Blackberry Bold 9900

I'm a heavy fan of Blackberry phone. Blackberry Bold 9900 was released in the US and some other countries quite a while ago, but, here in Japan, it was release at the end of March.

In my country, Blackberry users are minority so I had to make phone calls to cellular shops around in my area as not many cell phone stores don't want to keep stock for such an unpopular phone. Nowadays, iPhone and Android phones are the popular gadgets here.

The store I found that has BB9900 in stock was near the U.S. army base. They say some military men always come to buy Blackberry so they always keep some in stock.

New BB9900 was a little bigger and thinner than my previous BB9700. I liked the silver rim around it. But the coolest improvement was its speed. Everything, including browsing and accessing to my VPS, got much more faster due to Snapdragon CPU and increased RAM, which also contribute smoother flipping motion on the touch screen. The second best thing wider monitor. It's now much easier to read texts.

And, of course, those physical keys are the best of the best. In terms of ease of typing, Blackberry is second to none.

AxTrader Pro Ready

I don't know why Aussie people are so laid-back. When they say that the account would be ready in  a day, it will probably take a week.


Anyway, my AxiTrader Pro account is now ready, and I've already funded my account. They don't charge online credit card payment fee for your first deposit which is good.

Looking at charts for various currency pairs, I was really surprised. The spreads are probably the tightest I've ever seen in my more than five year trading experience. Looking good so far.

AxiTrader Pro

After a week, my AxiTrader Pro account is yet to ready. I've done a chat with a rep a couple of days ago, and they say it'll be ready in a day. Today, I've done the same kind of chat with one of them, again. How many times do I have to speak with them for the same thing?

A question that pissed me off was "AxiTrader Pro account doesn't offer micro and the minimum deposit is $1,000. Does it suit your trading style?" I replied "do I need to answer this question?"

Thank you, Axi, for worrying about my financial status!!! But please concentrate on your own job!!!

Looking for a Broker

Recently, one of my most favorite brokers, FXCC, has raised their commission drastically to the double their previous commission charge. By this chance, such high commission soaks up one-third or more of the profits made by my EA, which chases for only 5 to 15 pips. So I stopped trading with them and withdrew all my funds there. Be aware, their commission is now super high. I'm sure they will lose so many clients due to this crazy change.

Now, I tried to open an account with ATC Brokers that gets almost too good reputation here:
http://www.forexpeacearmy.com/public/review/www.atcbrokers.com

However, ATC Brokers forwarded me to FX Pulp website and fill the application form there. Knowing nothing about FX Pulp, I made some research on the net and found some articles that are not looking good:
http://www.forexpeacearmy.com/public/review/www.fxpulp.com
http://forexmagnates.com/fxpulpcrown-forex-ownership-saga-continues

I asked ATC Brokers their relationship with FX Pulp, and here is their answer.
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Our main clearing house is FXCM, however FXCM does not accept clients from certain countries, for this reason FXCM put us in touch with a company called AECN FX, and a few clients that were unable to open directly with FXCM, they would open with AECN FX.

 AECN FX is an IB to FXCM, so clients still use our own MT4, same commissions and spreads.

 About 1-2 month ago, FX Pulp bought AECN FX, so overnight accounts under AECN became Pulp clients.

 I was not aware of Pulp history, I will look into this further.

 What I recommend for you is this; open an account through my second liquidity house, they are located in the US, hence the leverage is 50:1.

 If 50:1 leverage is acceptable, let me know and I will have new accounts send you the on line application link.
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As I don't like 50:1 leverage and FX Pulp either, I declined their offer.

Finally, I've decided to give AxiTrader Pro account a try. I had once been a customer of Axitrader (standard account) and I really liked them at that time. With their standard account, although spreads are not so tight, pricing feed is very natural (probably no dubious plug-ins or bridges) and my EA had kept working fine there.

I have a positive impression about AxiTrader Pro account as they use the same liquidity provider with FinFX. I'm really apprehensive to use FinFX as they are not regulated, however, so many people says positive comments about FinFX. For me, if AxiTrader uses the same liquidity provider, that's much much better because Axi is regulated by Australian authority which is said to be very reliable.

A bit of downside is the minimum lot size of Axi Pro is 0.1 and no micro lots are allowed. This means your initial fund has to be relatively large. But I'll give it a try anyway.