Help on following shops

[Pacmar]

Why would a broker stop you, I thought thay make money on the spread of each trade.

I trade mostly news events, which means I'm usually in and out in about 10 - 15 minutes.

[thorr]

Originally Posted by dguy

A few years ago we scalped O-a-n-d-a for about 2 months before they stopped us but we took over $100k in profits before they did. We did this at many different brokers but all stopped us right away except O-a-n-d-a. We noticed that shortly after O-a-n-d-a shut us down, their datafeed go much quicker. We cost them a lot of money.

How long did the scalps last, on average? Are we talking seconds here or minutes?