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I trade FX with Interactive Brokers every day. The liquidity on EUR/USD is around 50 Million on each side practically all the time. If you want to have instant fills at the best price available, you have to use limit orders, and you will have to use BookTrader. FXTrader is not good enough...

Which version of TWS are you using? I noticed problems with 802 but it was taken back again. 801 works fine for me. Do you run their charts? This may cause the problem. I use QuoteTracker with IB feed and no IB charts.

I do scalp with BookTrader many times every day. I have been doing it for more than a year. Some of my trades last only 2-3 seconds. It gives me lightning fast, immediate 1click execution, and no popups, ever. But I figured out how to configure it to serve my needs. And it needed some (not...

Try Oanda FXGame.

Scalp USD/JPY with IB. 0.5 pips spread almost the whole day, several millions of liquidity on both sides at the best price level virtually all the time, and if you reach a trading volume above 2 billions per month :D , the commission is only $10 per million. You can scalp the sh1t out of...

I use both IB and Oanda. For fast scalping I would recommend IB with QuoteTracker and BookTrader. If you use limit orders, you never have slippage, ever. That said Oanda is better (cheaper) if you want to trade less than 100K lots. Otherwise you can try some retail currenex brokers, but...

Yes, this mentality is the problem of the Click Kid video game generation. It is like going to hunt buffaloes without learning and practicing to shoot. It would be a waste of time, wouldn't it? One can learn it on the job.

Now I know what popup you are referring to. There is defiinitely a possibility to disable it. I had the same on BookTrader. There is a button called "close position". The default with IB is, if you manually close a trade, the STOP order stays there and can get triggered. This popup asks you...

I have been using IB's TWS BookTrader for more than a year and I love it. It has super fast 1click execution and no popups, ever. But I only use it for trading forex. I have been thinking to try it with futures, but now I am not so sure. Could someone who tried it tell me if BookTrader is...

This must be old info. I have read it on so many places on the Internet, but never encountered in live trading. I have been trading forex with IB for about a year now, and have never been charged double margin on crosses. It is 2.5% on all majors including their crosses. Only kiwi and exotics...

Brazil is aware all too well of this danger.:D

ProRealTime (java based) works flawlessly on Macs. http://www.prorealtime.com The biggest drawback is that they come with their own proprietary feed (which is good quality BTW), so it is not possible to hook it up with your broker. This is why I stopped using them, I need a software I...