Custom indicator for Interactive Brokers TWS

[MotiveWave]

We have a lot of users that use our software (MotiveWave) as the front end for Interactive Brokers. We also have a free Java SDK for creating your own custom indicators/strategies.

 

[SteveH]

Huh? MotiveWave sponsor hunting down 13+ month dead threads to reply to so their name starts popping up all over the place on the front pages? That's the spirit...aggressive marketing!

 

[MotiveWave]

Huh? MotiveWave sponsor hunting down 13+ month dead threads to reply to so their name starts popping up all over the place on the front pages? That's the spirit...aggressive marketing!

Not the intention to be 'popping up all over the place on the front pages'. I was searching for relevant topics for MotiveWave. I wasn't looking at dates.

 

[MoreLeverage]

No because TWS is IB's proprietary trading platform designed in-house so there is no way that they would allow anyone adding indicators to it. IB is NOT a trading software company; it's a broker that just provides trading platform to its clients.

You can certainly publish stuff to the news TWS feed (via RSS or similar), say if your API calculated indicator exceeds some threshold. If you want a chart, you might be better off drawing that yourself using the API data.