IB requires $10K to open, not to maintain. So next month pull out half of it. I think their minimum is $2K for futures contracts, good luck finding margin at that. But less for options and probably fx.

IB interactivebrokers.com - how is your experience?

Vlad: Look into Grain (Agriculture) ETFs. On the contracts, watch out for limit moves!

Corn futures

"Brokers" - What Brokers? — These folks you call "brokers" are really Dealers. Just like at the casino. Real brokers pass thru orders to be offset on a real exchange like CME or NYMEX and make their money from commissions. Plus it is ...

Why would a broker want to go against your trades?

Given what parameters? Minimum margin to open account? Day trade margin? Order entry platform? Charting platform? API available? Free data feed? Specializing in Ags, Indexes, Options, etc?

Futures Trading Broker

Ron, That's a good start, but there can be errors not related to this, so you need to check for specific stop/limit size errors.

Autodetect ECN Broker

I keep all my data in Ninja Trader ver 6 database, which is MS Access. (Ver 7 has been upgraded to SQL). It's not a huge amount. NT has a good built-in Strategy Tester.

best SQL schema for tick data

Stop recomputing the world each tick and compute the last bar on bar close.

custom indicators cause performance degradation in MT

Justin, I'm not Crassius, but I have a vote: History: Just like rate Gain: A file for each week, zipped and available on your server, keep it for 10 years. Current: I'm interested in Ninja Trader (prefer ver 6.5, but will move to 7 if necessary). ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

See Renko, and Range bars.

Strategy / Indicator for very short TF - less than 1min?

I would say yes, but some brokers remove old history after a while.

Couple of questions about MT4 and MQL

Multicharts question? — First of all, can Multicharts write to a text file? Most good charting platforms can, if they allow you to build your own indicators. See if you can find an example in your help or supplied indicators. Or ask their ...

Alarm if connection lost: How to set?

1) If you have a compiler or later version of Excel that has a timer function, you can call the IB API and do it. -or- 2) Can Multicharts write to a text file? If so, you can write a timestamp every time you get a tick or end of 1-minute bar etc, ...

Alarm if connection lost: How to set?

does gravity work? — Does gravity work? I don't know. I don't care, as long as I don't fall off the earth. Any Einsteins in the area? Or was it Newton?

Trend Lines Don't Work

"Quick question: Is the tradecontext busy while the system is waiting for a dud trade attempt to timeout?" I don't know what a "dud trade" is. Context is busy when your process can not get a thread to the order server - it could be any number of ...

Err_trade_timeout (error 128) is trade context busy?

just sleep it off — for loop = 1 to 10 more or less if(TradeContextbusy()) Sleep(500) else break //

Err_trade_timeout (error 128) is trade context busy?

What you have should work. The symbols must all be in the Market Watch window. Make sure you can open a chart for each one and that there is data. What broker is this? And what is #C? ps: Unless... the compiler does something funky with # as it does ...

using marketinfo to get symbol prices

1) A quick and dirty way is to place lots of "slash n"s ahead of the text, 2) Better way is to use ObjectCreate Here is part of the code: ObjectCreate(myObject, OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0); ObjectSet(myObject, OBJPROP_CORNER, 3); // Upper Left=0; Upper ...

how to change lines in "Comment()"

newline — insert a slash n x + "backslash n" + y etc the real backslash editor takes it out of here

how to change lines in "Comment()"

ask hayseed — url

How to use .ex4 indicator for EA

You have every function in the Windows API.

can an indicator execute an external program?