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has anyone tried BOTH Ninjatrader (brokerage, not just trading platform) AND Interactive Brokers?

Data feed issues and charting differences aside, did you notice any salient differences with fills/executions/slippage trading futures (ES/ZB)?

Thanks!


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has anyone tried BOTH Ninjatrader (brokerage, not just trading platform) AND Interactive Brokers?

Data feed issues and charting differences aside, did you notice any salient differences with fills/executions/slippage trading futures (ES/ZB)?

Thanks!

A typical retail trader with a typical futures broker will notice no difference in fills. This is futures after all, not forex, and is a regulated central marketplace.

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Doesn't Interactive Brokers use simulated stops in futures? In other words, they keep the stop working on their servers and once the trigger price trades, they then send the order as a market order into the market place?

Compared to a broker that puts the order directly into the exchange, the fills can be very different in the event of a dramatic market event (for example, the Swiss Central Bank decides to end its peg with the Euro).

You can see more at: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Ftrading%2FusFuturesStopOrder.php
See also: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Ftrading%2Forders%2Fstop.php


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Doesn't Interactive Brokers use simulated stops in futures? In other words, they keep the stop working on their servers and once the trigger price trades, they then send the order as a market order into the market place?

Compared to a broker that puts the order directly into the exchange, the fills can be very different in the event of a dramatic market event (for example, the Swiss Central Bank decides to end its peg with the Euro).

You can see more at: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Ftrading%2FusFuturesStopOrder.php
See also: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Ftrading%2Forders%2Fstop.php

It depends on the exchange and product so you have to specify which product and the exchange. If the exchange allows a type of order to be native, then its native. If not, then it can be simulated. Here is a link to the order types allowed by the EUREX as an example.
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Ftrading%2Fexchanges.php%3Fexch%3Ddtb%26amp%3Bshowcategories%3D%26amp%3Bib_entity%3Dllc

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JohnS


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