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Post From: SC Forex Intraday support for IB

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i960 - Posts: 360
Presently SC knows how to use SC Forex historical data (FXCM) for IB related symbols via: "Optionally enable Support Alternate Forex Historical Data to use Sierra Chart historical Forex data for IB -CASH-IDEALPRO symbols." Meaning that SC knows how to map the symbols back and forth (which is fairly straight-forward given the consistent format). What would be very helpful is the ability to use SC Forex intraday data (already available in Sierra Chart Real Time and Historical Forex and CFD Data Service) for IB symbols. The reason this is more useful than the IB data is because the IB data has bunk volume making it pretty much impossible to use tick/volume charts with IB FX data. The FXCM data is more suitable for this - but the difficulty is that you cannot enter orders from the chart because SC thinks it's trying to trade an FXCM symbol name against the IB data connection, obviously not going to work. It works with historical data because it knows how to map back and forth, but intraday data doesn't have that support. So a situation is I'll have FXCM intraday data to generate tick/volume charts for FX pairs but have no way to easily trade that from a chart because the symbols don't map back.