Hey SG.....pennies has been invaluable here these last couple days getting me reoriented and on my way to being back up to speed. I've got an Alpari MT4 platform up and running since the FXCM platform didn't want to give me an accurate read from my ADR indi.
I'll trade through Oanda once I fund my account as they have fairly low spread rates. While googleing brokers, I found that there are a couple/few with lower fixed rates, but I don't have any feedback from account holders to say whether the other brokers are reliable or not, so I'm sticking for now with Oandas variable but competitive spread rates.
I'm still shaky when it comes to lot sizes and risk, but again pennies is orienting me. It's not rocket science, but it's not second nature either. A bit of a slow process getting comfortable with the numbers.