Interactive Brokers Charting Poll

Discussion in 'Retail Brokers' started by ibx, Aug 3, 2012.

IB Clients: What charting package do you use?

Poll closed Aug 10, 2012.

  1. Trader Workstation Charting

    9 vote(s)
    12.2%

  2. SierraChart

    8 vote(s)
    10.8%

  3. NinjaTrader

    6 vote(s)
    8.1%

  4. MultiCharts

    28 vote(s)
    37.8%

  5. E-Signal

    7 vote(s)
    9.5%

  6. TradeStation

    2 vote(s)
    2.7%

  7. Bloomberg

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  8. Reuters

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  9. Don't use charts

    1 vote(s)
    1.4%

  10. Other chart package (please specify)

    13 vote(s)
    17.6%
  1. colonial dr

    colonial dr

    IB clients are too poor to afford anything from Dow Jones, Bloomberg, or Standard And Poors. :D
     
    #51     Oct 12, 2012
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  2. shopster

    shopster


    retarded comment.
     
    #52     Oct 12, 2012
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  3. smile

    smile

    Interactive Brokers please consider buying Quotetracker from TDameritrade.

    They don't want it and many of your customers have used it with much success for years.

    It is wonderful software and would be a terrific addition to IB charting capabilities.
     
    #53     Oct 16, 2012
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  4. timtrader

    timtrader


    Correct, TD Ameritrade doesn't want it. Here is a portion of the text from an email they sent to their customers on 8/3/2012...they're only pushing their Thinkorswim product:

    We want to assure you that as a valued TD Ameritrade client, you will continue to have access to QuoteTracker and to all of its functionality: streaming real-time quotes, live real-time intraday charts, dynamic historical charts, more than 120 technical indicators, and more.

    However, we will not be making any new enhancements to the platform in the future.

    thinkorswim®: A powerful trading experience
    To complement QuoteTracker, or as an alternative, we encourage you to explore thinkorswim®, our most advanced trading platform. Free* to all TD Ameritrade clients, thinkorswim provides sophisticated trading tools, streaming real-time data, one-click trading, and advanced analytics, including charts with hundreds of customizable technical studies.
     
    #54     Oct 21, 2012
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  5. oldtime

    oldtime

    how difficult would it be to add Renko charts? I've never used them, but they look interesting.

    I see sierra offers them
     
    #55     Oct 22, 2012
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  6. osho67

    osho67

    What about Point and Figure. I like those charts and QT offers at the moment.
     
    #56     Oct 22, 2012
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  7. oldtime

    oldtime

    a lot of posters seem to like QT, have no experience with them
    what is the subscription rate?
     
    #57     Oct 22, 2012
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  8. oldtime

    oldtime

    the reason I ask is because, historically, ib has always had very bad charts, and it would seem a simple discount on QT or Sierra who specialize in charts would be a way to go
     
    #58     Oct 22, 2012
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  9. just21

    just21

    IB should make their backfill faster and reconsider the throttling instead of looking at the charts. I switched to esignal as it was taking too long to fill the charts in multicharts and there were issues with daily chart start times.
     
    #59     Oct 22, 2012
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  10. oldtime

    oldtime

    and while we are on the subject, another astute poster just turned me on to Armens Trade Log, which since we are quickly entering tax season, will take all your ib trades and sort them out for the IRS, or Taxact tax software.

    I don't expect to get it all for free

    but an ib discount (trade log is about $300/yr) would be a nice plus

    I don't think most of us have any faith ib will come up with good charts that can beat QT or Sierra

    but they could work out a discount deal for us

    and like I said, I would also like to see that extended to tax software
     
    #60     Oct 22, 2012
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