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That figures. kiwi_trader is another troll and kid with a dirty mouth. There is no reason to use the F word. Using it only shows a lack of vocabulary, lack of discipline, lack of maturity, and lack of class. The word really should be filtered in the forum.

Oanda... 1. easier platform 2. more of a bucket shop 3. can trade smaller and variable contract amounts IB... 1. more security of funds (forex/future funds swept to securites every night allowing your funds to be protected by SIPC) 2. major forex broker 3. difficult-to-follow forex...

exactly to Andriy: it's hard enough to make a profit with forex so I cannot see paying extra for 3rd party software. However, if I'm losing money trading forex due to execution problems on IB's platform, perhaps it is worth it.

No, blue, you are not alone... I've lost plenty of money trading forex because of my inability to keep up with forex trades on IB. Unfortunately, it was real money. Now, I have no problem trading stocks or futures with IB's TWS platform, but the forex part on IB's TWS is just confusing as...

This whole forex trading at IB is confusing because of the way it is or is not calculated and lack of onscreen TWS information to follow your trade. Perhaps, I'll just stick to Oanda for forex trading. IB really needs to make forex trading simpler. They could learn from Oanda's platform.

Would someone from IB please address these problems?

Interactivebrokers has a "Hidden" checkbox on its order forms. Doesn't that give us anonymity?

Whenever I use IDEALPRO to trade forex at Interactivebrokers, I will make a trade such as selling 50,000 units of USD/CHF. To close out my position, I then, of course, buy back 50,000 units of USD/CHF. After that, when I view my account window, I sometimes see something like -$32.50 CHF in...

I also wish forex would show "Change" amounts and P/L amounts in Market Data columns (yes, I know you can see P/L by opening Acct Window).

I see . Thanks.

I believe you because whenever they liquidate a forex position of mine for lack of margin, the email from IB always states something like GBP liquidated at 1.92, instead of what it should be, such as 1.9244. Wish they'd fix this.

I figure it is just slippage. I prefer to make sure that it is filled and that is why I prefer a stop over stop limit order. Getting filled is more important to me than the price, thus I believe I am correctly using a stop order.

Can someone tell me why my Stop was executed 4 pips away at 219.79, instead of 219.75? Here's my audit trail from InteractiveBrokers. ModifyOrder MsgType OrderCancelReplaceRequest SendingTime 20060807-14:15:30 ClientOrderID 1900495398.1 OrigClOrdID 1900495398.0 AuxPrice 219.75...

If people are not successful, then daytrading is definitely NOT the way to go. Fact is that daytrading is even more stressful and nerve-racking, and more prone to execution errors since you must react quickly. OTOH, when you swing or position trade, you just set your trade and go and do...

By giving you larger wins to cover the losses. Note if you have to increase your win/risk ratio to more than 8:1, then you need to rethink other parts of your trading, such as improving your entry and exit points OR changing to trading a different instrument. No one thing can make you a...

I think it's all about finding your niche. Some may be good at stocks, others good at forex, and others may be better at futures. There are many ways to win. The most important rule, IMHO, is trading small enough to allow for a large drawdown, in case that happens. You also want reasonable...

I agree. I sucked at forex, and find futures much easier to trade, and only became profitable after switching from forex to futures. I also find futures easier to trade than stocks. I still trade forex occasionally, and, for some unknown reason, now find trading forex simpler since trading futures.

Thanks for the link. Can't wait til the webmaster starts posting them in percentages, though.

I'm sure I clicked the apply at the bottom afterwards, but I'll check it again.

That's not exactly what I was talking about, but thanks for pointing that out. The Trader Dashboard features are even better than what I was asking for. I'd looked at TraderDashboard in the past, but missed these features.