Recent content by iBelgium

Although this thread is 3 years old, I'll answer anyway. I use IB and trade ES. It's not 0.25 slippage. If you look at your trade report the execution price is the price traded. Almost always this is my limit price. However, the price in my account gets adjusted with the commission I paid. This...

I'm new to options, but I'm already thinking about different strategies. Let's say, I predict the SPX to go up or down 5% in 3 months or less, is there a way to benefit from this? So I don't know the direction of the market, so I'm going to buy a call and also a put option. The only thing I...

I read different articles that claim that on average you make more money than swing trading. At first, this sounded understandable since day trading costs more time. But looking for example at the current uptrend, I don't see how day traders beat swing traders. As a swing trader, the best...

My IB ticket has been answered. As jharmon points out, the difference is between native or calculated index prices. Calculated index prices are calculated by IB and update every tick but may not include delayed transactions, busts, late-reported trades and combos. Native index prices uses the...

Well, I'm not a scalper but I think it's a big problem no matter. Especially if you start drawing trendlines on candles that aren't correct. The biggest joke is that I'm paying to get this incorrect data.

Third party? This is Interactive Brokers, I pay a monthly fee for this data. Can anyone check the candles on his screen and tell me if they see other data?

Hi, I use Interactive Brokers TWS and noticed that the chart for the SPX Index is not the same as the one Yahoo or Ameritrade has. I made a screenshot and highlighted some candles that clearly differ from the official one. You can see the Yahoo chart for the S&P500 Index here. So does...

I'm not a professional. Level 2 gives me market depth, how can I benefit from this? Can you clearly spot a support or resistance level with this? Or how do you guys use this?

What Market Data Subscriptions do I need to have such a screen on my PC? I was asking the same question in a new thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?threads/new-ib-account-what-market-data-required-for-es.296389/

Hi, I recently switched to Interactive Brokers what Market Data do I need to trade ES? The market data assistant gave me the following screen: