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When I called it said "to have $30 automatically charged to your account press X" or "hold for next operator" First I did the second option but after about 5mins on hold I gave up and did the $30 option and got right through.

To be honest, today IB really ticked me off big time. I was stuck in a position in NQ and could not exit. I was charged $30 to exit the trade over the phone. I was short so I probably made more than I would have, because I'm sure I would have exited sooner but thats not the point. The point...

Bigapple, I don't no what that error means. I use Win2000 and don't have this problem. Good luck.

when you run the program try replacing GLOBEX with DTB and replacing ES with DAX and put in your expriation date. I believe this should work. If not tell me what the problem is.

Thanks Allan. As you can see I decided to scrap the VBA excel coding and I figured the activeX would be better.

I don't know anything about DAX tell me the following: symbol exchange currency(ie: EUR) how many decimals places on the quotes. tick increments Then send me your email address and I'll see if I can send it to you.

It is VB and anyone is free to make their own program if they want. If you have specific questions during the process of creating your own app then I'll be happy to answer if I can. To get started check out the examples in the Yahoo TWS API group. The P/L is just the difference between your...

Please no software vendors on my thread. Here we don't charge fees to our fellow traders. You give and you recieve more in the long run.

I've fixed a bug so please anyone who previously downloaded my program, do so again. http://www.pricepatterns.com/ib/ BUG was: If you logged on with ES and you made a trade for NQ in TWS, my program would count this as a position for ES. This has been fixed and now you may trade any other...

I added an Open P/L box so you can easily see if you are up or down in the trade. You need to redownload the ZIP file. I may or may not make available a better version that has what you just asked for. I just don't know at the moment if I'm going to put a lot more effort in this project...

Of course it can be done, but I'm a trader not a full time programmer.

Done. Just redownload the .Zip file. Remember I only made this for ES and NQ on Globex. So some displays may not be correct for other contracts on other exchanges. Test on the demo.

Ok fellow traders, I'm making available a scaled down version of my trailing stop trading interface for Interactive Brokers. It only supports ES and NQ futures contracts. Feel free to download it if you think it may help you in your trading. its in a .zip file and contains instructions...

You should look into IB's API. I learned Visual Basic just for the purpose of automating my stop logic with my own program. I don't use TWS anymore. So basically my Tradestation strategy gives me my entry buy/sell stop, I enter the trade using the program I created and it automatically manages...

yes you will easily get filled instantly at the bid for sell under most normal conditions. I don't mean to pry, but I hope you realize what you are getting yourself into here. If you are going to discretionarily daytrade ES, only the strong survive in this particular market. I wish you...

More like 4 trades per half second! --- The IB demo quotes are in no way similar to the actual trading quotes during the day.

try something called tradelabstrategies.com , I think that is the link. There is a free program there, I believe.

also there Globex quotes are .7 of a second snapshots which could affect stop market order triggers and efficiency.

Huios, From my current experience it is very hard to be purely discretionary when trading ES or NQ, unless you are just scalping for very quick in and out trades. But for daytrades(or multiday) trades that last longer than 5minutes, the only success I have is when using a semi-systematic...

NQ will usually over/under react a little bit to market moves. But direction wise, ES and NQ are similar because they incorporate similar stocks in their indexes. So, either one you should get similar results because they are highly correlated throughout the day. Keep in mind to watch spx...