IB - adding XAU, XAG and other spot metals

Hi Guys,

When is IB going to add the following to their platform?

- Spot Gold XAU
- Spot Silver XAG
- Spot Platinum XPT
- Spot Palladium XPF

If they did, they would rule the world!

Regards
Wobble

 

Where is XAU traded?


Will you be trading options?

 

You can trade the gold and silver etf's already with ib.

 

But EFTs only trade during NY market hours and have a lot of gaps.

 

So, where are you going to trade the XAU?

You mean, it has no gaps?

 

Just like spot forex offered on IB IDEALPRO.

 

wobble, you are aware it's not possible to trade cash indexes like $XAU, $SML, $SPX, right?

They don't have gaps...they're not tradable. It's how they're computed that makes 'em that way but again where are you going to trade them?

How can IB offer something that can't be traded?

 

Other brokers offer them.

- http://fxtrade.oanda.com/spreads/recent_spreads.shtml
- http://www.barx.com/commodities/preciousmetals/index.html
.. and some others


I would like IB to offer them too.

 

he means the cash/spot market for the metals; not the XAU index.

as he already said, the cash metals are traded like the cash currencies but IB doesnt offer them currently

 

forex.ch realtimeforex.ch offered trading with XAU

as with forex with margin .You can test demo by forex.ch

Attention ! .For information only . Forex market in Swiss is no regulated .