I've needed CS with IB on 2 occassions and I received a response within 12 hours each time... Nothing major going on here. Unlike a lot of whiners, they never bothered to read ALL the rules/paperwork. Doing so saves you time and mental anguish. When the rare MAJOR issue arises that has them violating their own rules, I can see complaints.. But most complaints are from those who don't get it....
I have been wanting to move my forex trading to IB for some time now so everything will be concise, I chart using esignal, can I pull up price charts on eSignal using IB pip spreads. Thank you
For data I use a 3rd party, IQ Feed. While they are a retail level data provider, I find them to be pretty solid about 99-97% of the time, and they have a number of customized levels of data feed to fullfill the needs of most any retail trader. The provide their services a la carte, so you only pay for what you need. I mainly focus on the e-mini indice (in which you most definitely can make $100 per day, everyday ... if you know how), I also have the e-mini oil, ags (corn), eruo and 10 year notes on delayed feed for testing out some longer-term position trading strategies. But that is time consuming and will require quite a bit of automation (which I'm looking into smartquant for), so we're talking a couple of years out to make that happen. Hope that helps, I
Some really useful insights in this thread esp. from cabletrader and Lon Eagle. I've just started trading Fx and realize there is so much more to learn. I was never aware of the 'bucketshop' nature of the Fx brokers. Is IB doing something similar to this?