Connecting interactive brokers to metatrader

this connects IB to metastock

http://www.traderssoft.com/

can we do something like this for metatrader? at least for the charting? that would be great

I wish... they have great spreads and you can trade just about anything.. they provide access via API and there are all kinds of 3rd party apps that access ib... maybe it can be done but no one has wrote the api interface yet.

Guys if you got any information keep me updated as I am using IB as well and I am not happy with their charting at all..It is very primitive...I even asked them if I can extract the historical OHLC & volume data from the platform, they told me that I can't do this.....


Thanks,

Nader

they're using pro-realtime java charts which is pretty basic. as a workaround you could look for a mt4 broker that may have historical data you're looking for. i know alpari do oil, sp500 and some more contracts.

Is anyone using these guys? Im writing my EA's to Them today, to see what i think. Looks good. The API is a pain, as its not Forex specific and very few samples.. We'll see.

http://www.trade-commander.org/twslink/twslink.htm

Here you go guys I think this should work for MT4

Cool DLL, thanks for the link. We are using Raw sockets to do out communications, as its leaner.

I will keep the DLL in my tool belt, as you never know when you might need it..

Hi bobblong
Tks for EXCELENT share!
Do you use with MT4 terminal? any delay?

Best Regards,
Marcelo Marques

Marcelo,

Did you take this link any further in your developments? I've got it working in one of my EAs and apart from 1-2bugs it's doing well. But the only challenge i have is a feed that i take from another bucket shop broker. This feed is few pips above/below IB prices and sometimes it's exactly the same. On top of that, IB transactions are triggered by tick changes coming from the bucket shop broker. Any luck getting the data feed from IB into MT as well?

Thank you
Groovy

Have you tried:

Getting data from tws to MT4, and then using a trade copier?
http://www.tradingsoftwarelab.com/jtwsdata/ to get data and then use http://www.trade-commander.com/mtibb...bbridge_en.htm to copy trades.

Or simply use http://www.mt4-tws.com/mt4tws.html which does both?

All of these have trials available.

I trying option 2 right now with the demo.