They recently launched a UK spreadbetting service on MT4 - I had the usual assurances and promises of no re-quotes and great execution etc. I was trading as low as £10 per point and every trade was re-quoted always with the price moving in their favour. Furthermore if the market price goes within a point of your stop they will take you out and claim that the market traded at that point, however if you are looking to take profit the rules are different and again always in their favour. I would keep well away from Alpari.co.uk and find yourself a more reputable broker.

I do not recommend this company!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) They do not have 24 hours customer service
2) Customer service very slaw and sometimes they do not reply to your questions
3) for example when you open the order and after you decide to made a take profit to protect yourself, they can close your order even the price did not reach that level.
4) sometimes terminal not responding. mean you can not open, close the order at all.

Though I have been trading a live account with them, I still maintain a few demo accounts for
system testing.

Since last month my demo accounts with them have been de-activated without warning, logins
of the newly opened ones were also 'invalidated' one by one. They could not rectify yet gave
unacceptable reasons. The live account was not affected but this is really frustrating.

I joined their 'Trading Contest' from Nov 6 supposed to end on Friday Dec 10, but the Contest
Demo Account together with all my other demo accounts got de-activated again today Dec 8,
3 days before the contest ends.

I suspect that this broker is up to something recently. This may be a sign of trouble to come.
I think I'll close my live account with them and not to trade with them any more.

Recently they charge you interests no matter what you long or short, even AUDJPY. That sucks! No more carry trade?

http://www.alpari.co.uk/en/trading_accounts/rollover_interest_policy.html

Swing trading with mini and micro lots no problem, no slippage, good platform speeds and reliable service.

Intraday 15min and under and platform starts to pause, plenty of re-quotes even when you set maximum allowed slippage upto 2pips! Platform disconnections, very suspicious considering the performance for longer time frames.

As already said customer service is good and responses and transfers good as well. For accounts under $5k it's a reasonable choice but don't expect to be competitive on intraday.

one of the better broker between all the mt4 bucket shops