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A newbie... I read an advisor service and they posted there results. In a month based on one contract per currency there returns were GBP/USD 272 pips USD/CHF 206 pips Ok fine, so what this in MONEY terms, whats is it GBP for GBP/USD and USD for USD/CHF, is it 10 per pip of...

Concerning the EURUSD... 1 Contract/lot = $100,000 of BASE ie EURUSD 1 lot is $100,000 euros, or @1.3225 rate $75614 USD The BASE is the FIRST PART OF PAIR, thats EUR of EURUSD A pip/point is worth 0.0001 of $100,000 euros or $10 euros. Concerning the USDJPY 1 Contract/lot =...

TWS used to have a pop a box confirming that you wish to transmit a order. It was a controlled in the settings area.. Does this still exist, if so how do you turn it back on. Please advise

What about the Debt interest portion of trade, how do you handle that ? Entering order via the TWS > View > Account screen, I assume included the debt interest part of the trade. The Trade example at IB web site says nothing about this trick !

Futher to my education on this thread.. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64007&perpage=6&highlight=digs&pagenumber=3 I recently did this trade in IDEAL PRO with margin of 50:1 SHORT GBPUSD @ 1.7710 TWS => SELL Underlying 262000 GBP To exited the position I...

Finally IB Chat was useful.. When you select a cross rate in TWS IDEAL PRO Cross rate UnderLying GBPUSD GBP JPYUSD USD The QTY you load into the TWS to trade in the BID/ASK area is the Underlying value...no matter what you see in the QTYs in the Bid and ask...

Assume IB account is in base USD When you load into TWS, If you trade GBP, you are loading the GBP amount, when you trade JPY you load the JPY amount ( hence you are not loading the USA amount ) Correct ?

Into TWS I load YEN, so I load 58M yen

Ok I am stuck SAY I BUY USDJPY at 117.75 And my max loss of USD dollars is to be only $10,000 usd to my account And my stop loss was to be placed at 117.00 Question : How much YEN can I buy ? Or what the f**k do I load into TWS in the QTY screen....

Thats margin in YEN , not margin in USD is it not,,, SO the QTY you load into TWS is always USD...

So hows the margin calculated... when its 30:1 how much do I need in my account to buy $471k

I tried to trade USDJPY today First trade via IDEAL PRP for this cross rate 117.75 I wanted to buy 4000 QTY via TWS it said may trade was under $25000 mimimum order... How 25000/117.75 = 212 minimum order, I thought 4000 USDJY margin is 30:1 so needs $16k in my account.. What...

Can some one send me CSV DAILY data OHLC for DX US Dollar INdex from NYBOT. Post it here will be fine, thanks in advance,

Its all fixed, my error IB said.... Please login to your account management menu go to trading access / market data subscription. There you probably will see that Ideal Pro is already ticked. You now just need to update the system. You can do this by clicking on Continue on the bottom on...

Time New York : Tuesday, 24 January 2006 02:33: Still no Quotes... I thought I could trade forex via IB IDEAL PRO at least 23.5 hours a day... What am I missing ?

Time New York : Monday, 23 January 2006 22:19:00 I went to my web trader , I have permission for market data. NO QUOTES, any one else.. is this normal ?? GBPUSD CADUSD AUDUSD EURUSD

Ok I think I finally understand IB IDEAL PRO Forex service. I want to make sure I trade the correct DOLLAR amounts value of the forex GBPUSD ( price 1.7683) with margin at 50:1. So if I wanted to trade a total value of GBPUSD with margin $300,000 every time. GBPUSD Value : $300,000...

Late Apex thanks for you help...

Papar trade where, how, show me !!

Thanks I will trade the demo.