: I can identify as the same issue has given me endless sleepless nights.
On www.forexsupport.com I found out that some platforms might hold price back in
order to gain some pips, but as most of the big platforms are FCM regulated
this is almost impossible nowadays. I also learned that the charting
software receives their prices from a range of vendors and that not all the
prices are always deal able rates whereas the prices on the platform are
prices that they are willing to deal on. Remember that the platform has set
of it`s positions with other partners and are therefore bound to the prices