Worrisome

I've been happy with CMS FX's demo account and was thinking I'd enter a real money account if all my positions work out.

However, a very worrisome thing happened on Friday. The charts were unavailable.

hmmm

I used the VT trader online help forums and it indicated a connectivity problem with CMS. Well, as the market is closed I don't *really* care as long as the charts are back before market open on Sunday.

Well, it is well past market open on Sunday and the charts are unavailable. For all I know there could have been a massive reverse that I could have acted on... but as I can't see the blasted charts, I don't know.

So, in googling around to see if maybe there might possibly be a problem with my wireless router I found this site: goforex.net

They have reviews of various brokers and the CMS review has a few posts on their unavailability. I'm going to dig around some more (goforex looks to be like amazon where competitors can post all sorts of odd stuff), but if turns out that CMS has problems with unavailability, I'll be going with another broker.

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Digging around for more broker reviews -

forexrealm.com

forexbastards.com

As of 7pm EST, CMS FX charts are still unavailable.

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As of 8:11pm EST, CMS FX charts are still unavailable.

This is intolerable.

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Looking at the following brokers:

liteforex.org

finex.com

rfxt.com

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As of 10:30pm EST, CMS FX charts are still unavailable.

Not gonna put any money with CMS.

Testing out liteforex... little more work to get their stuff setup. I should have things set up ok in a day or two.

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OK, this is just silly. At 8:20am EST this morning I was able to get into the CMS charts. I think I'll just watch the trades that I had put in and once they finish I'll just drop CMS. But that isn't the silly part.

First, all my indicators are gone. That happens on VT trader when one upgrades, but I didn't upgrade....=\

Second, after putting in all of my indicators again, I'm going through my positions and notice AUD/USD's 5/7 bar... hi: 0.8257, close: 0.8257, open: -0.0005 (!!!), and low: -0.0005 (!!!).

Note, that error only shows up on the chart. My open position's window shows that there must have been a reversal as my profit is much less.

This is nutty. Every time I think I'm being silly for testing out a system or a broker for so long, something like this happens and makes me go...hmmmmmm.