Hello Gabiscriba,
> Instead, on the other account a trade was opened at 08.30 on USDCAD, but it was not opened on FTMO.
The FTMO Robots open positions when all of the indicators give signals in the same direction. If one of the indicators is not satisfied, the robot skips the entry.
The current FTMo robot version uses 6 entry indicators. The robot is created and tested on historical data from an FTMO account.
Other brokers have different data feeds (liquidity providers), and their data differs. It is completely possible for an indicator to give a particular signal on FTMO and not be triggered on another broker.
> Does this happen because of the spread difference?
The spread only affects the profit. It is because the FTMO robot does not have the “Max spread” protection enabled by default.
Having different deals with different brokers is not a huge problem. Even more, it is entirely possible to have the robot working better.
I was eager to test how the FTMO Robots work and run them on their symbols but on the M1 timeframe. I found out that the EURUSD robot works very well on M1.
The best practice is to first test the robot on a demo account on your chosen broker. You will find that some of the robots work better than others despite the different data. It is strongly advisable to use only tested robots on your live account.