IB new forex spreads

When Def gets back from vacation he will have some answers in regards to the forex programming. He was going to check with the programmers to see about the progress on this. I know they are working on it.

As far as TWS being easy to change the programming for Ideal Pro to track profits and losses etc. I don't know. But it seems that if it was so easy for them to do. It would have been done already. Everything they say they are going to do ----they seem to get it done pronto. Just my observation.
 
Gentlemen

1. For retail client exist not forex pure agent .
Conflict of interess unavoidable .
2. For retail client forex indutries offer not
comparable to level 2 /archipelago/ or Depth
of the market book with bid-ask price and
volume from each participant and possibility
order routing to selected participant.
Operator tactic as tape reading eliminated.
3. Commission fees incorporated in spread
that dissadvantaged the operator atleast
in one case from 100 /loss of concetration
through risk/reward recalculation /
Fees splitting/50% by position opening,50%
by position closing/ by zero spread generaly
not offered .
4. In future industries some of companies offer
roundturn expense lower as minimum step
4-5 $ vs 12.5$ by ES .Tactic to be present on
both sides of the book and selling on ask
buying on bid by forex not possible .
Correct ?

Author would very pleased for opinion exchange .
 
Quote from MidKnight:

While I agree it would be very very nice to have this functionality. You have absolutely no idea at all what is required to make the modification or all the ramifications they have to consider before testing and releasing any changes. How do you know how hard it is for them to code this? Do you have a copy of the TWS code? Do you know to what extent the code is coupled? The only people that can give any estimate on programming effort required is of course the TWS programmers.

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they already had the P/L shown in the accounts right? can't they just script in a seperate window/box to show that figure taken from the accounts?

but TGM is correct...if it was this easy they would probably have done it already, hehe.
 
overall IBs reporting can improve. They don't have a live transaction history on TWS, just a list of open trades, so if you have question about a trade you would need to wait unit the next statement comes out which can be 1-2 days before you know what they think you have done
 
Quote from ar_stern:

overall IBs reporting can improve. They don't have a live transaction history on TWS, just a list of open trades, so if you have question about a trade you would need to wait unit the next statement comes out which can be 1-2 days before you know what they think you have done
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?!?!:confused:!?!?

1. Executions (TWS Menu: "View"),
2. Export Today's Reports (TWS Menu: "File"),
3. Audit Trails (TWS Menu "View")
4. Execution Tab (IB Webtrader)

User Guide:
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/usersGuide.php?ib_entity=llc
 
Quote from Steve_IB:

?!?!:confused:!?!?

1. Executions (TWS Menu: "View"),
2. Export Today's Reports (TWS Menu: "File"),
3. Audit Trails (TWS Menu "View")
4. Execution Tab (IB Webtrader)

User Guide:
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/usersGuide.php?ib_entity=llc
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I think what he might talking about is the ability to track individual trades. For instance, if I buy 50k of Eur/Usd and then the next day buy 25k Eur/Usd. It would be nice to track the profits and losses and exposure of Each of these transactions. Like Oanda and everybody does (all other brokers treat them like individual futures trades---Oanda has about the easiest to track). Steve, this is your only weakness. I have to track mine elsewhere. I know you guys are working on this. Any idea when the solution will be out?? It would be great to look at individual forex trades under my portfolio window. Sorry Steve traders nowadays are lazy. :)
 
Quote from TGM:

I think what he might talking about is the ability to track individual trades. For instance, if I buy 50k of Eur/Usd and then the next day buy 25k Eur/Usd. It would be nice to track the profits and losses and exposure of Each of these transactions. Like Oanda and everybody does (all other brokers treat them like individual futures trades---Oanda has about the easiest to track). Steve, this is your only weakness. I have to track mine elsewhere. I know you guys are working on this. Any idea when the solution will be out?? It would be great to look at individual forex trades under my portfolio window. Sorry Steve traders nowadays are lazy. :)
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Funny...is it really that hard to program an additional column that shows the result of initial value +- current value for each trade??
 
Quote from Steve_IB:

?!?!:confused:!?!?

1. Executions (TWS Menu: "View"),
2. Export Today's Reports (TWS Menu: "File"),
3. Audit Trails (TWS Menu "View")
4. Execution Tab (IB Webtrader)

User Guide:
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/usersGuide.php?ib_entity=llc
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Actually, I was talking about complete transaction log with time-stamp, so if some positions show up in your account when you were not connected, and you have no idea where they came from there will be references
 
Quote from ar_stern:

Actually, I was talking about complete transaction log with time-stamp, so if some positions show up in your account when you were not connected, and you have no idea where they came from there will be references
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1, 2 should give you execution times
3 should give you everything - time sent, received, executed etc
 
Quote from Steve_IB:

1, 2 should give you execution times
3 should give you everything - time sent, received, executed etc
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Steve,

One early morning when attempting to figure out my trades and positions I noticed that at about midnight the previous day's executions drop off - I had to "export previous day's reports" to see what had happened as the nightly report wasn't created yet on the website, and the cutoff on the nightly report seems to be about 5:00 PM Eastern time anyway (EUR/USD IdealPro and EUR futures), so I couldn't see the 6PM-midnight trades in the nightly report until the next day's report anyway. It would be good to have the trades stay around a bit longer in the execution log, or be able to have more than 1 day's worth of trades in the executions log.

The problem was compounded because it was a trade on IdealPro where the # of units my trade entry software had recorded, did not match up with the # of units in the account window. And because position information is not listed for forex I had a hard time figuring out which entry had actually gotten filled (my actual price basis) and which entry had not been filled.
 
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