fills are crap. They recently sent email that execution speeds on fills will be better---BUT nothing has changed and they remained pathetic. I am a prt of a trading group in which more then 20 traders are trading on gomarkets and all are having the same problem. Moreover they dont offer 500:1 leverage ( not that you need it). I have an account size of $14000 and they told me that they offer 500:1 leverege only on mini accounts--so obviously false advertising on their website. Their spreads are not that good either. Mostly ranging from 1.3-1.6 pips spread on eu + slippage will average you btw 2.5-3.5 pips spread on eu which is BS.
Wish they can be more honest and be fair. Im ashamed of their customer service especially chris character who has got every excuse to back their dishonesty. stay away !

I must disagree with you Serpent, as mentioned in my earlier post , my execution speed is great and i am a succesful scalper, yes they arent perfect all the time and their website could be a bit more user friendly but at least they arent a bucketshop like some I could mention. Im in the UK and my speeds are pretty fast less than 1 second on average and if I do see occasional slippage it is 50/50 possitive and negative so I can live with that.
maybe you should try a VPS as my mate is on a wireless connection so uses crucial VPS to alleviate this and its very quick.
good luck and hope you can get the speed resolved.

My Forex trading experience has certainly changed over the past 12 months.
MT4 is my preffered trading platofrm but have had some below average experiences with UK brokers who will remain nameless.
Australia's regulation is similar to the UK so I decided to start trading with GO markets, my style of trading is very short term so timing is off the essence. At first Go markets had an average execution speed and delivered more than enough requotes. A few months ago Go updated their servers and the difference is considerable, no more requotes as they have adopted market execution and a very fast response time.
I would recommend a good internet speed if you are a scalper and failing that a VPS could help.
Spread are generally very good but sometimes at night the spreads can widen but top be expected.
All in all they have improved to a good broker but it took some time.

Since the upgrade I have had nearly seamless service, good fills and spreads. I scalp with no issues but I dnt news trade as its a mugs game
If you want genuine prices then you must be prepared for spreads to move wider during news as thats what the market does. I would rather that than a market maker I trade with Dukas Copy and IB and exactly the same happens. Dukas and Interactive brokers are slightly better but Go Markets are the best for MT4 that I have tried so far.

Since its recent establishment in 2006 as a smalltime retail broker GoMarkets has come a long way; from bad to bigger - and worse.

No disadvantages? In June this year they tried removing dealer intervention requote dialogue boxes to 'remove risk of requotes' i.e.

immediate slippage on market entry. Thought you entered at the market price you clicked buy/sell on? Wrong. You'd end up with a price order that is filled almost arbitrarily seconds later prety much at the end of the nearest S/R region, get left there leaving you gaping when
price reverses. Faced with an overwhelming number of complaints and no doubt potential loss of clients they soon replaced it with the default mt4 'enable maximum deviation' box (making it sound like they came up with the idea). In early September they issued an email and MT4 messages informing clients of an upgrade to both server and Metatrader platform that "vastly improved connection speed and also improves order execution." An entire paragraph was dedicated to telling you how fantastic their server upgrade was, how much faster and stable MT4 connectivity would be, how using the old MT4 would leave you at high risk of intermittent disconnections - and barley mentioned that they were changing order execution. Warning bells began to ring - when your service provider begins losing their transparency as an indication of honesty and trustworthiness, you know it's time to bail. You can guess what the changes where; again, removal of the confirmation of whether you want to take the poorly requoted price. Exactly what they tried to implement in the first place to stall the scalpers, only this time they disguised it in the form of an 'upgrade'.

While requotes and dealer intervention can be manually harnessed by a broker to prevent a possibly damaging entry (from their perspective), Gomarkets began and continues to market itself seemingly to the small retail trader - to which there is far more potential to be made and far more advantage in putting the poor slob in a ridiculously negative and unintended position leaving him with no choice but to exit on his own (or get stopped out) at a loss, than to stop him from entering in the first place. Moreover there is far less effort and far less to lose by removing confirmation requote boxes to allow a small-time scalper/breakout trader (EA or not) to eat his own equity out since not only are these the kind of guys that go for at least 3 refills before moving on to the next broker, their equity contribution to the
overall fund present a close to zero collateral and there's always fresh blood for 'easy money' so it doesn't really matter whether they
go bust or not. High roller position/carry on the other hand need to be taken care of - as a broker you wouldn't want that 500k guy walking
(what's left of) his equity out on you, not before you're done with it anyway. But trade execution slippage isn't such a bad thing for these guys, they got money to burn anyway.

If Gomarkets was purely or at least moderately dedicated to the prosperity of their clients, would they pull off cheap tactics like
these? Obviously there were some traders out there costing them alot of money possibly from their small variable >0.5 pip spreads or they
just figured they could make do with more of it.

Their marketed arbitrary tiny spreads do not come without a certain advantage however. They may be small spreads, but it does not mean
they will stay that way. REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE VARIABLE. And very much so. The typical retail broker with market-made feeds will
increase spreads during low liquidity. Gomarkets are no different, but are so inconsistent they essentially con you into getting stop hunted,
not that they need to in the first place. Particularly prior to news releases - or whenever they want really - they will the jolt their
amazingly small 1-2 pip spread that never seemed to go more than 3 to 10-20 pips for a MILLISECOND to knock the news trader out senseless without warning. Whereas other brokers will transparently show an increased marketmade feed, Gomarkets essentially market their tight variable spreads in order to take full advantage of arbitrarily removing pain-in-the-ass orders that eat at their equity. FXCM have
used the same - albeit worse - dirty tactics (albeit more) and have been fined by the NFA for it; Gomarkets is just a touch away.

At any rate, bottom line is if you're a news breaker or EA scalper you WILL lose (or stall profits at any rate) with them. Again, if you like
having uncancellable orders with 3-5 seconds of delay during high activity periods before a slipped entry at the bottom or top of a move
so that you bear the absolute brunt of the retrace then by all means go for it. Although typicial of marketmaking tactics they will
nonetheless stop hunt with their variable spreads when it suits them, particularly in typical S/R stop loss houses.

Having learnt this the hard way, it's the least I can do for the fellow little guy trying to beat the exchange to emphasise that a)

they will stop hunt with spreads - NEWS TRADERS BEWARE b) they will slip your market entries - SCALPERS BEWARE and c) they are devious and will do whatever it takes to keep themselves afloat even if it means implementing - or even deceptively hiding and sliding in - any changes ('improvements') that will cost you your hard earned pips - EVERYONE BEWARE.

Of course you won't have too much of an issue with medium-long term trades - but then why would you risk using a self-serving and
scandalous broker that prides itself on tiny spreads when you don't need them? The sad fact is that there are many retail brokers out
there using devious tactics to take your hard earned money, and Gomarkets unfortunately seems to be just another one of them.

Forex is hard enough to beat without unscrupulous brokers making it harder. Here's a chance for you to learn from someone else's mistakes.

Do yourself a favour a choose someone else.

why are the maximum number of lots that can be traded is 10? no other broker has such a low limit. I guess succesful traders are prevented from making larger profits as losers in large herds lose more ;)

Easy to setup the account , good spreads, no funny business with prices and no requotes.
So far recommended.