Recent content by bpatrick

The spread for EUR/AUD is now currently at 12.

I was on IB yesterday watching EUR/AUD and the spread was 13 whereas on Oanda it's normally 7.

SideShowBob, I do have a question. Did you recode the forms to not show forms or did you just use the modules. Thanks

I don't have any specific questions at this moment. I just wanted to know if anyone was doing that. I guess I'll have to recode it without screens. Thanks

I've loaded IB's Visual Basic API and I'm a bit dissapointed so far There are screens to do just about everything. Is anyone on this board using IB's API for VB and not using the screens.

I know VB6 preety well but I'm rather new to VB net. I would like to use the OANDA API but I want to make sure I can use it before I start shelling out money. Go to fxtrade.oanda.com and click on the API and look at the docs for VB net. When I look at them it seems like something is missing. The...

How wide do the spreads go at IB ?

Doesn't this imply that you need to know C++ If you look at the Docs for VBnet the Properties and Methods aren't fully written out. It seems you have to guess how to write the Properties and Methods. One thing I like about IB is that they let you use their API for free using their demo version...

Here's what I wrote to Oanda API department and here is also the response which made absolutely no sense to me. It seems they expect anyone who codes VB to also know C++. If anyone understands this email response please explain it to me. I sent them another email but haven't received a reply...

gwac, Maybe you can give me better info than what I got when I called IB. The guy on the help desk told me that the spread never goes above 2 pips. Is that the truth or BS ? Thanks

piphunter Which Oanda Software are you using. Vb or C++ ? Thanks

If you make a lot of trades let's say 300 per month wouldn't IB be rather expensive. At 5 Dollars per trade that would be 1500 dollars. If you trade 600 trades per month that would be 3000 dollars.

Oanda only let's you use their API for free if you trade 12 million per month.

The problem with IB is that they charge a commission. It's $5.00 per trade under a certain amount. If you make 100 trades a month that's $500.00 plus the spread. Not much different than Oanda's charge of $600.00.