I was expecting the account opening to be a cakewalk. But it turned out to be more of a marathon than a sprint. To my surprise, the entire process took longer than I’d experienced with other brokers. Processing documents, transferring funds, everything seemed like a never-ending process. A couple of weeks rolled by, and there was a point I nearly gave up. But, something told me to hang in there - call it a hunch or trader's intuition, I decided to stick on.

One striking instance involved me trading EUR/USD. The ECB had announced a stimulus package, which traditionally depreciates the currency. However, on GTW’s platform, the price started spiking upwards against all my analysis and other live market feeds. To add insult to injury, the price increased exactly at the moment I put my trade, and it was extraordinarily higher than what other brokers were offering. The EUR/USD pair should have fallen substantially following the news, but, for some unexplained reason, on GTW's platform, the opposite happened.