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Hi danger66, just a suggestion: ask Capital Forex Pro, wether they are offering StrategyRunner (SR) as a Frontend for CX. If not, give them a hint that some competitors do offer SR. SR should fit your need, at least you can program anything through the SR API. Joerg

Dear IB, I have a question, concerning handling of margin calls at IB forex plattfor IDEALPRO. I am sure, the answer will be of interst for many ET member trading at IB. Here the question: I hope it never happens, but I am wondering about how a margin call at IDEALPRO is handled...

Hello, I currently doing Autotrading Forex at interactive Brokers using IDEALPROs datafeed, TradeStation and HyperOrder autotrading software. I am looking for an alternative solution on a larger Forex-plattform, exspecially Currenex. As I read, new version of SR now also support...

sorry, just to be accurate the peak happens Wednesday 17:30 EST or in my timezone Wednesday 23:30 CET. Joerg

The peak happens Wednesday 17:30 seconds after the IB maintainance time ended and IDEALPRO opends again. Sure that the plattform was a 'startup' issue. I always place LMT orders. My autotrading implementation always pace BUY order at current ASK and Sell orders at current BID price...

Exactly this happens. The price was so far away from fair price ( over 3% !), that I immediatly closed the position and corrected the data in my Gloabal server. Another (expensive) problem occours, that my autotrading strategies get completly mixed up by the failed data/trade. No fun...

Sorry 'Gambler' for disturbing/misusing your thread. One Question to SteveIB concerning margin: For me it would help, I IB not calculation double margin, when trading pairs, which don't contain the base currency? Example, if base currency is USD and you trade long EURGBP, margin...

Yes, on wednesday I come into position at 'moon'-prices. So I was exspecting a 'trade bust' of cource, thats normal (see trade bust policy at IB). But not in this way at especially at this time it was handled(see last post), thats why I am obset. Forex Trading is 5.5 days 23,5 hour a...

Sorry Steve, is it really off topic? You talked about 'blowing account over weekend', this was, what makes my angry, because my memory of the last weekend is still fresh. We are talking about leverage and risk of currency trading. IB puts the risk on my account by placing...

Hello, just to shortly sum up what happend: I got the trade bust notification by email on fridey 45 minutes after market close. There was standing .... " These trades were not removed from the account and are being removed from the account this evening. Removing these transaction(s)...

Hello Steve_IB, what about different margin requirement for daytrading and positions over weekend, this would fit mainly the need for the short term trader looking for higer leverage and your saftety. ??? Concerning your statement 'blowing account over weekend' I would like to show you...

Thanks Fibo, ff you do scalping with many trades/day generating a relative high volume (~$300-400Mio/Month), a volume fee will never be a good choice. Imagine: For the fee of one month (400Mio/$25k *1.25 = $20.000) I would prefer to hire a programmer for 1-2 month. Wondering how the...

Thanks for the info, very interesting, but TradeBolds pricing modell really don't fit my needs. At it cheapest 'Level E' they are charging (after 500 monthly) PLUS $1.25 / per $25.000 So for a standard trade at IDEALPRO of $125.000 I would pay $2.5 to IB, that fair $6.25 to...

Hello Futures_Man, are you talking about TradeStation - Currenex connectivity via StrategyRunner ???? I would be very interested, I you have or you may refer to more informations? I currently do TradeStation - IB's Idealpro for Autotrading FX and preparing for the 'next step'...

I differs a little bit from day to day, but when you take a look between 5pm and 8pm it will increase to 3 pips, stays there untill 8-10 am. Only during European business hours its at 2 pips. You can see it under http://fxtrade.oanda.com/spreads/recent_spreads.shtml#eur_chf Joerg

Thanks, at IB I pay $2.50 for €100.000 (~ $125.000 ), so this is pretty close. I took a look at other platforms, also HotSpotFX, but I did not have found a solution for what I have currently implemented and works really superb. Running my strategy at TradeStation with IBs...

For me it's not the question of being transparent or not. (I don't have to calc the Commisions ;-), I just pay it ) For me its just a question of the TOTAL COSTS for a trade. Imagine you trading a scalping strategy, where AvgTrade ~ 1.5-2 times the spread. e.g. I trade EURCHF...

No, if your trade volume is $500.000 you always have to pay $500000*0.00002 = $10 above the minimum of $2.50 Commisions always increasing liniear with the trade volume with factor 0.0002 Yes, you can, but at higher relative costs. Optimum is $125.000 as I said where $125.000 * 0.0002 =...

okay, 2 seconds or 5 seconds is not that difference. (I not measured it with a milisecond accuracy.) I am sure there is some additional delay frome network transfer (connecting from Europe) and the software I use. Have you tried it ever on different sub-accounts ? I trade dirrernet...

No idea how they do it exactly. I guess OandA's 'Hedging'-Algorithm/Routines are much smarter then the one of they competitors. The large customer base at Oanda gives them the opportunity to match orders from one customer to another. In this case the got the whole spread without...