Conditions on number of trades, reversing trade direction
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My original response would have been a different one and all can can say now is :
When in trial mode, the data would indeed be based on IB’s data (thank you Roberto). There should not be a difference between V11 and V12 … BUT :
Ever back I heard (from Support) that the database would be different (as in overhauled) which should be an improvement over V11 because of more possibilities (in to this topic unrelated areas AFAIK). Also, I may expect differences in the “under 1 minute” timeframes because of the knowledge that PRT-IB (PRT-IG the same ??) has no database for “seconds” which is a huge lacking. IOW, you may expect differences with “seconds” TimeFrames (this is also 150 seconds and more which can not be divided by 1 minute) … but this is all maybe not what you experience. And, if it is about points difference, look at the example below for Nasdaq vs Nasdaq where left is IG with CDFs and right is IB with real Futures. An easy difference of 35 points.
Now please notice that it is IB with the real data (right) and IG with derived data. Now ask yourself what you compare with.
Do notice that in your own chart you can look for the same time and compare points (the price level). You can see the time scale at the bottom. Is yours – from V12 – the same ? then your other source could be “IG-like” and it is “created”/fake.
The IB data is real, even when it would be CFDs (like Fx stuff).My original response was about IB Demo (Papertrading) and how that does not compare at all to Live or Paper of IG these days. But I now think this is not the source of your issues, although I would describe that as a mess, literally.
Please notice that Live Autotrading with IB is not possible (yet). That would require IG …1 user thanked author for this post.
This is the THIRD incarnation of an attempt of a post which would make sense. The other two were much longer. This one sticks to this only :
How on earth is a Stop shown (the StopLong variable) at the price of 3,772.25000 while the price at that moment is 3,773.50 which is higher ??
Only when you have a command like this :
1GraphOnbPrice 3,772.25000 as "StopLong"such a thing could happen.
The Up and Down blue arrows also are not consistent (I have never seen that kind of inconsistency)
Can you please tell (again) : is this from PRT-IB ? If so, ditch it. As I told or implied, it is unworkable. What I did not tell is that this is all in the area of pending orders (Limit and Stop). That it could show a graph like I just wondered about (the StopLong lower price showing higher than the price – or am I blind ?) is something I never saw but also still can’t imagine.
PS: I don’t think there is a seconds (TF) issue in IG other than in IB. It would be true that the backtesting data in IG is “less” into history (less bars). IG is just a mess regarding the amount of history and all regarding “seconds” is just way too few of it. And Yes that imposes a problem with backtesting. So much so that you better apply trickery that allows backtesting with 1minute TF and later inject parts with seconds (Multi TF) which don’t require backtesting any more.
Please do remember that AutoTrading with IB does not work anyway, and if you ask me it is a year or more away from us (more than countless anomalies – I would not know where to begin to describe them – many related to the way IB works vs IG, while all has been made for IG (‘s possibilities)).1 user thanked author for this post.
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