I started trading on Deriv a few months ago and things were mostly fine during calm market periods. But then I hit a major economic news release and everything felt different.
My spreads on EUR/USD went from the usual 0.5 pips to something closer to 3 or 4 pips. My stop loss got hit at a worse price than I expected. And when I reached out to support to ask what happened, the response just said it was “due to market conditions.”
I started wondering if this is just how Deriv operates during volatility, or if other platforms are more stable. I also realized I have no real way to compare Deriv’s behavior to other brokers without just trying them all myself, which seems wasteful.
That’s when I remembered GlobeGain has broker reliability data. It got me thinking—if you can actually see how different brokers perform during these specific high volatility moments, wouldn’t that tell you a lot about whether a broker is worth sticking with?
Has anyone here tested multiple brokers during news events and noticed real differences in execution quality and spread stability? How do you actually separate the brokers that hold up from the ones that just punish you at the worst times?