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You can trade currency futures thru Globex, but I have no experience of doing this. I believe JonnyT may do?
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-pub/exchange_display_web.pl?einfo=usCME2&file=GLOBEX.html
Symbols GBP and EUR for £/$ and euro/$.
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-pub/exchange_display_web.pl?einfo=usCME2&file=GLOBEX.html
Symbols GBP and EUR for £/$ and euro/$.
One Eyed Shark
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Ilia
Have traded the EUR/USD via IB, no probs, smaller spreads than fx and a decent liquid market.
Have looked at GBP but unconvinced that there was enough liquidity to provide a decent market
Have traded the EUR/USD via IB, no probs, smaller spreads than fx and a decent liquid market.
Have looked at GBP but unconvinced that there was enough liquidity to provide a decent market
GLOBEX
http://www.cme.com/get/
http://www.cme.com/get/
Thanks JT, will only trade EUR/USD, but why futures, because of the leverage?
Do use any charting package like Tradestation to give you results when to buy or sell, or some other trading system.
Does anyone use IB as a data feed for forex in Tradestation?
Do use any charting package like Tradestation to give you results when to buy or sell, or some other trading system.
Does anyone use IB as a data feed for forex in Tradestation?
Futures have a spread of 1, they do not wobble like the Forex Brokers and are thus cheaper and better to trade.
Try viewing dailyfx chart alongside the future in real time...
The dailyfx quote often moves 3 or 4 pips for a 1 pip move in the futures...
JonnyT
Try viewing dailyfx chart alongside the future in real time...
The dailyfx quote often moves 3 or 4 pips for a 1 pip move in the futures...
JonnyT
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ilia king,
I know a lot of people who use Tradestation and I dont know of any who automate their trading into IB. The only owners who may do would be owners of TS2000i, for those with TS7 then they would more than likely use Tradestation to automate their trades.
There may be someone who does but I have yet to meet them.
Paul
I know a lot of people who use Tradestation and I dont know of any who automate their trading into IB. The only owners who may do would be owners of TS2000i, for those with TS7 then they would more than likely use Tradestation to automate their trades.
There may be someone who does but I have yet to meet them.
Paul
ilia king said:
This link was originally posted by jbwone - may be useful to you
http://freeserv.dukascopy.com/exp/
rog1111
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ilia king,
I think that the problem is not that using TS2000i with IB is a bad idea but that there is no software currently available to link the two together so it is not an option.
It would require someone to wirte an application that would allow order placement via TS2000i.
JonnyT has written his own software to automatically trade FX via IB and I would guess that it would take someone of his ability to do the same with TS.
Paul
I think that the problem is not that using TS2000i with IB is a bad idea but that there is no software currently available to link the two together so it is not an option.
It would require someone to wirte an application that would allow order placement via TS2000i.
JonnyT has written his own software to automatically trade FX via IB and I would guess that it would take someone of his ability to do the same with TS.
Paul
Paul, earlier you recommended MetaServer, so I guess that that only transfers the data, however I would think that entering the orders manually through TSW instead of tradestation doing so automatically wouldn't be too hard. As for Jonny - words cant describe him
