IB new forex spreads

I got a huge slippage today at USD.CAD in IDEALPRO.
Sell-stop @ 1.1751... filled @ 1.1723 !

Tight spreads... right...

 

send me your user name and time of order, please. You can PM or email.

 

I just did.

 

Imho, that were news (7:00am CAD Core CPI m/m ), normal risk at forex.

 

This has nothing to do with tightness of the markets. The stop was triggered during a freefall from 1.1767 to 1.1721 resulting from economic news. The movement happened in a split second. the trigger-to-execution difference reflects the speed of the pro market.

 

Ibj,

Why don't you guys add the Ruble. Russia is one of my hot markets I can only trade through an ETF.

 

Dear IB,

when will you guys "unlock" all the USD crosses that I see in TWS but I can't trade?

USD vs. NZD, DKK, SEK, NOK?

I can select the symbols in Idealpro Forex but I can't trade them. How long will we have to wait?

 

I just read on the previous page that IB is working on adding NZD , DDK and NOK. And I just saw USD.SEK is already available!

Any estimated deadline on this addition? Are we weeks away or months? Thanks.

 

Ruble is still not a deliverable currency outside of large size transactions amongst banks. It is only available as an NDF (non-deliverable forward). Same goes for Brazil (although this is starting to change), Korea, China.

 

that is what I thought. Saxo bank is now offering it. So I was curious. I know you guys have looked at Russian Equities and was curious to your next offerings.