Requotes in Forex: What They Are and How to Avoid Them
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You click buy. A popup appears: "Price has changed. New price 1.0853. Accept or cancel?" That is a requote. Your broker refused to fill your order at the price you clicked and is offering a different one. Requotes are annoying, disruptive, and often a sign of a sub-optimal broker or model. Understanding why they happen and how to eliminate them is a quick win for any active trader.
What Technically Happens in a Requote
You submit a market order at price X. The broker receives it, then checks if it can fill at X. If X is no longer available (market moved, book emptied), the broker has two choices: (A) fill at the next available price (normal slippage) or (B) reject the order and send back the new price asking you to re-confirm (requote).
Requotes are primarily a Market Maker behavior. MM brokers control quotes they produce, so they can reject yours and offer a new one. ECN brokers generally do not requote — they fill at the next available price from the book (which may be slipped, but never requoted). If you are seeing frequent requotes, you are almost certainly on an MM model.
Requotes vs Slippage: The Key Difference
Slippage is a fill at a different price than expected — you get executed, but worse. Requote is a rejection — the order is not executed, you are asked to accept new terms. Slippage is a speed/liquidity cost; requote is a workflow interruption.
Positives on slippage: always gives you a fill, eventually. Negative on slippage: you might not know the exact cost until after. Positives on requote: you see the new price before accepting. Negatives on requote: you lose time (you may miss the entry by seconds as price moves further), and if trading an automated system, requotes stop execution completely. For active traders, both are problems but requotes are usually worse because they break the timing of your strategy.
When Do Requotes Happen Most?
During fast-moving markets, volatile news releases, and at market open. If EUR/USD is jumping 10 pips in 5 seconds, MM brokers struggle to keep quotes stable, and requotes become common. Mid-liquidity hours (European morning, NY session) have fewer requotes; Asian session overnight and news-time spikes have more.
If you trade with limit orders, you will never see a requote — limits either fill at your price (or better) or do not fill at all. Requotes only happen on market orders at MM brokers. ECN and true STP brokers usually fill you through the book with slippage; they do not re-ask.
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How to Eliminate Requotes Entirely
Three-step fix: (1) Switch to an ECN or true STP broker. Real ECN brokers do not issue requotes — structurally impossible. Pepperstone Razor, ICMarkets Raw, Tickmill Pro — no requotes. (2) Use limit orders instead of market orders where possible. Set your entry as "Buy Limit at 1.0849" rather than "Buy Market." If price touches 1.0849, you fill; if not, no trade.
(3) Enable "maximum deviation" in your platform settings. This tells the broker: "Accept my order as long as the fill is within X pips of my requested price." If fill would be worse than X, the order is cancelled silently rather than popping a requote. MT4/MT5 call this "Slippage tolerance." Set it to 1–3 pips depending on volatility. No popups, no workflow interruption — either a good fill or a silent cancel.
Why Some Brokers Use Requotes as a Feature
Market maker brokers claim requotes "protect the client" from bad fills. This is true in theory but suspicious in practice. If the broker cares about client execution quality, they would fill at the best available price silently. Requotes serve two real functions: (1) rejecting orders that would be unprofitable for the broker, and (2) creating friction that slows down fast-reacting clients.
Legitimate use of requotes is minimal — one might argue for requotes during extreme gaps (e.g., SNB 2015), but modern ECN infrastructure handles these via deviation caps, not popups. If a broker boasts about requotes as a "feature," treat it as a signal of the MM business model and evaluate accordingly. Pure ECN brokers simply do not have this problem.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do ECN brokers ever requote?
True ECN brokers structurally cannot requote — they route orders directly to a public book, not through a dealing desk. If you experience "requotes" at an ECN-branded broker, they are likely running a hybrid MM model under the ECN label. Demand clarification from the broker or switch.
Can I disable requote popups?
In MT4/MT5, tick "Enable maximum deviation from quoted price" and set to 1–3 pips. If fill is within that range, order executes silently. If outside, order cancels silently. No popup. This works on any broker, MM or ECN, but it only removes the popup — it does not eliminate the underlying requote logic.
Why does my scalping strategy fail with requotes?
Scalping requires instant fills at or near your clicked price. Requotes delay execution by 1–3 seconds (reading popup, accepting), during which price often moves further. A scalp setup with a 3-pip target can easily become unprofitable if requote delay adds 2 pips of adverse movement. Eliminate requotes before scaling a scalping strategy.
Are requotes illegal?
No, but they must be transparent. Regulators (FCA, ASIC, CySEC) require brokers to disclose execution practices including requote rates. Asymmetric requoting (only requoting when client would profit, filling when client would lose) has been fined historically. Stick to top-regulated brokers to minimize risk.
Is a requote ever good for me as a trader?
Rarely. In fast-moving markets, a requote at a slightly better price than the original might occasionally save you. But statistically, requotes happen asymmetrically — they tend to come when the market is moving against your intended entry. Over time, the cumulative effect is negative. Eliminate them for consistency.
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