It's only appropriate for fully automated trading where your system can keep immediate track of whether the limit order at the exit was filled.
I think I came up with a solution: Trade every trade with a limit order. If it doesn’t get filled, put a stop loss at the entrance price as a...
I just started trading ZN today (Ten Year Note). I have been a currency trader for years. The technique is scalping and moderately high...
FOREX just got going.
Message from IB: "IDEAL and IDEALPRO are currently unavailable for trading." At least they know about it.
The worst part is if you go to IB's website, and click System Status, it ALWAYS says "no problems reported at this time." Yeah, right.
I am not getting any FOREX data. They should have been open more than 20 minutes ago.
For background, I'm coming from the world of Forex, and my experience has consistently been I get filled with little or no slippage. Frequently,...
I plan to start trading crude oil futures, but my technique is fairly high frequency (about a trade every 2 minutes). Is it a given I will always...
Yes, that appears to be the issue for me, too. Overall I really like IB, but they can be annoyingly opaque at times. Why not just say, "You need...
I called Interactive Brokers, and the customer service rep said they just received the bulletin this morning and they knew nothing (!!!), and he...
I'm not sure I can trade FOREX with them any longer: LEVERAGED FOREX TRANSACTIONS As a result of new NFA regulations, spot forex...
Normally, my system disconnects at 12:15 a.m. and reconnects at 12:30 a.m., under program control. Last night, the TWS went out just after...
In this type of business there cannot be 100% up time, but in one week you have used up the amount of downtime I would expect in a full year. You...
My FOREX positions barely budged, thankfully. Like someone else said, very glad it wasn't a bit earlier in the morning.
Am I the only one connected again? Been back about 2 minutes now
IT'S BACK!!!
What irritates me BEYOND BELIEF is that there is NO UPDATE at IB's website. Why I have to turn to EliteTrader to find out what's up with my...
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