MurthySuresh, thanks so much for your reply. I am glad to see your comments. I looked at the IB Controller and was very excited to use for AT, then called interactive brokers and the rep on the phone basically told me, the platform is not the same as typical retail platform and they don't understand the concept of lots etc..
With that disappointment, I gave up and started messing around Ninjatrader COM and Mbtrading COM etc hoping to get something going for Forex. After seeing your email, I called IB and asked for a Forex Specialist and a gentleman by the name of Gerald explained in such detail and it does like look like I can trade Forex through them. The rep I talked to few weeks ago was misleading. So I am waiting to get my paper account to test IBC. I wish I had known this earlier, I wasted several months trying to work out alternatives etc. Do you currently trade Forex through IB?. If anyone on here is trading Forex live or demo via AB using IBC , pls let me know. I am specifically interested in knowing the symbol mapping and bracket orders for Forex. Marcin has helped with translate most of the esignal symbols to broker platform. However there are few that don't fall into that conversion. I am working around that now. Thanks. Cheers,Padhu ----- Original Message ----- From: murthysuresh To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:47 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Creating a datafeed and Autotrading plugin for MBTrading forex Padhu Except for the real tick point click interface, i dont see MB trading any superior to IB. Since Ami already does AT with IB, you may want to rethink the whole thing. IB is a forex ECN and thier commissions are very competitive with MB and there are zillions of folks who use the current Automated trading wtih IB. seede --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Padhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Franz, > > Greetings. > > MBTrading's sdk is at http://sdk.mbtrading.com/v.htm. > > Here is my thought process: > 1. MB Trading provides a COM interface that can be access via instantiating the following COM objects. > (Thanks to Tomasz for the confirmatyoon) > moComMgr = CreateStaticObject("MbtComMgr"); > > Access rest as members: > -------------------------------- > moQuotes = moComMgr.Quotes; > moOrders = moComMgr.OrderClient > > 2. The above will get us to create a template code for autotrading interface just like IB. > > 3. We certainly would need a realtime quote plugin. The question is if needs extensive coding > or just can be derived from the COM methods moComMgr.Quotes; ( Tomasz, Pls feel free to comment whenever you have some time to spare). > > I am not a programmer but I am married to one. So I can get help for this. Pls let me know how you would like to proceed and if there are other > members here who are interested in contributing to this project. The real nice thing I liked about MB is the fact they are dierct access/ECN type. > One couldn't ask for better spreads on Forex than interbank quotes. btw, they also do stocks,options and futures. So If there are users who don't use > IB for some reason, this may be a better alternative if all goes well. > > I am willing to do whatever it takes to get this Auto trading interface done. All I need is some process, so that we know who does what. Once ready we can get Amibroker user commuinity to test it as well. > > Thanks. > > Cheers,Padhu > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: firefly6666 > To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 3:40 PM > Subject: [amibroker] Re: will need a special CMS data plugin > > > Ok, > i have had a closer look at the data plugin structure of amibroker in > the delivered example i think it is no problem to implement a data > plugin for the MBT SDK i have not read the MBT SDK documentation but > when they deliver a C++ sample it will be really simple i think. > > Regards > Franz >
