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Answer: Yes it is your trading. only over news might oanda be an issue. you should not trade spot on a sub hour timeframe unless you are a professional.
so you dont need a propper ecn if you are just dabbling. look at the costs involved. also if you look into dukascopy you might change your mind.
How do futures have higher comissions? For example, EUR/USD you can trade 1 contract that control 125,000 EURO for around $5 rountrip commission. Even with one pip spread on Forex, this will cost you much more. The spread might be lower on ECN brokers, but then you pay a commission on top that will still be more than trading futures.
Just because liquidity is higher in forex, does not mean you will have issues in futures unless you trade 100's of contracts a day and I would guess that most people do not have to worry about that.
I'm a bit of a neophyte on forex, so perhaps I'm mistaken on the commission, but my experience in futures shows very illiquid markets in the currencies and a spread that is often more than 1 tick even in the 6E.
Do you think it is easier or tougher to buy bid and sell ask in forex via ECN that in comparable futures markets?
Can't tell you that. I stopped forex a long time ago and focus on just futures. Many people just look at the "free" forex trading and don't realize how much they really pay with the spreads. If you trade something else than EURO in forex, the spreads can easily be 3 to 5 pips. 5 pips on 100K, means you pay $50 in comissions. 10 times more than futures.
I agree with LukeGeniol, I spent lots of time reading and asking questions about a good ECN forex broker and Interactive Brokers, Dukascopy, MB Trading and FXCM Active Trader seemed to be always mentioned near the top. Of course you will always have detractors who have had bad experiences but overall all these seemed fairly good.
I eventually choose MB Tading as at the time I needed MT4 and though Dukascopy has MT4 its open for demo. The MBT support has been excellent so far. I now am moving to Ninja 7 so I'm glad I choose MB.
The rebate idea was a factor for me but at the time I just seemed to prefer MB..........either will I think serve you well. Hope this helps a little.........