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  • Feb 18, 2026 7:35pm Feb 18, 2026 7:35pm
Basically, there is no way to "solve" the problem. Slippage is part of how the market works.
The Broker/s are not necessarily your enemy. You want to buy and sell currencies, they provide that service. The market does not necessarily have the price you want every time you want to transact. They are your intermediary with the market. Do no expect them to lose money while providing a service.
A good broker will give the best price available in that millisecond, a bad Broker will take advantage and slip you a bit further of you order price.
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  • Feb 20, 2026 1:53pm Feb 20, 2026 1:53pm
Quoting jeuro2.0
Basically, there is no way to "solve" the problem. Slippage is part of how the market works. The Broker/s are not necessarily your enemy. You want to buy and sell currencies, they provide that service. The market does not necessarily have the price you want every time you want to transact. They are your intermediary with the market. Do no expect them to lose money while providing a service. A good broker will give the best price available in that millisecond, a bad Broker will take advantage and slip you a bit further of you order price.
Yeah, I mostly agree with that. Slippage is just part of real market conditions, especially with scalping. On demo or even different account types, execution can feel smoother, but once you抮e on a real, live server with real liquidity, small delays and price changes start to matter a lot.
You can抰 really 搒olve?slippage, only try to reduce it a bit with better latency and avoiding crazy volatility.
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  • Feb 20, 2026 5:43pm Feb 20, 2026 5:43pm
also one thing to consider is that you will *always* have tighter spreads and lower slippage at the opening of a bar, because that's when all algorithmic trading setups that rely on open bar open/close orders
I made a test using MT5 and their historical spreads and I found out that my guess was right
maybe try to adapt your scalping strategy to open trades on open bars ?
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  • Feb 20, 2026 5:53pm Feb 20, 2026 5:53pm
also there is the fact that millions of people will trade at the *exact* same time as you.
It's not like volatility algorithms differ from EA to EA. *every* EA trades on high volatility peaks, unrelated on how they define volatility peaks
so you compete with million of people that willl trade at the exact same time as you...
obviously it will not work that way
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  • Feb 22, 2026 1:44am Feb 22, 2026 1:44am
You can抰 get rid of slippages. They will always be here, and it抯 totally normal. This is live trading environments, it抯 not simulation. And don抰 think that if you change the broker the slippages will magically disappear. In fact, the bigger the lot size you trade, the larger the slippages are. This is again normal, because in order for your position to be executed, the system in the background is looking for an exact match for the price and executed. When small size lots, it抯 easier to find a match. When it抯 a bigger lot size, it gets harder to find a match.
So, try trading with small lots. This thing can work.
But what works the best is to try to make your strategy resistant to small slippages.
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  • Last Post: Feb 25, 2026 4:56pm Feb 25, 2026 4:56pm
Quite common with scalping EAs, actually.
Scalping systems are extremely sensitive to execution conditions. Even small differences between accounts can change performance. Compare trade logs from both accounts (entry price, spread, slippage) - that will usually reveal the reason.
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