On August 13, 2025, during the 22:00 candle on USD/JPY, my broker’s platform showed a sudden 14-pip wick for a fraction of a second — enough to sweep an obvious demand zone and trigger stops — that did not appear on any other broker’s feed. I confirmed this by checking multiple sources in real time, including ECN brokers and TradingView data.This spike lasted only milliseconds, perfectly targeting a cluster of stop-loss orders, then vanished back into normal price action. Every other broker’s chart remained clean, which strongly suggests this was a synthetic price injection, not legitimate market movement.For a broker to create fake ticks that only exist on their feed, especially in a B-book environment, is unacceptable and destroys trader trust. This is either gross negligence in price feed filtering or deliberate stop hunting.If you value your capital and want to trade without artificial price manipulation, avoid this broker at all costs. There are plenty of regulated ECN brokers who do not engage in this kind of behavior.Update [14 Aug 2025]: After my review, ActivTrades responded publicly asking me to contact support. I want to note that this spike was already verified against multiple other brokers’ data and did not occur elsewhere. The 14-pip wick lasted milliseconds, swept an obvious demand zone, and immediately reversed. If this was from a liquidity provider, I request that ActivTrades publish the exact LP tick data for USD/JPY at 22:00 UTC+1 on Aug 13, 2025, so traders can verify. Without that transparency, this remains an unexplained feed anomaly unique to ActivTrades — and that is a serious trust issue for active traders. Thank you
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