interactive brokers

I hope I'm not breaking any forum-rules by creating this thread but it looks like Interactive Brokers has finally decided to go toe-to-toe with Indian discount-brokers & have capped their brokerage at the standard Rs.20/- max. Can anyone, who is already trading with them, confirm this? If so...

For the past month or so, Interactive broker has arbitrarily raised initial margin requirements on most pharma stocks. Consider the following examples: Symbol----------------Initial margin Requirment AJANTPHARM-------------887684 KSCL----------------------869257.5...

I want to know if someone here can somehow make a custom stock scanner that will work with Interactive Brokers' TWS to scan for stocks that meet the set technical criteria. Of course, I'm willing to pay for it if I get what I need. The scanning criteria isn't very complicated given that I've...

Hello , Would like to have suggestions , how to best execute my strategy for scalping one point out of Nifty ITM options. Will be placing bracket orders on Interactive Brokers. Want to do this once a day. 1.What would be the perfect instrument (strike price / month) for max leverage and...

Hello guys.. Is there any way to trade in US markets ( derivatives ) being an citizen.. I heard somewhere that interactive brokers do provide access to US markets but one can only trade in cash segment and not in derivatives. Any input welcome.

Hi All, Has any one experienced Interactive Brokers, their trading platform seems good also their API's are powerful for integrating with s/w like Amibroker, the only thing is as per amibroker the datafeed provided by IB is slow i.e. not tick by tick and they suggest to keep the time as 1sec...

Hello! I am considering using Amibroker with InteractiveBrokers for program trading. I understand that there are a few users here who have used the Amibroker / IB combo in paper trading mode. - Are there any users who have used it in Live mode? - If so, how was the experience? (Any...

Hello people, I have been toying with IB's trade workstation for a while. I find it quite impressive, esp. their programming APIs and ability to do algo trading. But their brokerage seems to be quite high. I think its nearly impossible to do day trade becoz of their high brokerage...

Hi All I've been trying to open an account with Interactive Brokers for the past 3-4 months and they always keep asking me to refill the forms. There is always something missing since every time i send them the forms by post they have a new requirement. Is anyone else facing similar...

I am interested to know if anyone has experience of using IB TWS API with an Automated Trading capable software on an Indian Exchange. I tried NinjaTrader but it simply does not get feed from IB. Am checking out Amibroker now. Anyone know of any other software that can do this for Indian...