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there is no usa selection in dropdown. can anyone shsare what forex broker to use as usa resident?

thanks everyone, so Drakhades, could you tell me what language you choose to use to write your own program, is it C# or Java? do you use any opensource framework to help you get started? thanks again.

I have two indicator-based system to trade against 100-200 stocks, based on intraday signal from indicator, it can enter order to open positions and exit on intraday signal from indicators. I need specify how much money to be allocated to each strategy and what max number of open positions per...

don't know exactly how long before web trader session timeout, but I think it's between 10min to 30min. after timeout, you have to reenter username/passoword/passcode, the first time you try will give you a message saying you already have a session open, you have two choice , either disconnect...

we really need IB user union

down here too in MO

booktrader won't work for me after upgrading this morning to 882.1,it won't send out bracket order, when I click on booktrader bidsize, it used to send out limit order with two bracket order, and now, nothing show up in booktrader, in TWS, it show one limit order only without transmitting,

I trade US market mainly and occasionly trade HK or SGX future in one account, stop order was not working on Thursday's night, I see price passed stop price but didn't trigger stop. through web chat(no one answer the phone), they said that is becasue server reset. how long will reset last...

or it's gone which contribute this kind of slide.

I recently use IB datafeed for 1 minute and 5 minute charting, from time to time, I noticed big price spike which may trigger auto stop or stop buy or stop sell. is that real price spike or fake? how you guys deal with such event? I'm not talking that bid/ask invert which totally screw any...

Gt, I think you can put hard stop "x"ticks away for contractor. I trade manually, I use bracket order extensively. 1. first go to global setting--> order default--> FUT, right click--> add ticker symbol(i.e, YM). 2. click YM, change default setting for YM, change stop and trail as you...

GT, do you know where to start coding dll for QT, any manual or sample code to get started? thx

nice way to scalp, GT, in this fast change market, I guess this is only way to make money by scalping a few ticks. but hardly do it manually. I have tried some short-term momentum indicator to scalp YM manually, doing ok, but can't click mouse quickly enough. thanks for sharing your method...

Just let you guys know how I solved this problem, I uninstalled both java and TWS, delete the whole c:\jts\ directory, then reinstalled it, it's fine now. hope this is helpful jet

hi,DAV, there is one feature we daytrader really need is to one click mouse to send an bracket order which has different stop and target on booktrade, for example, YM, one click to buy with -10 to be stop and +20 to be target. the way booktrade works now is awkward for us: 1. I know we can...

hi, Ursa, TWS is 873.3, java is 1.6.0_01 on windows XP sp2. problem is still there for me, wondering if java version is not right, could you let know what version of TWS and java you use? thanks a lot jet

every time when I placed an order on IB's paper trading through market data line, booktrade or third party software, paper trading TWS takes forever to process order, user interface is extremely sluggish, actually I can never see order clearly showed up, the page with order in and pending page...

thanks bren, it works now, thanks a lot

I have followed instruction to register in esignal, download data manager, install it, verified username and password, download quotetrader, install it, launch it, there is a message windows saying" username or password is wrong", verified from confirmation email and retype it, still not...

it's saying it has chart and DOM, support one click trading through DOM with stop or bracket order, does anyone have real time experience with it?