VPS close to server for high-frequency trading.
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PiTeRMaN
11 Dec 2013, 03:34
RE:
Yes, you are right! Spread was volatile that time and you are right again. I checked Journal and i see, both platforms were connected to different proxies, but im asking you now. Is it a reason to have almost 20 pips difference between cTrader & cAlgo and/or between 2 different proxies?? ...IMHO, i dont think so and even in mt4 i had spread lower ;)
2nd thing i would need from you, please, provide me "Connection Settings" for London-3 proxy. I asked already my broker, but they told me, they dont have that information.
and 3rd thing is, could you please provide me tick data from 13:29:30 GMT to 13:30:30 GMT. Looks my broker doesnt record tick data, they cant provide me that info, but might you do.
Thank you very much & im waiting for your answer. Best regards.
Spotware said:
We've checked ThinkForex live spreads 06.12.2013 at 13:30 UTC. Spread was very volatile this time because of news event, it was changing in a range from 0 to 20+ pips. So you could see different spreads if your applications were connected to different proxies, so each application needed different time to receive actual quotes. cAlgo and cTrader automatically choose proxy to connect based on its latency and loading.
We recommend to host cAlgo on a VPS close to server for high-frequency trading.
@PiTeRMaN
Spotware
11 Dec 2013, 11:48
RE: RE:
PiTeRMaN said:
Yes, you are right! Spread was volatile that time and you are right again. I checked Journal and i see, both platforms were connected to different proxies, but im asking you now. Is it a reason to have almost 20 pips difference between cTrader & cAlgo and/or between 2 different proxies?? ...IMHO, i dont think so and even in mt4 i had spread lower ;)
Difference in spread depends on quotes coming from broker's liquidity provider. At this moment liquidity provider sent quotes with spread that was frequently changed in a range from 0 to 20+ pips. Spread was changing like that in both cTrader and cAlgo, but one application was receiving those changes a bit later.
2nd thing i would need from you, please, provide me "Connection Settings" for London-3 proxy. I asked already my broker, but they told me, they dont have that information.
It's rather difficult for us because of following reasons:
- Automatic algorithms takes into consideration proxy loading, we can not allow all clients to connect to a single proxy
- Sometimes we change list of proxies available to a broker, so London-3 can be unavailable for you in future (it will be changed to a different proxy)
- Sometimes we perform proxy maintains, when it's temporary switched off application have to connect to a different one
If you see that cTrader or cAlgo is connected to a wrong proxy just try to relogin one more time. If you connect to a wrong proxy too often, just send a report with to engage@spotware.com - we will investigate the problem.
and 3rd thing is, could you please provide me tick data from 13:29:30 GMT to 13:30:30 GMT. Looks my broker doesnt record tick data, they cant provide me that info, but might you do.
Please send an email to engage@spotware.com - we will provide full tick history for this period.
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PiTeRMaN
07 Dec 2013, 20:47 ( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:20 )
RE:
On this picture of my live trade taken monday 2nd of December you can see, what i mean exactly.
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