Using trade latency issues to trade…what is that?
Again, answered by Simon, Managing Director of Capital Spreads -: Frankly all the adverse comment on the spread betting platforms comes from the same people bleating about foreign exchange. Never about indices or shares. This is because these people think that they have a ‘right to scalp’ and seem annoyed when spread betting providers do not agree with them. Price latency is…we must get our prices from somewhere because obviously we cannot just ‘make them up’. We pull in prices from price feed suppliers and put them through our price engine (fixing the spreads…etc) and then place them onto our web-site. Sometimes (especially when there is a very fast moving market) this will lead to a small latency issue (0.5s) – but half a second can be a lifetime in forex markets. All prices on our platforms are taken from the real bid/offer in the underlying market concerned. We do not ‘Stop Hunt’, bias our price, widen spreads blah blah blah. The latency issue is the only reason we turn clients
