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has anyone had the following issues with IB and know how to solve them:

1. slow downloading of charts. the rest of my internet seems fine, explorer and mozilla load quick enough. The charts in IB TWS load slowly and sometimes just hang with a blank screen.
2. Stops are traded through multiple times and not triggered.
3. Noisy charts full of Spikes
 
has anyone had the following issues with IB and know how to solve them:

1. slow downloading of charts. the rest of my internet seems fine, explorer and mozilla load quick enough. The charts in IB TWS load slowly and sometimes just hang with a blank screen.
2. Stops are traded through multiple times and not triggered.
3. Noisy charts full of Spikes

IB will no doubt give you the answers immediately.:)
 
has anyone had the following issues with IB and know how to solve them:

1. slow downloading of charts. the rest of my internet seems fine, explorer and mozilla load quick enough. The charts in IB TWS load slowly and sometimes just hang with a blank screen.
2. Stops are traded through multiple times and not triggered.
3. Noisy charts full of Spikes
Hi craigd

1. I've never liked or used TWS charts, although I understood they'd got better over time. I use quotetracker charts(free if you don't mind an banner ad or 2) linked in to TWS data feed.

2. Check your settings under Configure > Order> Presets > your instrument type. For example is the "Time in Force" Day or GTC (good till cancelled). Have you checked the box for allowing trades to be executed out of regular trading hours?

3. QuoteTracker have a spike removal tool, although I rarely have to use it. Also closing and restarting TWS every day corrects the volume data somehow.
 
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All,

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All,

A new product that works with Interactive Brokers, eSignal OnDemand Mini Futures. Provides the full eSignal software, EFS advanced tick charting, trading from the charts, a full DOM display powered by IB for trading.

Working with the CME, it has NO exchange fees as long as you use the integrated trading wth IB. Only $45 per month.

Check it out here:

eSignal OnDemand - Mini Futures

Chuck

Can it be connected with Amibroker additionally?

Thanks

Hittfeld
 
You don't ... you just start trading/charting the next one. Although TWS will warn you when you're getting close to the date where your current one expires.

Rollover would imply a proper charting product like Sierra Chart or Amibroker.
 
Is IB accessible via iPhone to trade?
If not, are there any other brokers which will allow me to trade via an iPhone?
 
I got a headache looking at the IB gugarly jargon website. Should be a lawyer not a trader to read that. Anyway I tried :LOL:

A newbie maths question on IB forex margins. Leverage rate is 40:1 so margin requirement is 2.5%. Therefore if I have an account of 10K USD, margin requirement for the pair dollar yen is 2.5K USD. But the calculation is not the same if I was trading eurusd or gbpusd.

And how to calc the pips before I will get a margin call if I trade 1 standard lot for example?

Any maths teacher help me out here :cheesy:
 
Can anyone who uses IB tell me if it is possible to programme an order that will do this when I am not at my screen:

1 Market opens
2 Price falls to a specified level
3 Price then rises to a point where a buy stop order is triggered
 
yes with the api, you cand do everything you want. You need the knowledge of programming however, which is not given to anybody.
in c++ you can do this.

you set up the api to have a notification of the price, you receive the quotes in a callback function, and then you do everything you want so in this case this would be a logic operation with some other calls to get the max, then wait the min price you want then another call to a function to set a stop buy.

this can be done.

by
Thierry
 
yes with the api, you cand do everything you want. You need the knowledge of programming however, which is not given to anybody.

Yes sadly something that I don't have.

I would have thought that a conditional order would do this but an error message comes up saying "A conditional order can only be submitted when the order type is set to limit or market". So it appears I can't use my buy stop. Any other ideas?
 
paper trade question

Morning just a quick one, im trying to trade my IB paper account, when i try to trade a pair, a box pops up stating

'' no trade permission - account requirement''

???? there is money in my real account

p.s how do i add another currency pair box to the fx trader panel

K
 
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Well thats the final Straw, GOOOOD BYE IB.

Slippage has cost me too much money, are they interested in the fact that time from execution on their platform to fill is measured in seconds not fractions of second, NO! they aren't. (Estimated 2500 Euro's) customer service just don't care. Gonna liquidate my account and go get a real broker that gives a damn and operates properly.

I want to say what I really feel but moderators would most likely ban me for my language
 
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