IB Suggestions & Improvements

Quote from joesan:

Is it possible for IB to introduce a certain type of script language, such as easylanguage of tradestation. This can allow traders to make custom indicators in charts, and make much more complicated conditonal orders/bracket orders/trailing stop orders and even automate them.

I understand TWS API provide a solution for automated trading, but it requires much knowledge in programming. If IB can introduce a integrated script language, much more clients will be able to use it, and this will make IB a truely allmighty powerful trading platform.
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Look at Multicharts from www.tssupport.com it is a tradestation and easylanguage clone with support for IB datafeed and backfill. Also www.tradesignal.com is another clone that is considering an IB version.
 
Quote from just21:

Look at Multicharts from www.tssupport.com it is a tradestation and easylanguage clone with support for IB datafeed and backfill. Also www.tradesignal.com is another clone that is considering an IB version.
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Multicharts seems to be a charting software, understanding one will be able to trade from it soon, but can it do automated trading ?


tradesignal, the question is the same, can it do automated trading through IB ?
 
It would be nice if Peterffy or IB staff wrote a monthly newsletter or commentary on the evolution of electronic markets, fees, IB offerings & changes. I think a lot of traders look to IB as a traders' advocate for electronic markets - the rag could take on an advocacy-type tone.
 
Quote from IBsoft:

perhaps if you tell us what PREM is ...
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It's a real-time Ticker of the Arbitrage-Window values....You already have it in TWS but your clients want it in an Index-Ticker-format.
 
PREM: "It's a real-time Ticker of the Arbitrage-Window values....You already have it in TWS but your clients want it in an Index-Ticker-format"

Correct. I use IB, but I do all my charting through Medved Quotetracker using the IB datafeed. Since I trade mostly YM, I use TICK, TRIN, Time/Sales and Pit noise (I have a subscription to this) almost exclusively. Pure price action. I can chart TICK, TRIN and have time/sales prints through my IB datafeed. But not having a PREM symbol to chart means I miss out on the key timing for when a program buy/sell kicks in.

This, imo, is a very critical datapoint to chart, and one that IB is sorely lacking. Other than that, IB has all the functionality I need to provide the data to QT that I use to trade indexes.
 
Quote from steven21:

Dear IB,

Can you also provide the NYSE advance minus decline volume, if possible?

Thanks.
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yes would like this as well including Premium.

also backfill on trin and tick for both nas and nyse for QT

thanks
 
Quote from Moreagr:

yes would like this as well including Premium.

Also backfill on TRIN and TICK for both NASD and NYSE for QT

thanks
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Concur as to backfill. Even just a single day's backfill (previous 24 hours) would be good as a link loss\interruption during the day or equipment failure causes my trading to stop until I have accumulated sufficient data to give me confidence in them again.

Jack
 
Quote from BlueHorseshoe:

It would be nice if Peterffy or IB staff wrote a monthly newsletter or commentary on the evolution of electronic markets, fees, IB offerings & changes. I think a lot of traders look to IB as a traders' advocate for electronic markets - the rag could take on an advocacy-type tone.
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http://ibmarkets.com/main.php
 
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