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I was trading IB at that time, IDEALPRO behaved very well, I was even surprised about the tight-spreads (I have recorded the whole session in ButtonTrader and will measure the real-spread histogram during this session later in playback-mode). I did trade the Globex-FX-Futures thought, during...

No it is a second-userId for the same Account (Uxxxxx) where I'm talking about. I have indeed 2 Uxxxx accounts as well (so 4 in total with the second-userId's)...plus 2 simu-accounts makes 6 :) (nice to have them all to test ButtonTrader up-side-down).

I have this feature for more than 1 year, and I can confirm that you will pay 2 times $10 when you don't trade for 1 full month. Every account will take at least $10 commission. But when you trade in one Account for more than $30, you will not be charged for the second-account (so no $10)...

I think he points to the "release doc" (see link of a few posts back in this thread). The Final FX-article is planned for ending this month (maybe next). First some extra features for FX-Futures-trading will be added to ButtonTrader.

On 13-October-2005 I have sent the following screenshot to my trading-friends...But I'm not sure anymore that it will happen (when ECB starts raising-rates, and Fed stops before the end of 2006, it will probably reverse the H&S).

Well. I give up ! (last post from me on this). You are only posting false information. First this: "Strategy Runner is the only platform that holds stops on the server side" Then this: "dealing with IB you should get used to dealing with email support and not being able to talk to a...

As soon as you SEE the Order in the API-page in TWS itself, you can be sure the it is send to the IB-Server (if status is accepted).

Have you not read the post of Steve_IB ? All Order-types he mentioned are on the Server-Side, when sent by TWS, or sent by an API-program that sends it to TWS->IB-server. I'm very sure that most API-front-ends work that way...for sure ButtonTrader, Zero-Line, Ninja, BracketTrader and many...

Somewhere in January.

You can read the release-email of version 7.00.34.6 on the Website (download-page). http://www.buttontrader.com/content.asp?page=29 In short: it converts all your non-base currency budgets into two-side-contracts (FX-pairs). So if you have USD as base, and have also budgets in JPY, EUR, and...

There are a lot of Front-ends for IB (and more will come), but most are focused on Futures day-trading. Forex is relatively new to IB and its API-tools. And actually very complex for tools to implement (it took ButtonTrader 3 full months to develop its Forex-features). As far as I know is...

Well, you get non-base budgets with every trade in a non-base Instruments (if your base is EUR, then a trade in ES gives commission and P&L in USD). These non-base-budgets are shown in Lilac-FX-cash, which you can convert back to your base (EUR) with a Join (drag/drop to a Forex-trade) or with...

Yes that is correct. I believe, that you need $2000 to open a Margin-account at IB, but there are no minimum needs aside of that (so if your account falls below the $2000 you still are allowed to trade 25.000 in Forex margin). Note you can trade odd lots above the 25.000 (so 25.075 or 26.456).

Sure you can use the IB-default software, if it fits your needs. But because IB handles Forex-trading as Budget-transfers, it will not show FX-positions and it will also not show real-time P&L. If you are used to this way of trading it's no problem at all to use their TWS. But most traders like...

That does not have to be a MM...I actually think it is a ButtonTrader user, who has initially entered a 1 mln Order, but during the trade has Joined a 1 lot Lilac-FX-cash position, which he had in the opposite direction. (1mln minus 1 is 999,999). {You will see more of these odd-lots when...

When you do some searching on ET, you might learn that the MM's on the IB-ECN are these big-banks: UBS, DeutscheBank, JP Morgan Chase and BearnStearns. Also when you have an IB-account you can request this info per Currency-Pair (so you can see who the MMs are on that pair and what their...

Not completely correct! IB only has maximum Order-sizes, but you can easily enter 6 Orders of $5 Mln each at the SAME TIME, and you will get the $30 Mln that is quoted in the Bid/Ask. ButtonTrader does this even automatically for you, so when you have set your quantity on say $9 Mln it will...

I tested this (the spread during a news event), a few months back, with ButtonTrader, in which I can have FX-cash (IDEAL-pro) and FX-Futures (Globex) side-by-side with tickCharts. I was happy to see that the spread in Cash keeps at the same size or even better than the Futures. Both widen a...

Very good decision to split your funds into two Broker-accounts. No matter how well you selected your brokers, at some moment in time one will malfunction and you can use the other as backup for hedging your positions. I can only give comments about the IB-ECN (Interactive Brokers)...

Deutsche Autobahn :) :) Ah..now I understand what"car" means.... But seriously: at IB I can enter ANY order at ANY price, and can modify it to ANY price, it really does not matter where the Bid and Ask is, I can even place in in the middle of the Spread, so my Order becomes the Bid or...