Was anyone else unable to trade GBP/USD on exit poll?

[Guest Harry]

Was anyone else unable to trade GBP/USD on exit poll announcement? Platform on mobile and desktop wasn't allowing me to place any trades right on the exit poll announcement at 10pm - subsequently missed the 2% move up!....

[Caseynotes]

2 hours ago, Guest Harry said:

Was anyone else unable to trade GBP/USD on exit poll announcement? Platform on mobile and desktop wasn't allowing me to place any trades right on the exit poll announcement at 10pm - subsequently missed the 2% move up!....

For these big highly volatile events you need to use orders placed in the market before the event, all orders are handled on a first come first served basis so market orders (instant buy/sell) will be dealt with last and so suffer the biggest slippage of all if they actually get filled at all. More likely is your market order will be rejected as price has gaped so much by the processing of all the resting orders queued before it.

[dmedin]

7 hours ago, Guest Harry said:

Was anyone else unable to trade GBP/USD on exit poll announcement? Platform on mobile and desktop wasn't allowing me to place any trades right on the exit poll announcement at 10pm - subsequently missed the 2% move up!....

 

Retail traders get to fight over leftovers once the big piggies have filled their bellies.

Edited December 13, 2019 by dmedin

[Guest Johnny12]

I couldn't trade either, missed the 2 minute rise up

[Guest harryjellicoe]

Thanks for the help guys was wondering what went wrong and this solves it! Shall be better prepared next time. 

[dmedin]

On 13/12/2019 at 16:29, Johnny12 said:

I couldn't trade either, missed the 2 minute rise up

Did you miss the two-day crash back down as well?