I'm coming out of lurking in the background to post a bit here and there as I trade demo trying to prepare to return to trading live again once my profits are consistant enough to justify the risk of trading with real money again.
I wanted to chime in and say that I had the same frequent marketing phone calls from Alpari on my previous demo account and just ignored them but found them extremely irritating. Since I've reopened a new demo account after closing the one wherein I was recieving all those phone calls, I have yet to get a phone call from them on this new demo account and it's been open now for around a month.
I too have found the platform to be extremely reliable both now and before, but I'd never trade through Alpari with real money because they only give option to trade lot sizes of .01, .02, .03, .04 and .05 before jumping all the way up to 1.0 lot sizes, forcing the retail trader to take multiple entrys to get the actual lot amount size he or she needs or getting them in too deep with the 1.o for live accounts of less then $10,000. That's one reason I would never send them my money. The harrassing phone calls were another. Maybe they've given up on me, and aren't going to call again but I'll see.
Hope that helps pileit.
