Recent content by clemstar

Hi Deniel You can indeed create custom indicators in TWS charts. See the attached file copied from TWS Help. As it's something so simple I'm after, I don't really want another product on top of TWS. Are you able to help? Clemstar

I'm looking for someone who can create me a very simple Moving Average based custom indicator for use with IBs Trader Workstation charts. I can define exactly what I need, but unfortunately don't have the Java skills to program it. I'm happy to pay for your time if you're able to help me out...

I'm thinking of signing up with MB Trading to trade futures. They seem low-cost and yet with plenty of features, including eSignal free??? Anyone had any experience with them, good or bad, and care to share?

Hi I understand I can use TWS, but what I also want to do is to extract the IB Market Data and use my own charting package to chart it. Can I download the IB Market Data and use it with my own charting package?

Using IB Data with 3rd party charting package Hi I have recently opened an account with IB and would like to use the market data in my own charting package - namely Updata TA. What is the process of getting a feed to my own PC in a format (eg Metastock) that can be read by Updata? Thanks

Does anyone know where I can get a listing of the FTSE350 constituents by ticker. The FTSE website lists the constituents only by long name. And also, is there anywhere that has historic listings of the index constituents? I'm trying to eliminate survivorship bias in backtesting. Cheers

Hi I am just beginning this journey and have not actually started trading yet. But while I am getting to grips with TA and money management etc, the question that is vexing me at the moment is what instruments to trade and what method to trade them. There are clearly many instruments to...