I have bbTWS on my BlackBerry. The charts are "line" type only, no candlesticks. Futures and stock charts only show daily session, forex charts...
For anyone who doesn't want to trade futures, opening an account outside the US and growing it to 25k seems to be logical alternative for now....
As far as I remember, if you login to the Gateway instead of TWS, there is no logoff timer. The gateway is leaner than TWS and has lower memory...
Check Virtual Brokers. They have lower account minimum to get flat rate right away (it's 50k with both Scotia iTrade and TD Waterhouse). There is...
Those, especially Blomberg, are for institutional traders and might cost $1000+ per month. For starter, IB feed is sufficient, plus SierraChart or...
About $600 will do to get the data, and you will need to top it up from time to time: http://ibkb.interactivebrokers.com/node/314 Remember...
You need to be creative answering all those questions about "trading experience", your "liquid assets excluding home equity", etc. Brokers (at...
In the latest versions of TWS there is a new setting in BookTrader called "Apply offset to parent trade price":...
Well, if you really take the data under the microscope, you can find some inaccuracies in one minute data, especially in very fast markets. With...
I have never used Ninja, I don't know how it handles the data. I use SierraChart, it stores all the data on the hard drive. Once the data is on...
I have mentioned eSignal because it's popular and widely advertised. Personally, I haven't used it for a long time. I actually use IB data but...
IB feed is ok only if you trade the same symbols all the time, like when you trade futures. If you trade stocks and need to load lots of different...
Forget about charts, Risk Navigator, and other fancy staff and just use TWS as a trading platform. Remember that it's Java based and Java is a...
You were just lucky at the time of purchase that your order went through. Usually when the account drops even 1 cent below 2k all orders are...
Same here. Can you provide the link with exact hours. And keep in mind that neither Hong Kong nor Japan have DST, so the reset would start at 6:30...
Ninja: yes. IB and others: in the courts or on TT's "to-do" list. Front end providers from outside US: no (TT lawyers apparently can't figure out...
What IB calls BookTrader is commonly called by others as DOM (Depth Of Market) order entry. From what I understand, TT actually holds the patent...
It's all explained on the first several pages of this thread. Some companies actually pay them royalties, Ninja Trader is an example.
The only advantage of having the thread so messed up is that the lawyers from TT won't figure out which pop-up killer is where and how they work....
IB Controller is completely different. It controls TWS, including logon. You can find more info in post from p.31, dated 11-16-10 at 12:32 PM, and...
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