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i think you would need two brokers. one for spot and one for futures. they are entirely different beasts. not sure about which retail platforms combine this. i dont use retail software.
I hate metatrader with a passion, it has crashed 3x in 2 months removing 2 days work of trendlines and zones in the process. I cant risk my livelyhood on a platform that is so unstable and heavy on the cpu, I have a new i5 computer and it sounds like its about to takoff and fly away.
It is possible you have a bad indicator or plugin that is overloading the platform? Might be worth investigating before having to jump into a whole new platform. In my experience a new platform jump introduces loads of new (and unseen) problems that will take time to test and iron out.
The slowing down is an indicator issue, but I know plenty people that use the same setup as me and have no problems, I've even tried it on 2 different brokers. I figure since I want to explore Futures anyway now is a good time to get used to a platform that supports both.
Sierra chart use both FIX protocol and Java/.Net and when you dont use FIX protocol connection minimum deposit is 5000. Sierra chart has also on their site that dont use FIX protocol connection (It is not recommended to use the direct FIX connection that Sierra Chart also supports. This does not support what is described in the above paragraph and has a 300 USD/month fee from LMAX if the monthly minimums are not met with trading volume).
this is from one IB of LMAX regarding api requirements https://fxmtf.com/trading-platforms/api-trading/