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. Spend the money on:

    Latency

    Stability

    Better data - real-time and historical.

    Don't spend the money on silly TA charting features for low value accounts.
     
    #61     Oct 22, 2012
  2. if it wasn't for my piddly ass small "low value account" and a lot of others like me, you'd be bitching about your commissions instead of your charts
     
    #62     Oct 22, 2012
  3. Maybe, but I wouldn't be paying for a help desk then. :p
     
    #63     Oct 22, 2012
  4. no, I'd be paying for them to be standing by waiting to answer the phone to make sure you are still happy
     
    #64     Oct 22, 2012
  5. Done :)
     
    #65     Oct 22, 2012
  6. QuoteTracker is free. It is available from the site below:
    http://www.quotetracker.com/download.asp

    Click the SITE1, SITE2, or SITE3 buttons, not the blue download button.

    TD Ameritrade has just sat on it and isn't making further updates to it. I guess it will last until its so out of date that nothing works any longer. Nevertheless, its the best "integrated" trading platform I've ever used....clearly designed by a "trader", not just a group of programmers who don't really use it.
     
    #66     Oct 23, 2012
  7. Please advise Status / Update on IB Charting improvements, or has this project been dismissed? Been 4-months and no follow up on your part.

    Thank you
     
    #67     Dec 10, 2012
  8. I don't know, but I finally figured out how to set up overlay charts on my forex pairs which is helpful to me.

    I hope they don't come up with something that is too complicated for me.

    I don't really need the charts, but they make it easy to follow if I don't want to eat on my computer, and set my laptop up a few feet away, or at night when I am sleeping, I can set them up next to the alarm clock.
     
    #68     Dec 10, 2012
  9. ktm

    ktm

    I certainly don't use IB charts. I was thinking maybe there was some great piece of the setup that I'm missing. I would try to get a chart of a certain index or underlying and just do something simple...like a month or something...I couldn't do it. I've never had another issue with any other charting package, but I thought maybe it was just me. Maybe not.
     
    #69     Dec 10, 2012