I am looking into that tomorrow to see how that works maybe just for using their charting but still manually handling my long-term swing trades is tedious and looking to automate. Thanks.
I am actually using a very good auto trading bot for Forex. Used a lot of terrible ones in the past, but this seems very good.
My understanding is that Quantopian also uses a simple programming language. And can use IB as broker for your trades. However, I'm not sure whether they cover the instruments you want to trade. I have no experience myself in using Quantopian. Alternatively you would have to take the plunge and teach yourself how to code Python (or Java) so that you can code your strategy directly with IB's API.
Definitely worth the full 9 minutes... http://www.multicharts.com/downloads/tutorials/ib_datafeed_broker.mp4