I use Alpha Bank's web trading services as my online trading software to carry out my trading orders. I'm not a fan of dealing with banks when trading but I have opened my trading account there long time ago and I expected to be the easiest way to trade the Greek Market. Big mistake. Compared to overseas' trading platforms and professional web trading services, the Alpha Bank's web trading platform is miles behind. However, I was determined to give it a shot at least in the beginning. Now, after 2 weeks of active trading I am encountering a huge problem when accessing the stock data feed, and that is an occasional web browser's crash. What is even more disturbing is that I cannot login again once the browser has crashed, until 30 or 60 minutes have lapsed! And we all know how important time is in trading!

I've been trading the FOREX using the OANDA's trading platform for a couple of years and I recently came across the trading software called MetaTrader. MetaTrader looks a bit like Metastock and includes charting tools, indicators and a system tester for backtesting purposes. The FOREX trader can also program an automated trading bot like FAP Turbo to execute the trading orders according to the trading system.