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Post From: LMAX trading: can I view SC provided futures data and charts?

[2016-05-21 08:53:20]
bootsy - Posts: 63
Hi there,
I currently use Sierra Charts, and your data via my account at Interactive Brokers, to view chart info for a variety of futures products.
This is because I can see volume data, and then use this data to construct volume profiles.

However, I do not trade through my Interactive Brokers account because of their ridiculously high trading fees/commissions (not your problem).
As such, my SC/IB charting is simply that-a (somewhat unwieldy) charting and data package. I actually execute my trades via the spot fx/cfd markets through LMAX at the moment, and this is done manually which as you can imagine is not exactly ideal.

I have found out that I can actually trade through LMAX via SC and am extremely happy to hear this.

However, I am not sure if it is possible to actually do this in reality?

I will need to connect with the futures data from the SC/IB data connection in order to construct volume profile charts etc in SC.
I will then need to also connect with LMAX data in SC. I will trade off their datafeed which connects to their system in order to trade off the spot fx/cfd charts.

Is it possible to do this? Can I have two incoming data connections? If not, is there a workaround i.e. two separate versions of Sierra Charts up and running etc?

Thanks, hope all that makes sense.

Bootsy