WesternPips TradeMonitor has been discontinued for quite some time, so why discuss an outdated product? They have had a new product for a long time now — Private 7. If you’re interested in WesternPips, you should be looking at Private 7 instead.
It’s a funny situation, of course. Yesterday, a respected member created a separate thread dedicated to Westernpips Private 7 — and it disappeared somewhere. Apparently, the administration deemed the topic to be in violation of the rules. The same member then popped up in another thread, calling for people to “pay attention to Private 7.” Well, let’s pay attention.
Only here’s the catch: there’s nothing to pay attention to. The delay arbitration is dead, and Private 7 is not a “new product” — it’s a well‑packaged waste of time. Here’s why:
1. Brokers no longer slow things down. Previously, you could find a feed with a latency of 200–500 ms and “slice” it through a fast ECN. Now, the round‑trip latency for normal brokers is 5–25 ms. By the time WP7 blinks, the broker will have re‑evaluated the quotes three times and rejected your order via last‑look. Fast software won’t help against a fast broker.
2. Competition has eaten into the margins. Break-even latency today is 5–25 ms. There are already four players with equal latency on this field, and the individual expected profit drops by ~75%. If you’re not in the top 3 in terms of speed, you’re not an arbitrageur — you’re a sponsor of those who are in the top.
3. Toxic scoring identifies you faster than you open a trade. Stable profit with zero risk + a characteristic pattern within a 50–200 ms window = transfer to a pool with worse conditions, withdrawal refusal, or blocking. No software can bypass this — it’s not a technical issue, it’s the broker’s policy.
4. Retail arbitrage has become an institutional game. Colocation in LD4/NY4, FIX API with latency below 1 ms, direct feeds from CME and LMAX — all of this is available, but it costs so much that a retail trader with a WP7 license simply can’t compete. It’s like going out on the track with a Renault against a Formula 1 car — you can do it, but what’s the point?
So yes, Private 7 is technically, perhaps, not bad software. It just operates in a market that no longer exists. Like a fax in the era of messengers: the device is reliable, the paper is high‑quality, but you can’t send it to anyone — everyone has email now.
To the esteemed participant — greetings and respect for your persistence. But if the thread is deleted again, it won’t be censorship, but mercy.