The bad trading conditions were like a swarm of eager mosquitoes, consistently pestering and depleting my trading profits. The spreads were to blame here, as wide as a football field, and distinctly more expansive than what I was comfortable with. While on the topic of discomfort, their platform glitches were exactly that - an uncomfortable distraction during high stakes trading. Its performance clocked slower than a snail trying to run a relay race, detrimental in a forex market where time is everything!