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[Ultracombo]

Is it possible to add an option to partially close a position? 

[Ultracombo]

Also, I'd love to see 1broker's chart on Tradingview.

Because the chart we have on 1broker isn't good enough to make decisions and sometimes I hit the "update" button, but doesn't work (the candle doesn't update) :/

'current price'(blue) is overlapping my 'cursor price':
https://s23.postimg.org/5tgxropxn/chartprice.png

If you guys use (non-volume-weighted) why not calculate with any other chinese exchange?

[1Broker-CS]

Also, I'd love to see 1broker's chart on Tradingview.

Because the chart we have on 1broker isn't good enough to make decisions and sometimes I hit the "update" button, but doesn't work (the candle doesn't update) :/

'current price'(blue) is overlapping my 'cursor price':
https://s23.postimg.org/5tgxropxn/chartprice.png

If you guys use (non-volume-weighted) why not calculate with any other chinese exchange?

Hey, thanks for your submission, we will look into this..

Check out our post below for more information on the BTC / USD market and our plans for it in the future.

Thanks!

[1Broker-CS]

BTC/USD - A special market

If you are trading on our BTC/USD market you may have received this error message from time to time: “All of our allocated funds are currently used to hedge existing positions on this market. Please try again later!” We are aware that there is ongoing speculation and frustration in the community, and we hope that this blog entry gives some insight into why this error appears and what our future plans are.

Hedging BTC/USD positions

• You may have noticed that our BTC/USD market is quite “special”. It has a low maximum leverage, a tiny account-maximum of 20 BTC, a high overnight-financing rate and even a different profit/loss formula. There are multiple reasons for this:
• Compared to our other markets the Bitcoin price is quite volatile and the usual economic theories of inflation and efficient-market hypothesis cannot be applied one-to-one.
• Our traders are exceptionally optimistic about the Bitcoin price. While the ratio between long and short positions usually approximates 1:1 (906:1000 for the EUR/USD market with ~206k positions) the ratio for BTC/USD positions is stable at 1000:770. This means that there is a constant imbalance of too many long positions which cannot be matched against short positions. This means that hedging those positions efficiently is extremely important.
• Hedging long positions (even unleveraged ones) works by converting the USD value of the position size to Bitcoin. We can either allocate some of our own Bitcoin reserves and counter long positions (Problem: our reserves are limited) or we “borrow” USD and actually convert them on spot exchanges. (Problems: counterparty risks, interest charges, trading fees)
• To stay competitive we have to offer an extremely low spread and financing charges which leads to a small overall loss of around 0.1% of the trading volume for us.

The future

With our update on January 13th, we added multiple statistical tools to our backend, which will be used to closely track the activity on this market and to help us finding the right parameters. Depending on the market conditions we will adapt the spread and overnight charges more aggressively and move our revenue from -0.10% to 0.05% of the trading volume. However, we plan to use all of these profits to increase our reserves and to meet the growing demand. While higher fees might be unpleasant, it’s a necessary step to make the BTC/USD market future-proof. Once we are satisfied with the situation we will add more crypto pairs to our platform in the coming months.

Original post: https://1broker.com/?c=en/content/blog

[e-coinomist]

Latest update: https://1broker.com/?c=en/content/blog&id=48

What features would you be interested in seeing integrated?

I'd like to see an automated following. like chose a trader and auto copy their trades on a % base

Great suggestion! We are continually improving the social features based on user interaction and feedback. More feautres and improvements are slated for release throughout the new year.

I'd love to see this feature as well.  It's hard to copy trades that have been executed a while back.  Are you planning to introduce this feature currently?

We review all feature requests we receive from users, and more improvements to the social features are coming in the new year.

Add more data output into the API interface, like post trades. For transparency, and data enthusiasts. You know like on Poloniex where you have that trades history at the bottom of their page.

[1Broker-CS]

I've never seen anything like this.. why is not possible to see a live candle stick chart?? only from hour. That way is impossible to properly trade...

More updates to the API and charting tools are in development. 

[TRF]

After long time, i moved my trades to other broker. 1Broker need to improve platorm on Metatrader if want to became bigger. I see that 1Broker's account are around 12.000 : is time to improve e to move to other clients! Or new BTC Brokers based on Metatrader will surpass you!

Good Luck

[conandobtc]

Don't understand why people still use 1broker when there's much more pro services like Whaleclub and SimpleFX... 1broker has fallen way behind and just from this thread I see there are people complaining about price manipulation and losing money.

edit: links

- Whaleclub good all around, no MT4
- Simplefx has MT4, swap fees can get pretty high

[memequiserle]

Our first update of 2017 includes a lot of new features and improvements. We added an in-page support system and finally optimized the referral system - including a calculation tool and statistics to improve your referral experience!

Here is the complete changelog:

• Added an in-page support system.
• Fixed “reset” bug when inserting decimal numbers into input fields.
• Increased referral reward from 15% to 25%. (Until June 30th 2017)
• Increased “copy-trade” reward from 15% to 25%. (Until June 30th 2017)
• Shortened referral link.
• Added a calculation tool for estimating the rewards on the referral page.
• Added monthly, 6-month and yearly referral statistics.
• Added line charts for link clicks, the amount you earned and the accounts created under your referral link. This gives you a detailed insight of your performance.
• Changed input styling on iOS devices using Safari.
• Added limit parameter to bars.php which lets you limit your data to a certain amount of values.
• Added API Call Quota System.
• Added Heikin Ashi chart type.
• Added current price to browser title when navigating to market details.
• Swapped Bid/Ask label positions in the live chart.
• Newsletters received a completely new unsubscribe system.

https://1broker.com/?c=en/content/blog

what is about copy trade and commision referal 15-25%
25% from deposit, or 25% from lost in my referal, or 25% from wager(volume transaction trade)
and how copy trade system, and trading can use metatrader 4 or not

[exxe]

what is about copy trade and commision referal 15-25%
25% from deposit, or 25% from lost in my referal, or 25% from wager(volume transaction trade)
and how copy trade system, and trading can use metatrader 4 or not

The copy-trade system works similar to the referral system and pays the same rewards: 25% of the spreads.
Metatrader 4 is not supported by our platform.

best regards!

[layoutph]

I lose 0.020btc lastnight. I dont know if this is intentional  or just their website bug. Imagine I opened a long position against a bullish candle position so it should be a gain. But it doesn't credit to me and keeps giving me a negative store.

Onetime I put two simultaneous order: a short and a long order, against a bearish position. But to my surprise both gives me a negative score, when the one position should give me a gaining score. I read a couple of horror stories of 1broker from reddit, and I think its true.

Their service looks promising, but its not. try it your self.

[Emerge]

Don't understand why people still use 1broker when there's much more pro services like Whaleclub and SimpleFX... 1broker has fallen way behind and just from this thread I see there are people complaining about price manipulation and losing money.

edit: links

- Whaleclub good all around, no MT4
- Simplefx has MT4, swap fees can get pretty high

I agree with this.. I've used 1Broker for a while now, but still not much has really garnered my interest compared to WC and SFX..

[exxe]

I lose 0.020btc lastnight. I dont know if this is intentional  or just their website bug. Imagine I opened a long position against a bullish candle position so it should be a gain. But it doesn't credit to me and keeps giving me a negative store.

Onetime I put two simultaneous order: a short and a long order, against a bearish position. But to my surprise both gives me a negative score, when the one position should give me a gaining score. I read a couple of horror stories of 1broker from reddit, and I think its true.

Please contact us directly (and provide the position ID) if you have any questions regarding your trades; especially if you are not sure why the position closed with a loss.

Based on your description it is hard to tell what happened here, but I guess that you did not consider the spread, the difference between the bid and ask price. This causes positions to open at a small loss. Especially when holding positions only for a short amount of time this can lead to unexpected trading results.

I agree with this.. I've used 1Broker for a while now, but still not much has really garnered my interest compared to WC and SFX..

I'm sorry that you did not like our service. Feel free to give us input of what we can improve.

[exxe]

Update February 13^th: Higher Limits!

We continuously improve the performance of our trading engine and our risk management strategies. This allows us to increase our limits from time to time. With today's update we raised the maximums for nearly all markets. We also adapted the overnight financing rates for our BTC/USD market.

You can find a more detailed insight of these changes here: https://1broker.com/?c=en/content/blog&id=53

[1Broker-CS]

Update February 26th: A new era begins

Over the past year we have constantly added new features to make our trading platform a more social place, where people can share and discuss their trades. We have collected a lot of information and received extremely helpful feedback from the community. With today’s update we made some drastic improvements to our platform:


Automatically copy traders

It is no longer possible to copy individual trading ideas. Instead we switched to a user-based system, where traders can be automatically copied with a fixed amount. We are extremely excited about this change since it allows successful users to build a stable followership easier than ever before. With the help of our traditional reward system, your knowledge can be monetized extremely efficiently.


A beautiful new profile page

Obviously the profile page is one of the most important things for a social trading platform. With this in mind, we put a lot of love and time into a complete redesign. It now gives an insight of the trader’s monthly performance, followership and trading style with the help of beautiful charts. A custom profile picture and an “about me” text makes it possible to present yourself to your potential copiers.


Notification System

Our new notification system will always keep you up-to-date. Important events like when someone copies you or a deposit gets credited to your account it will be prominently displayed.


BTC/USD and the allocated funds

One of the more frustrating things on our platform is the “All allocated funds are used ...” error message when trying the enter the BTC/USD market; we know! Especially in times of high volatility it is important to know if you can enter the market beforehand. While we cannot fix the root issue (see our previous blog post), we added basic information to the market details page. It shows the percentage of our allocated funds in use.


We also made dozens of minor improvements and fixes with this update. Here is a list of the most noticeable ones:

• Improved and minimized UI on the support page.
• It’s now easier to navigate to the own profile page.
• Hovering a Bitcoin amount with the mouse will now show the full precision amount.
• Enabled CDN caching for all static pages. This reduces the page loading times by up to 90%.
• Improved visuals when a comment is deleted.
• Fixed a bug where nothing is displayed when the own comment is deleted from your trading idea.
• Moved from HTTP 302 to HTTP 301 redirects to activate browser-level caching.
• Completely redesigned the landing page of the trading panel.
• Improved the size of some buttons on mobile devices.
• Increased maximum AFK detection time from 15 to 30 minutes.
• Fixed bug where exchange rate toggle button is not displayed on mobile devices.
• Fixed issue with spinner buttons in currency input fields on Firefox.
• Renamed “Open Price” to “Entry Price” across the interface for consistency reasons.
• The “current price” in the HTML title is now properly formatted as a fixed decimal string.
• Use Math.floor instead of round in UI for currency amounts to avoid mysterious “insufficient funds” error.
• Multiple performance improvements and cleanup of unused code.

PS: Today Cloudflare announced that they were affected by a serious memory leak bug where sensitive information was leaked in some cases. We carefully analyzed the technical details of this issue and can announce that 1Broker was not affected. Nevertheless, this is a good reminder to use secure and unique passwords and to enable two-factor authentication whenever possible.

For past updates, please refer to our blog.

Happy trading!

[FlensGold]

Actually I never saw the “All allocated funds are used ...” Message more often than today. Trying since ~8 hours and even when the price went down I did not had the chance to jump in.

[TRF]

Hey! Website is down! I've a lot of position open on SNAP and i don't want to go overnight!

[TRF]

Hey! Website is down! I've a lot of position open on SNAP and i don't want to go overnight!

Ok. Website work well again 😅

[exxe]

With yesterday's update we added a copy trader page, which contains basic information about this new system:
https://1broker.com/?c=en/content/copy-trader

As always, we also deployed a lot of other smaller improvements and changes. Here is the full changelog:

• Added badge to mobile UI when there are unread notifications.
• Bumped withdrawal fee to 0.0015 BTC because of the increased Bitcoin network fees.
• Upgraded Bitcoin daemon to the newest version.
• Outgoing transactions are now RBF (replace-by-fee) ready.
• Added warning text to the copy dialog, when it is possible to run out funds.
• Changed the way shared trade and trader lists are ordered.
• Made the 1Broker logo an actual link instead of using an onclick handler.
• Added profit/loss percentage to position close notification for shared trades.
• Trading idea page (shared trade) now shows if Trailing Stop Loss is enabled.
• Links in comments are now clickable.
• Added a throttle to AJAX poll if the internet connection is weak.
• Fixed paging issues when navigating back/forward with the web browser in certain components.
• Added a basic future rollover system. (More updates coming soon)
• Dozens of minor UI fixes and improvements.

 

[O4karitO]

Noticed a very disturbing thing recently. I previously thought this to be an accident but noticed this happening too many times during the last 2 weeks. When trading cryptocurrency BTCUSD, quite often on a live chart you can see a spike(5-10$ height) that lasts around 1 second. '
Such spikes are not present in any other major exchanges(including bitstamp - the source of 1broker prices), only on 1broker.
And, even though, spike top is the highest point within a few minutes it is sometimes(when it is a single spike) NOT displayed inside a corresponding candle inside the "hour" tab as high.
One can only assume that they are used to trigger stop losses, because they most often happen near sr levels.
In other words, according to hour tab stop loss price may never be reached(not even close) but stop loss was triggered.