Category Archives: HowTo

Select CASH Type the symbol directly with a period divider – for example “EUR.JPY” Exchange is IDEALPRO Tick Increment – look at the price changes in your chart Point Value – always 1 for forex

You can add any symbol with the instructions in the previous posts – http://www.bracket-trader.com/blog/?p=72 http://www.bracket-trader.com/blog/?p=141 Here is another example for sugar. Again, the steps to add a new symbol is first to check the Contract Description in IB Next, check the … Continue reading →

Same as the original post but this time for ZC, etc. 1. Check the contract description in TWS 2. Get the underlying (=symbol), multiplier (=pointvalue) and exchange and enter in the Add Symbol window 3. Make sure the expiry is … Continue reading →

Are you jumping to the conclusion that NYMEX doesn’t work in BT?  The problem most probably is in the expiry. Most futures instruments(like ES) expire on a quarterly basis, but for NYMEX, the expiry is monthly.  For example, at this … Continue reading →

Go to the Tools menu and click Edit Alert Sounds In the pop-up window, click the button with the ellipsis (…) A standard file selector window will pop-up, just select the sound file you want to use.  You can also … Continue reading →

To add a new symbol, you need to know 4 items – symbol, exchange, tick increment and point value. First add the symbol first in TWS (example using SI) 1.  the Underlying is the symbol – symbol is SI 2. … Continue reading →

In the expiry box in the main window, just overtype the old expiry with the new expiry.  The format is the same – yyyymm. When to change – actual expiry date is the 3rd Friday of March, June, September and … Continue reading →

is the “Enable API and Socket Clients” option in TWS checked? is your firewall is blocking BT? is the port number in BT  the same as the port number in TWS (default is 7496 if you did not change anything) … Continue reading →