GBP Spread Up, Litecoin Down at FXCM in March 2019

FXCM Group today reported its  for March 2019, which showed mixed performance across its average ‎spreads and slippage rates for cryptocurrency and certain FX instruments.‎
 has published its price improvements/slippage statics during March 2019, which ‎showed the following highlights‏.‏

  • 69.2 percent of orders executed at price
  • 20.2 percent of orders executed with positive slippage
  • 10.6 percent of orders executed with negative slippage
  • The company also reported on its execution speed, which is measured from the time a customer’s order is received to the time of filling, averaged 21 milliseconds in March. Although an important factor in determining where orders are routed, but it is only one factor. Some brokers may provide good speed of execution but fail to provide price improvement or liquidity.
     has also advertised its price metric  during the Q1 2019:

  • 65.87% of all orders had no slippage.
  • 23.32% of all orders received positive slippage.
  • 10.82% of all orders received negative slippage.
  • 64.91% of all limit and limit entry orders received positive slippage.
  • 45.70% of all stop and stop entry orders received negative slippage.
  • According to figures stated in the report, the average spreads on the ‎EUR/USD, GBP/USD and XAU/USD pairs were 0.2, 0.8, and 35.1 pips respectively.
    For the cryptocurrency pairs, the ‎company averaged 25.7 pips on BTC/USD, almost unchanged from February. However, March’s spread was significantly lower when weighed against the 44 pips the company charged when it first reported spreads metrics for its bitcoin instrument in July 2018.
    For the Ethereum and Litecoin instruments, charged on average 1.8 and 0.54 pips, respectively, compared to 1.9 and 0.65 pips in the month prior.
    The  introduced the new asset type earlier last year when it began testing the service with its already installed Bitcoin offering.
    Additionally, the online brokerage disclosed its Effective Spread statics, ‎which displays its quoted spread for its top FX pairs, and compares ‎the figures with actual spreads, at which trades were already filled, with the ‎difference being displayed in a table key.‎
    The following table shows the exact figures in March:

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